[readthenotes1]

That was well after both, meth by decades, fentanyl by years

[sokoloff]

Indeed. Breaking Bad launched in 2008 and the meth problem was long-established before that.

[cyberax]

Not quite. Fentanyl and meth existed, but they were not nearly as available.

You can see the results of this: https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/2023-Drug-od... (from https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd... ).

You can see that modern fentanyl is very different from previous iterations of drugs.