Here's what The Flash actor Logan Williams died from - Looper

Fentanyl is a rarely-prescribed, powerful opioid typically used for end-of-life cancer pain, and is a Schedule II substance in the United States. Williams' mother states in her interview that her son first began smoking marijuana at 13 before escalating to much more dangerous drugs, though she says she is not sure when he may have become addicted to fentanyl. There's no way to know for sure, but typically, opioid overdoses due to fentanyl are actually because it has been added to another, more common illegal substance without the user's knowledge.

Fentanyl has gained a lot of popularity in illegal markets as a cutting agent, which are additional substances added to mass quantities of drugs like heroin or cocaine to stretch supply and increase potency. It takes very little fentanyl, proportionately, to kill grown adults, and this is limited still further when the victim is as young as Williams was. It's entirely possible he never had any idea it had been in there to begin with, and that tragedy has been unfolding in increasing numbers in the U.S. and Canada at an upsetting pace. The problem has become so profound, the pharmacological industry at large has had to debate what to do about restricting access to fentanyl even more severely. It is also part of the rationale driving the lobby to increase access to naloxone, a drug that can instantly reverse opioid overdoses, to the general populace and save lives when unexpected overdoses arise. 

For her own part in this ongoing social struggle, Williams' mother says that she eventually wants to act to increase awareness about opioid overdoses in the hopes that one less mother will have to suffer the loss she has.

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