Another Circle Of Hell: Surviving Opioids In The Fentanyl Era

(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News)

There’s a clear culprit in the rising drug overdose death count in Massachusetts — the synthetic opioid fentanyl. More powerful and more deadly than heroin, fentanyl has sparked a new set of survival rules among people who abuse opioids.  Continue reading article here…

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