Fentanyl isn't the only substance killing tens of thousands of Americans

 Jonah M. Kessel, NY Times -  The synthetic opioid fentanyl is killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. It’s a national crisis and deserves our attention. Also killing tens of thousands of Americans every year is alcohol. By the count of the Centers for Disease Control, about 140,000 deaths per year in the United States are the result of injuries or disease caused by alcohol. Only one of these two tragedies has the nation’s attention. The other has been normalized to the point where we seemingly don’t consider more than 100,000 lives lost to a preventable cause a crisis.