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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A strain of fentanyl that’s resistant to Narcan has made its way to Western Pennsylvania.  It’s hundreds of times more powerful than morphine and is already causing overdose deaths. (CBS Pittsburgh, 28.04.2…

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Every nation in the United Kingdom saw increased drug misuse deaths between 2013 or 2014 and 2015. In raw numbers, in proportion to the general population, and probably too in proportion to the number of problem drug users, the increases ended at re…