Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that is now the primary cause of overdose fatalities. Over 70,000 of the record 107,000 overdoses last year involved the drug, which is up to 50 times more potent than heroin. To put this in perspective, that’s one fentanyl death in the U.S. every seven minutes, or more than all those killed in the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Substance use disorder is often an unexpected trap. It can begin innocently enough, but then quickly lead to dependency. The drug hijacks and rewires the brain, tolerance grows and the desire for ever-stronger substances becomes too great to overcome.