Estonia beat fentanyl, then lost to stronger drugs

Boing Boing highlights a striking reversal out of Estonia, the small Baltic nation often cited as the one country that beat fentanyl. After fifteen years of raids, new laws, and dismantled labs, its overdose deaths had fallen more than seventy percent by twenty eighteen. But then something worse moved in. In reporting for The New York Times, carried by the Seattle Times, Azam Ahmed quotes a chief organized-crime prosecutor who now says, we wish we still had a fentanyl problem, as newer and stronger drugs fill the void.

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