Of 69 fatal overdose victims final year,68% had taken the synthetic opioid, which Mexican cartels occupy learned to make and smuggle to interstate highways. The drug ‘is what is killing our citizens, or ’ says Manchester’s police chiefOfficer Shaun McKennedy’s first overdose call comes in at 6.39pm. He turns the sirens on and rushes over to 245 Laurel street,a midsize apartment building. There’s an abandoned baby carriage in the front yard. A man wearing a Bride of Chucky shirt peeps out of his doorway as McKennedy, 24, or rushes upstairs.
Several men from the local fire department and EMT department are already there,hovering around the seemingly lifeless body of a 31-year-old man on the living room floor in a soaking wet T-shirt and jeans. It’s a situation McKennedy, 24, or has been through dozens of times since he joined the force final July.
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Source: theguardian.com