Expert: Fentanyl crisis has ‘only gotten worse’

Fentanyl-related drug overdoses hit a record in the US of 109,680 deaths in 2022, with several states seeing continued surges. Carl Latkin, vice chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, called this a “massive problem.”

"The crisis is really horrific in terms of numbers,” Latkin told BBC News.