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'It's manufactured death'
That's the print title in this morning's newspaper.
Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/fahrenthold
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compiled overdose data from largest cities/counties. 2-year jump in fatal fentanyl overdoses simply jaw-dropping https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/fentanyl-overdoses/ …
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Fentanyl linked to thousands of urban overdose deaths
In two dozen of the nation’s largest cities, fentanyl is becoming a major part of the national opioid crisis
By Nicole Lewis, Emma Ockerman, Joel Achenbach and Wesley Lowery
Aug. 15, 2017
PHILADELPHIA — Art Gutierrez comes to the corner of Kensington Avenue and Somerset Street every morning to buy heroin.
What he’s actually getting in Philadelphia’s notorious open-air drug market is heroin laced with an even more potent additive, often in unpredictable amounts that even antidotes can’t stop from being deadly. That narcotic, increasingly spliced into the nation’s illicit drug supply, is fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller exacerbating heroin’s deadly trap. In cities across America, it is fueling deeper addiction and has become one of the most prominent killers linked to the nation’s drug crisis.
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Law enforcement and public health officials say they are alarmed by the rate at which fentanyl has infiltrated the illicit drug market and how it is transforming the face of the drug crisis, which resulted in 60,000 fatal overdoses in 2016, more than half of which were from opioids.
“If anything can be likened to a weapon of mass destruction in what it can do to a community, it’s fentanyl,” said Michael Ferguson, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England division. “It’s manufactured death.”
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Achenbach reported from Boston and Baltimore. Kevin Sullivan in Miami contributed to this report.
In two dozen of the nation’s largest cities, fentanyl is becoming a major part of the national opioid crisis
By Nicole Lewis, Emma Ockerman, Joel Achenbach and Wesley Lowery
Aug. 15, 2017
PHILADELPHIA — Art Gutierrez comes to the corner of Kensington Avenue and Somerset Street every morning to buy heroin.
What he’s actually getting in Philadelphia’s notorious open-air drug market is heroin laced with an even more potent additive, often in unpredictable amounts that even antidotes can’t stop from being deadly. That narcotic, increasingly spliced into the nation’s illicit drug supply, is fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller exacerbating heroin’s deadly trap. In cities across America, it is fueling deeper addiction and has become one of the most prominent killers linked to the nation’s drug crisis.
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Law enforcement and public health officials say they are alarmed by the rate at which fentanyl has infiltrated the illicit drug market and how it is transforming the face of the drug crisis, which resulted in 60,000 fatal overdoses in 2016, more than half of which were from opioids.
“If anything can be likened to a weapon of mass destruction in what it can do to a community, it’s fentanyl,” said Michael Ferguson, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England division. “It’s manufactured death.”
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Achenbach reported from Boston and Baltimore. Kevin Sullivan in Miami contributed to this report.
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