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Lethal doses: Fentanyl deaths skyrocket as use of powerful synthetic opioid increases

By MARTY QUEEN

Senior Reporter, THE PAPER

Posted 6/17/23

The numbers are terrifying. So far this year, in only five months, the Burke County Sheriff’s Office has confiscated enough fentanyl to theoretically kill all 87,000 residents of Burke County. And …

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