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How Did Fentanyl Go From Saving to Taking Lives?

Amy Sterling Casil
12 min readJan 12, 2019

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Unlike the myth of the “crack baby,” fentanyl’s danger is real and documented exhaustively in communities across the United States. No one needs statistics to know something’s wrong when ERs see more than a dozen overdoses a night and wealthy, famous people like Prince and Tom Petty are killed.

You might be thinking both musical geniuses died with a needle in their arm like the…

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Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.