Less-potent fentanyl pills may be playing role in decrease of overdose deaths [Video]

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says that less fentanyl is present in the nation’s illicit pill supply and that is helping drive down overdose deaths in the United States. But experts say that there are limitations to this claim and that many other factors are probably playing a role.About 5 out of every 10 fentanyl pills that the agency tested this year had lethal doses of the synthetic opioid painkiller fentanyl, down from about 7 in 10 last year, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said last week at a summit for families who have lost a loved one to a fentanyl overdose.Federal data also shows that overdose deaths dropped nearly 15% between this June and last. There were about 16,000 fewer lives lost in the most recent 12-month period, according to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and the vast majority of the decrease was in …