[AnotherUnixGeek]

What effect does Fentanyl have on a person? Why are they taking it?

It's an opiate - it was originally created for pain relief (typically in hospital patients after surgery), but it also causes feelings of euphoria, like all opiates. Fentanyl is vastly stronger than morphine. On any given day, many people taking it are doing so because fentanyl is strongly addictive. Some addicts may have started on it because it was prescribed for them by a doctor (as Oxycontin, another opiate, was originally prescribed for Rush Limbaugh). Other users are heroin addicts who get a similar high from Fentanyl.

[grumpygresh]

The CDC miscoded illicit fentanyl deaths as prescription fentanyl deaths and vastly overestimated the prescription opioid ODs. This was manipulation of death stats much like Covid.
As a result, most of the pain clinics in CA were shut down. But shutting down the pain clinics and putting doctors in prison has only led to a massive increase in demand for illicit opioid and more OD deaths.

Most of the public was stupid, still is and bought the government narrative that prescription opioids caused the ODs.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40122-021-00254-z

“ The error was traced to miscoding of illicitly manufactured fentanyl as prescribed fentanyl, using defined T-codes of the International Classification of Diseases.”

“Multiple studies show that death certificate errors are common, especially in drug overdose cases in which preliminary death certificates are often issued before postmortem toxicology results are known [5,6,7,8,9,10]. Dr. Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch of the NCHS, acknowledges that between 20 and 30% of death certificates received by the NCHS are incorrect [11].”