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This is a transcript of a segment from the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he talks about the rise of overdose deaths in the US due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that contaminates the street drug supply. He criticizes the war on drugs, the media and the police for spreading fear and misinformation about fentanyl, and argues for harm reduction strategies to prevent overdoses and save lives. He advocates for drug checking, naloxone, and overdose prevention centers, and urges the Biden administration to support them. He also makes jokes about grease, blue bloods, chuck e cheese, and oz.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Millions of Americans use illicit drugs.
2. Overdose deaths have risen substantially in the past decade.
3. The CDC estimates over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in a 12-month period ending April of a recent year.
4. Overdose deaths are nearly three times the number of deaths from traffic accidents last year.
5. Overdose deaths are more than twice the number of gun deaths.
6. The illicit drug supply is highly contaminated.
7. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is involved in nearly two-thirds of all overdose deaths in the past year.
8. There is a dangerous lack of consistency in how fentanyl is distributed within the street drug supply.
9. Fentanyl is often found in a contaminated pill supply across the United States.
10. People believe they are taking drugs like oxycodone but are actually ingesting fentanyl.
11. Overdoses often occur when people use drugs alone with no one around to help them.
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