evidence: When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans woke up to an unprecedented threat scouring communities – and a deepening cultural divide over what to do about it. [...] "We do have fentanyl that’s dangerous, we have xylazine that’s poison," Vincent told NPR. "We’ve had an entire community swept away. I can’t even think of all the people I know who have died. My daughter died. Our mentors are dead. It is so dangerous right now." [...] "We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars, combined," said Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who is now seeking the GOP presidential nomination, speaking to voters in New Hampshire on Dec. 14.