The ongoing opioid epidemic has frequently made the headlines. The news tends to be in general. It looks at specific groups but usually not by age. A recent letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) pointed out that we need to look at it that way. In 2010 there were 518 overdose deaths in adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18. That number remained fairly steady over the next few years. In 2019 there were 492 deaths. However, in 2020 deaths almost doubled to 954. The number increased by an additional 20 percent in 2021. More than 77 percent of the deaths were due to Fentanyl. An additional six percent were due to prescription opioids. And two percent more were due to heroin. Thus 85 percent of all overdose deaths in adolescents were opioid related. It did not appear to be related to more adolescents using drugs. The total number of users was about the same. This meant that the drugs they were using were more likely to be lethal. That is attributed to the decrease in legally prescribed opioids. That decrease led more individuals to look for illegal sources of drugs. Those illegal [...]