<div><p>There's an epidemic sweeping North America and it's claiming thousands of lives. </p><p>The <a href="https://www.shared.com/changing-tables-could-be-exposing-your-baby-to-a-lethal-drug/">fentanyl </a>crisis seems to grow every single day, whether it's through accidental overdoses or intentionally using this fatal drug. </p><p>Fentanyl is a synthetic drug 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. It's been laced into other street drugs which is causing too many unnecessary deaths, especially among teenagers. </p><p>A sad image was posted by Superintendent Michelle Davey of the Vancouver Police Department in Canada, and it's gaining attention all over the continent. </p><p>The image Davey posted shows how it's not just humans being affected by this drug epidemic. </p><div><amp-twitter height="472" width="375" layout="responsive" data-tweetid="859855254287810560"></amp-twitter></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>That's right. A bird is using discarded needles as a nest, and it's heart-breaking. </p><p>In Vancouver alone there have been 126 overdose deaths this year, and almost 1,000 in British Columbia. </p><p>Thought Supt. Davey admits there's no way to prove that someone else didn't plant those eggs there, it's still a gut-wrenching image showing the true gravity of the situation. </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>