Fatal opioid overdoses are thought to be costing the US economy $1 trillion each year. In a report published Tuesday by the bipartisan US Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking, it was revealed synthetic opioids - primarily fentanyl - were responsible for almost two out of three reported drug overdose deaths in the US in the 12-month period ending in June 2021.

据美国打击合成阿片贩运委员会2月8日发表的一项报告显示，阿片类药物过量使用致死给美国经济造成每年约1万亿美元的损失。报告显示，在截至2021年6月的一年内，美国的用药过量死亡案例中近三分之二是由合成阿片类药物——主要是芬太尼——造成的。

More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses during that period, an increase of 30 percent from a year earlier.
这一时期内，全美有超过10万人死于用药过量，同比增长30%。

And overdoses have been responsible for more than 1 million deaths in the US since 1999, according to the report - that’s more than double the number caused by firearms or car accidents.
自1999年以来，美国有累计超过100万人死于用药过量，是死于枪支暴力事件或车祸的人数的两倍还多。