Fentanyl, disguised as a Percocet pill, killed Jacob Brodsky, the 21-year-old son of Peter and Lael Brodsky, two years ago. Today, the Dallas couple is...
Jacob Brodsky took a Percocet in his dorm room to help him sleep. The pill, actually fentanyl in disguise, killed him before he reached his bed. “Nobody pays attention,” his mother, Lael, said about fentanyl poisonings. “We probably wouldn’t have paid attention — until it happened to us.”.
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