Spurned by physicians, more users seem to be turning to street drugs that contain fentanyl and similar substances. Fatal drug overdose deaths in the United States rose by 12% from 2016 to 2017. And illicit synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are linked to an estimated 60% of opioid-related deaths. Visit www.mdedge.com for more details.
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Kevin Simmers is a former police sergeant in Hagerstown, Maryland. During his tenure as a narcotics officer, he vehemently pursued drug arrests. “I believed my entire life that incarceration was the answer to this drug war,” Simmers says in a new documentary from The Atlantic. Then his 18-year-old daughter, Brooke, became addicted to opioid pain pills.
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