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Sharon Grigsby

Column: Narcan saved her six times from a fentanyl death. Why today won’t be the seventh

Fentanyl was 26-year-old Bree Dobbins’ drug of choice.

Unlike other North Texans killed by counterfeit pills they didn’t know were laced with the cheap and lethal synthetic opioid, Bree knew exactly what she was snorting.

“I go to extremes,” she said as we sat in her sober-living house in Plano, Texas. “I built up a tolerance to it, and I was always chasing to get to that feeling of euphoria that I had earlier in my using.”

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