
A deadly batch of cocaine circulating in Argentina appears to have been laced with a synthetic opioid and police are scrambling to get as much of it off the streets as they can.
So far, health authorities say 20 people have died from the contaminated cocaine, and another 84 have been hospitalized, some of whom remain on life-saving respiratory support. The victims were mostly young Argentines from poor neighborhoods of the nation's capital, Buenos Aires