# opioid-válság

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 23, 2016, bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, in New York City. - Fentanyl-related tragedies have become commonplace in the United States, where, according to the government, fentanyl and other synthetic, or man-made, opioids killed 32,000 people in 2018. Until now, Europe has managed to avoid a crisis of this scale, but police and experts warn that the continent could yet be hit. (Photo by Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)