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Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse

by Associated Press
| March 26, 2020 2:27 AM

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Igor Smirnov was introduced to opiates the day his first son was born, when he got celebratory drunk and a neighbor injected him with an intoxicating extract of opium poppies.

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