Opioid fatalities – driven by synthetics such as fentanyl – in the state were up 80% last year compared with 2018 and punishing heat is making things worse
ndy Brack was out cold with his head slumped back on the driver’s seat of a white pickup truck, a faint blue tinge around his lips. His friend, Ellen, had called 911 after the 50-year-old lost consciousness while driving to the store.
Just over half were aged between 25 and 44, while 6% were over 75 years old. Overall, 93% survived, at least on that occasion. “It’s terrifying. We are talking about a tidal wave of drugs coming into Arizona and then being repackaged and shipped throughout the United States,”Mexico is currently the dominant source for drugs manufactured in clandestine labs using easy-to-purchase precursors from China. The vast majority of the drugs enter overland across the southern border, after which the pills are often moved by regular postal and courier services.
Earlier this month, police arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly selling fentanyl and meth to homeless people around a shelter in downtown Phoenix after an undercover operation.was charged with seven felony offences after police found about 14,000 pills in his possession .
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