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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
The answer to how often an Ohio driver’s blood or urine sample tested positive for fentanyl used to be “never,” says a crime lab chief at the State Highway Patrol.
But over the past three months, the powerful synthetic opioid — 50 times stronger than morphine and often mixed with heroin — has been detected in about 1 in 20 patrol tests.
“Ten years ago, people would take this stuff and die,” said toxicology director Joseph Jones, who saw his first rash of fentanyl overdose deaths a decade ago in Philadelphia. “And now they’re out there on Ohio roads.”
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170712/more-and-more-ohio-drivers-are-impaired-by-drugs