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So what exactly is fentanyl? It’s an extremely powerful opiate, on the scale of 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. It works on the opiate receptor in the brain, the same as morphine or heroin. This drug once only found in hospital settings has now found its way to the street with deadly consequences.
Almost everyone realizes we as a country, actually we as a planet, are in the midst of an opiate epidemic. How we got here is a story of both misguided good intentions, and outright deception rooted in greed. The Netflix four part series The Pharmacist explores the beginning of the opiate epidemic in the US by telling one individual’s story while tying into broader events from the country as a whole.
