Saturday, June 24, 2006

City's most perilous drug: Fentanyl / Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 June 2006

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KITTY CAPARELLA
"It's deadly. The push of a syringe is like pulling a trigger. Drug dealers are using the expression 'Wit' or wit'out,' to ask customers whether they want illicit heroin - or cocaine - with or without fentanyl, a synthetic opiate 40 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. 'It's deadly. The push of a syringe is like pulling a trigger,' said U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan, of the fatal drug mixture that has led to as many as 70 deaths and up to 220 overdoses in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area since April."