Clarification: US-Fentanyl-Heroin Story

Clarification: US-Fentanyl-Heroin Story
In a story Feb. 16, The Associated Press reported that more than 80 people have died in recent weeks from injecting heroin laced with fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opiate. The number included 25 fentanyl-related deaths in Rhode Island, and the story …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
In the wake of the prescription painkiller epidemic, heroin, much of it Mexican, has wormed its way into unsuspecting communities far from the Southwestern border as a cheaper and often more easily obtained alternative. Ms. Ivy's was believed to be the …
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Heroin ring bust results in 9 arrests
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (WABC) — Nine people have been arrested so far and thousands of packets of heroin have been confiscated. Prosecutors say the drugs were transported from Harlem to Riverhead in Suffolk County. Because of the high quality, the heroin …
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