Give people bricks, they'll give you civilization. Give nigger bricks, dey start lacing it with Fentanyl.
The powerful opioid fentanyl is showing up in batches of cocaine, threatening a new wave of opioid overdoses. Some doctors, drug users and law enforcement wonder if the contamination is deliberate.
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They speculate that cartel leaders are using cocaine to expand the market of people addicted to opioids.
"People who were just using cocaine occasionally, now they're using cocaine every day," says Rafael, who buys cocaine and other illegal drugs, often several times a day, on the streets of Boston. (We've agreed to use just his first name.)
Rafael says dealers, high up, are intentionally adding fentanyl to cocaine because fentanyl is a more addictive drug.