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by cyberax 1102 days ago
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.