In 2023, over 107,000 Americans died from overdoses, with fentanyl responsible for more than 75,000 of these deaths—a staggering toll almost double that of car accidents or gun homicides. Fentanyl is increasingly mixed with meth and cocaine, spreading its lethal reach beyond heroin users. Journalist Ben Westhoff, author of Fentanyl, Inc., joins us to explore the crisis and his work advising government leaders on combating this unprecedented epidemic.
