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After several years of steep increases, overdose deaths in Minnesota plateaued in 2022 — but fentanyl-related overdoses continued to keep deaths at a historically high level. Fentanyl is involved in 92% of all opioid-involved deaths and nearly two-thirds of all overdose deaths statewide, according to preliminary data from the Minnesota Department of Health. Fentanyl is 50 times more potent .
The state health department says in 2019, there were 296 fentanyl-involved overdose deaths. Preliminary figures from 2022 show that number has risen to 947.
Data obtained by 5 INVESTIGATES shows that a drug called xylazine is creeping into the local supply at a rate that is alarming law enforcement, doctors, and the Minnesota Department of Health.