A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APPA record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized over 1.2 million fentanyl pills between two busts on Dec. 29. There, adolescent drug overdose death rates were nearly twice the national average or higher between 2020 and 2022. Original article source: Teen drug overdoses hit record high, driven primarily by fentanyl poisoning, says new report

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