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Fentanyl Suspected In 75 Indiana, Ohio Drug Overdoses

By Crime and Justice News | August 25, 2016
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Officials suspect heroin was laced with fentanyl, the synthetic opioid painkiller used to treat surgery patients. Another overdose cluster happened in West Virginia last week . . .

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