It’s no secret that Baltimore has a heroin problem, but especially dangerous has been the even deadlier fentanyl-heroin combination that police have linked to 39 drug-related deaths so far this year. That outpaces last year’s numbers by nearly a factor of three, the Baltimore Sun reports.
To fight the overdose rate, the Baltimore health commissioner is launching a campaign to educate the city’s drug users on what I guess could be could called relatively safer heroin practices, including how to potentially identify fentanyl-laced heroin.
This problem isn’t confined to Baltimore. Fentanyl has been increasingly present in heroin overdose deaths across the country.
As they say. Pick your poison.