America's fentanyl epidemic has gotten so bad that some morgues are running out of room. From 6,000 synthetic opioid deaths in 2015, to a major jump to more than 63,0000 in 2021, fentanyl is the biggest factor. 63,0000?
Coroner’s offices across the country say it’s tough to keep up with the bodies piling up. The Marion County Coroner’s Office in Indianapolis blames drug overdoses in part for their crowded morgue.
At the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel..., more room and resources were needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, COVID-19 deaths have dropped, but the morgues still need that extra space because of all the people fentanyl is killing.
"The most common non-natural death is opioids, it’s more than our number of homicides, more than our number of traffic accidents," said Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar.
Opioid-related deaths in Cook County, Illinois, have increase dramatically in recent years
Opioid-related deaths in Cook County, Illinois, have increase dramatically in recent years (Fox News )
Opioid related deaths in Cook County have nearly tripled from 675 in 2015, to nearly 2,000 last year.
"Most of them were related to fentanyl... These opioid deaths are preventable, all these deaths are preventable," said Dr. Arunkumar.
Chicago-area resident Karen Zander lost her 22-year-old son John Allen to fentanyl poisoning. Zander said in 2016, Allen made the choice to snort cocaine that his best frined spiked with fentanyl, which ultimately killed him.
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