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As fentanyl kills record numbers of Americans, experts see ways to stop its menace

St. Louis on the Air

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The Third Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

This is the third wave of the opioid epidemic, following pain pills like oxicontin and then heroine. You can't find pure heroine almost anywhere in the country; it's all cut with fentinil. Drug drug dealers adulterate not s heroine, but meth, cocaine, and prescription pills. They look just like azanax, just like a percoset, but they actually contain fantinil,. which is much, much stronger and kills people instantly.

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