The Providence Journal, March 17, 2015
Illicitly obtained drug accounts for 74% of fatalities, outstripping deaths from prescription painkillers. State health officials on reported that 51 people have died of accidental drug overdoses so far in 2015, with a majority of them involving illegal fentanyl.
Fentanyl blamed for most of R.I.’s 51 overdose deaths so far in 2015
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