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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows nearly two-thirds of drug overdose deaths nationwide involve synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Drugs in the community are stronger. They are easy to produce and they cost less money.
Experts say lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions made treatment harder to get. Prescription painkillers and fentanyl are driving the opioid epidemic. A Gundersen Health System physician doesn’t expect overdose deaths to drop anytime soon. “I think it is going to take some time. I don’t think this is going to be a quick, next year we are going to be back to below where we were 2019 numbers. I think it is going to take a couple years,” said Dr. Chris Eberlein, an emergency medicine physician at Gundersen Health System. In La Crosse County, there have been 11 confirmed and another n...