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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, overdose deaths involving opioids increased from 70,000 in 2020 to 80,000 in 2021. Though there have been billions paid out to victims of the American opioid crisis due to misleading advertising and aggressive sales tactics, few steps have been taken to curb the effect. A recent SciTechDaily article discussed a new fentanyl vaccine that could be a game changer in the epidemic. The vaccine was developed at the University of Houston, and it essentially blocks the synthetic opioid from entering the brain and causing a high.
