New drug overdose data capture earliest days of fentanyl’s deadly westward expansion
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez
- 25 October 2019
Source: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-10-25/fentanyl-fatal-drug-overdoses-westward-expansion
By MELISSA HEALYSTAFF WRITER
OCT. 25, 2019
A rigorous effort to track U.S. overdose deaths and the drugs that caused them offers a snapshot of a fentanyl epidemic on the cusp of a westward shift.
“We don’t exactly understand why powder doesn’t go out west,” said Bryce Pardo, a Rand Corp. expert on the illicit drug trade. But the fact that it has not may have protected the region, at least temporarily, from fentanyl’s deadly grip, he added.
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