The US has scrambled to try to get a handle on the widespread misuse of both prescription painkillers and illicit street drugs like heroin and fentanyl .
Congress has passed a slew of bills related to the highly addictive drugs, but the Senate has not taken them up yet and despite President Trump's declaration of pubic health emergency, no additional funding has been allocated to the cause.
Rising overdose death rates are fueled primarily by powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl which many turn to after building tolerance to prescription drugs and heroin.
UK Daily Mail
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