Drug Cocktails Fuel Massachusetts’ Overdose Crisis

(By – Martha Bebinger, WBUR; Kaiser Health News)

In a brick plaza next to the Chelsea, Massachusetts city hall, Anthony, a bald but still-youthful man in grey sweats, tells me he spent the previous night in the hospital for what he says was his twelfth overdose.

Anthony and other users of illegal drugs agreed to speak to NPR for this story on the condition that we use only their first names. He blames his overdose on what his dealer told him was a particularly strong bag of heroin laced with Fentanyl — or something like it. Read more…

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