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Welcome back to the podcast.

I'm joined with Amir Abouchai.

We are going to be talking about fentanyl and designer drugs today, and why this is so,

so important for mental health providers, for people, for the general public to understand

that this is a big issue.

This is becoming probably the biggest epidemic of deaths of new increased fatalities

that we have had in the U.S. since like maybe the last plague hundreds of years ago.

And the fatality rate has gone up from way below car accidents, how many people per year

die of car accidents.

Now it's above the fatality for car accidents, for accidental deaths.

It's above suicide rate, opiate deaths, and fentanyl is one of the leading causes of this.

Mental is, it is like morphine or heroin, it's an opiate, it acts on the immune receptors.

And so today with Amir, we're going to go through a little bit of the history.

I had Amir dig into the pharmacology.

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