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Addicted to fentanyl: how a drug from China is fuelling America’s opioid crisis | South China Morning Post

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Overdoses linked to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, killed nearly 30,000 people in the United States in 2017. Authorities say most fentanyl sold in the state of Pennsylvania can be traced back to China. We spoke to Anja Lesniak, a 21-year-old woman living in an area considered a “ground z…

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