Tag: Fentanyl

It eats your teeth, shreds your face and tastes like poison. It’s Meth. And it’s ripping the colors off the Ol’ Red, White and Blue.

Cellphones and heroin have too many addictive similarities to dismiss out of hand. But what are the consequences?

Gone are the days when West Coast heroin addicts could rely upon the (relative) safety of Black Tar. Long gone.

From a drag racing ex-Narc in Baton Rouge and a druggy State Trooper in upstate New York, to the multi-agency Operation Tragic Blow in Chicago, Americans are falling afoul of narcotics in ever increasing numbers. Still.

Akron has a drug problem. A big drug problem. In fact, the city has seen a 140% increase in drug overdose deaths so far this year. Blame Covid. Blame fentanyl. Or blame the still lingering opioid epidemic. Better yet, blame all three. Because it’s undoubtedly all three that are combining to make Akron #1 in the drug death charts.