The need to escape reality has increased so much that people don’t even need to know of what are made the drugs they take. May it be any kind of pain; people prefer to ignore it by taking drugs that eliminate it from their minds.

From 2005 to 2007 nearly 1,000 people died after taking an overdose of fentanyl, a highly drug used a pain killer. They injected the drug illegally without knowing the effects it may have if it’s used in high doses.

Fentanyl is used especially to treat pain in patients who have cancer. Only one gram of it can be divided into 7,000 doses for dealers on the streets. Its manufacture requires little technology knowledge and its recipe could be found on the internet.

The drug was sold illegally by drug dealers on the streets in the U.S. after it came from Toluca, Mexico, where it had been forbidden by the authorities in May 2006. It seems to have been mixed with cocaine or heroin. There could have been more deaths than the ones registered, which reached the number of 1,013.

There were 349 deaths in Chicago, 269 in Philadelphia and 230 in Detroit, together with the deaths in St. Louis, Missouri, Delaware and New Jersey. Doctors said to have found people who died with the needle in their arm, not finishing the injection because of the powerful drug.

The painkillers represent a big role in the increased number of deaths from an overdose. There were 11, 115 deaths in 1999 and 22,448 in 2005.