Nearly a decade ago, I was living in a warehouse apartment in a rough Philadelphia neighborhood called Fishtown. One morning my roommate got some bad news: a childhood friend from Hazleton, a former mining town about two hours north of Philly, had died from a drug overdose. But it wasn’t heroin. It was fentanyl, a powerful synthetic painkiller that’s now at the center of a growing national opioid crisis.
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