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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rhian Lubin

Deadly new ‘fake fentanyl’ overdose took her teen’s life. Now this mom is fighting back

On Christmas Eve, Malisa Hepner hung up a stocking for her 18-year-old son, Jake Scoufos, as she’d done every year for each of her three children, and left his carefully wrapped gifts beneath the tree.

The Oklahoma mom had been looking forward to the holidays, but 11 days earlier, things had taken a tragic turn when she discovered Jake dead in his bed from a drug overdose.

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