The opioid crisis should now be called "The Heroin & Fentanyl Crisis". Fentanyl up 1300 % and Heroin up 650 % over the last ten years. Soon millions of deaths.

IMPT message to the White House:

It seems that the White House believes the reports saying that the prescription of opioids have decline - that is partly true but instead the overdoses raised by Heroine and Fentanyl have raise quite a lot. Heroin up 650 % and Fentanyl up 1300 %. During the year 2017 there were 47 600 fatalities due to opioids.

The overdoses caused by Heroin and Fentanyl increased immeasurably much – thus, mortality has also done so.

A couple of examples during the year 2007 were the number of ODs 18 516 and the Fentanyl accounted for 2 213 persons = 12 % and Heroin for 2 399, cases, which represented 13%. Totally Heroine and Fentanyl was 25 % of the total numbers of the 18 516 fatalities.

Some figures for the year 2017 are: Fentanyl is 59,8 % and Heroine is 32,5% av the total of 92,3 % That means that the prescription of legal drugs are only 7,7%. These figures are remarkable.

If you compare these two years you find that the use of Fentanyl has risen almost 1300 % - from 2 213 ODs to 28 466 – 2017. The use of Heroin has increased 650 % - from 2 399 ODs to 15 482 ODs. The total increase for both Fentanyl and Heroine is around 260 %.

These figures are completely unimaginable an there are no signs that the lethal poisonings will decrease.