A new report by the County Department of Public Health has laid bare the bleak state of the fentanyl crisis, with the number of fatal overdoses recorded sky-rocketing by 1,280% in just five years.Los Angeles officials briefed the public Tuesday about the new numbers, which have soared 13-fold from 109 deaths linked to fentanyl in 2016, to 1,504 in 2021.Juli Shamash, a Los Angeles mother and advocate, who lost her 19-year-old son Tyler to a fentanyl overdose in 2018, told the crowd that the drug 'is killing everyone and anyone.'
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