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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erin McCormick

Hollywood high school student dies after taking fentanyl-laced pill in apparent string of overdoses

Bernstein high school in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Bernstein high school in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP

A teenage girl at a Hollywood high school died on Tuesday and another was hospitalized, after taking what police believe were counterfeit pills filled with fentanyl.

The incident, which is being investigated as a homicide by Los Angeles police, comes as federal officials announced new national counts of overdose deaths, showing nearly 200 people in the US are dying each day due to overdoses of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.

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