Why you should watch 'Saving a Generation: The Fentanyl Crisis'

(KGPE/NEXSTAR) — The impacts of the opioid epidemic and the emergence of synthetic opioids are hard to overstate.

The National Institute connected Drug Abuse shows nationwide overdose deaths involving fentanyl and different synthetic opioids vastly outpacing each different cause categories for astir a decade, with a pronounced spike appearing implicit the past 5 years.

The illustration beneath shows U.S. overdose deaths by cause class betwixt 1999 and 2022, courtesy of the National Institute connected Drug Abuse.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration present says 70% of illicit drugs seized connected the streets are laced with fentanyl. 

But the numbers archer lone a tiny portion of the story. In "Saving a Generation: The Fentanyl Crisis," reporters from Nexstar's web of tv newsrooms research the existent stories of grief and loss, and look astatine the enactment being done to prevention the adjacent procreation of children crossed the state from falling unfortunate to the deadly drug.

In our coverage, grieving parents summon the courageousness to connection warnings for families who judge the situation can't scope them. A newsman goes wrong the DEA installation wherever deadly drugs are pulled disconnected the streets and cataloged for transgression cases. We besides look astatine the tools disposable to observe the cause circulating connected American streets.

You tin ticker "Saving a Generation: The Fentanyl Crisis" connected CBS47 astatine 9 p.m. connected The afloat peculiar tin besides beryllium viewed successful the subordinate astatine the apical of this page.