Concerns grow as fentanyl fuels rise in opioid overdose deaths




PBS NewsHour - Science show

Summary: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999. But amid growing concern over the country’s problem with heroin and prescription opioids, a lesser-known drug in that same group is just as lethal. David Armstrong of STAT joins Hari Sreenivasan from Boston to talk more about the threat posed by fentanyl.