The drug disaster in photos around the country

Zombie Nation: Harrowing images lay bare the crippling drug crisis ravaging America's communities - stretching from the Pacific Northwest to Massachusetts and from Louisiana to Philadelphia

• Lethal drugs including fentanyl and 'tranq' are driving an unprecedented overdose epidemic 
• There were 107,622 drug overdose deaths in 2021, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the year prior 
• But stats can't convey the devastation in American streets - we document the unprecedented suffering