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How it got here
Authorities believe illicit fentanyl moved from an illegal lab in Mexico through Chicago, to Detroit and points beyond. Click here to see its path.
Story chapters
• INDEX
• PROLOGUE
• CHAPTER 1: The teenager
• CHAPTER 2: The chemist
• CHAPTER 3: The drug
• CHAPTER 4: The hooker
• CHAPTER 5: The sigh
• CHAPTER 6: The prison
• CHAPTER 7: The scientist
• CHAPTER 8: The morgue
• CHAPTER 9: The trail
• CHAPTER 10: The dead
• CHAPTER 11: The lab
• CHAPTER 12: The lie
• CHAPTER 13: The truth
• CHAPTER 14: The reckoning
• CHAPTER 15: The requiem
• EPILOGUE
• A father's story
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June 24, 2007
BY JIM SCHAEFER and JOE SWICKARD
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
Death moved east.
By April 2006, emergency workers in Philadelphia, Camden, N.J., and Delaware were swamped with overdoses. Heroin laced with fentanyl and sold as Al Capone, Flatline, Rest in Peace, Rolex and Exorcist was dropping addicts everywhere.
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""Today, when we give people Narcan, they're not coming out of it,"" Philadelphia Fire Capt. Richard Bossert said.
""We had no idea what we were getting into.""
Across the river, New Jersey was also counting dead bodies and, as in Philadelphia, addicts died with needles in their arms, unused dope still in the syringe. Emergency responders were handling 60 overdoses a day, compared with the usual 10 cases.
Minutes after New Jersey health officials posted the jump in overdose deaths in an Internet alert, an official from Maryland called: People were dying there, too.
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