
Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)
Rationally Speaking Podcast
The Story of Fentanyl
At the end of the crack epidemic, African American communities decided that had enough of drugs and were much less susceptible for a while. The story is that fentanyl got into the supply so illegal you know dealers who were illegally dealing heroin and cocaine were putting fentanyl into the supply in order to make it more powerful. And so sometimes people would die because they didn't know what they were using.
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