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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Geoff Mulvihill

As fentanyl drives overdose deaths, mistaken beliefs persist

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020.

The pills were fake and contained fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as the same amount of heroin. It killed them both.

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