Nationwide, overdose deaths among cocaine users, many of them occasional, have nearly tripled in the past five years for which data is available, rising from roughly 5,000 deaths in 2013 to more than 14,000 in 2017. The cause is fentanyl, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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