On February 17th of this year, Malvern Treatment Centers posted a news article, ‘Killer Heroin’ Causing Fatal Overdoses in East. Almost exactly three months later, we are here to report again about deaths from fentanyl-laced heroin.
PHILLY.COM – City officials have issued a warning that dangerous heroin laced with the powerful painkiller fentanyl is circulating in Philadelphia.
The drug combo killed at least 28 people between March 3 and April 20, the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability said Monday. The department is awaiting test results on seven more people.
The powerful narcotic, which is meant to treat extreme pain, was implicated in 269 deaths in 2006 in Philadelphia. It killed more than 2,000 people across the country that year…
Roland Lamb, director of the city Office of Addiction Services, said he found the new spike in deaths “very concerning,” and wants to avoid a repeat of the 2006 epidemic…. Lamb said he would encourage people who are using heroin or cocaine because they want to avoid withdrawal symptoms to seek treatment instead.
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