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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWave of addiction linked to fentanyl worsens as drugs, distribution, evolve
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wave-of-addiction-linked-to-fentanyl-worsens-as-drugs-distribution-evolve/2017/10/24/5bedbcf0-9c97-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.718068f0cb2c
Michelle MacLeod died in a tough part of town known as the Tree Streets, where many of the streets have names like Ash, Palm, Chestnut and Walnut. Kevin Manchester, who provided the fentanyl that killed her, lived on Pine.
After MacLeods death, Nashua police wired her fiance and recorded him telling Manchester that MacLeod had overdosed and died. Manchester kept selling the powerful synthetic narcotic anyway.
Manchester, 27, went to prison for selling drugs that proved lethal a death-resulting charge that prosecutors are using more frequently as they battle the opioid epidemic.
He had no pause from what he had done, knowing full well he had killed that girl, said Jon DeLena, the assistant special agent in charge in New Hampshire for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. It didnt slow him down at all.
The DEA points to the Manchester case as a victory, but it also highlights the challenges for law enforcement agencies as they seek to curb the spread of fentanyl. Manchester, a small-time dealer who was using his own product, was part of a wave of addiction that has worsened as the drugs have evolved, with fentanyl posing special problems because it is extremely potent, easily transported and highly desired.
Michelle MacLeod died in a tough part of town known as the Tree Streets, where many of the streets have names like Ash, Palm, Chestnut and Walnut. Kevin Manchester, who provided the fentanyl that killed her, lived on Pine.
After MacLeods death, Nashua police wired her fiance and recorded him telling Manchester that MacLeod had overdosed and died. Manchester kept selling the powerful synthetic narcotic anyway.
Manchester, 27, went to prison for selling drugs that proved lethal a death-resulting charge that prosecutors are using more frequently as they battle the opioid epidemic.
He had no pause from what he had done, knowing full well he had killed that girl, said Jon DeLena, the assistant special agent in charge in New Hampshire for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. It didnt slow him down at all.
The DEA points to the Manchester case as a victory, but it also highlights the challenges for law enforcement agencies as they seek to curb the spread of fentanyl. Manchester, a small-time dealer who was using his own product, was part of a wave of addiction that has worsened as the drugs have evolved, with fentanyl posing special problems because it is extremely potent, easily transported and highly desired.
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Wave of addiction linked to fentanyl worsens as drugs, distribution, evolve (Original Post)
IronLionZion
Oct 2017
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madokie
(51,076 posts)1. I remember years ago
a drug got so popular that they were forced to quit making it or selling it here in the states anyway/ Quaalude, hell of a drug
714 was the number
I don't remember it killing people though, may be it did but I just don't remember that