CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper November 29, 2021 22:49:00
Struggled with addiction for ten years. >> this isn't my first time i've been in the program. >> reporter: in and out of a program, overdosing more than once. his death ultimately caused by fentanyl. >> at one point when his girlfriend was asleep, i think that's when he decided he was going to take this dose of what he thought was heroin, but it was a very high level of fentanyl as well. >> and it doesn't take any of it to hardly kill you. >> reporter: fentanyl and synthetic opioids like it accounting for 64% of the record 100,000-plus deadly drug overdoses from april 2020 to april 2021. >> di...