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Fentanyl Crisis as a Poisoning Outbreak

In an LA Times Commentary and Blog Post, RAND authors Beau Kilmer and Bryce Pardo suggest the fentanyl crisis should be viewed as a poisoning outbreak, rather than a drug epidemic. In 2018, two-thirds of opioid overdoses included synthetic opioids such as fentanyl....

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