Mystery of the poison pills


Graphic from Prescription Behavior Surveillance System Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Issue Brief, July 2017 In July 2016, federal investigators arraigned a South Sacramento woman who they claimed was directly connected to the deadly fentanyl outbreak that ended scores of lives across Northern California, including 12 people in Sacramento County. At the time, a spokesperson for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration suggested that the arrest was just the first layer of an investigative onion, with more to be revealed about a spate of overdoses that mystified authorities, shocked public health officials and garnered national attention.



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