Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase. … Lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions isolated those with drug addictions and made treatment harder to get, experts said. … Fentanyl was involved in more than 60% of the overdose deaths last year, CDC data suggests.