In Minnesotans´ opioid abuse, fentanyl is a new factor. A killing factor.
(WorldNews Health)

Jason Roberts knows he’s lucky to be alive. A longtime heroin addict, Roberts overdosed twice on drugs laced with the man-made opioid fentanyl. He’s convinced he’d be dead today if he hadn’t been arrested for aggravated robbery in 2015 and entered an addiction recovery program. “It’s a plague,� Roberts said of fentanyl, which is 50 times more powerful than other pharmaceutical opioids like morphine and is highly addictive. “It’s going to be death, one way or another. Either your soul or your body will die. It’s going to kill you,� he said. Fentanyl killed 20,000 people across the United States in 2016 and was responsible for...