{"id":5501,"date":"2022-10-23T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:06:01","slug":"us-teens-fastest-growing-group-to-die-of-fentanyl-overdoses-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=5501","title":{"rendered":"US teens fastest growing group to die of Fentanyl overdoses: BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LONDON &#8211; More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year &#8212; the vast majority were adults, but the fastest growing group to die of overdoses were teenagers, the BBC has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fentanyl is now increasingly being mass-produced into pills in rainbow colors to mimic prescription pills and target kids who are more willing to experiment with them, BBC said in a recent report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States is an outlier when it comes to overdoses, with a death rate 20 times the global average &#8212; although Scotland is not far behind, said the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are far and away the world leader in overdose death, unfortunately,&#8221; the report cited Joseph Friedman, a substance use researcher at the University of California Los Angeles, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overdose rate among school-aged children in the United States doubled between 2019 and 2020 and then rose a further 20 percent last year, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year &#8212; the vast majority were adults, but the fastest growing group to die of overdoses were teenagers, the BBC has reported. Fentanyl is now increasingly being mass-produced into pills in rainbow colors to mimic prescription pills and target kids who are more willing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-block-of-4","category-media","category-technology","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}