California could get some relief for its rising overdose deaths as the Biden administration moves to better control the opioid epidemic.
More than 100,000 Americans died of overdoses in the year between April 2020 and 2021, according to the National Center for Health Statistics — the highest year on record and a jump of almost 30% from the prior year.
Synthetic opioids — primarily fentanyl — caused two-thirds of those deaths.
