Durham Drug Crisis
Durham Drug Crisis: Fentanyl Is Killing North Carolinians and Nobody's Talking About It The Silent Killer in Every North Carolina Community Fentanyl is killing North Carolinians at an alarming rate, and The North Carolina Beat is done watching politicians and media outlets tiptoe around this crisis. Durham, like every other major NC city, is losing residents to overdoses daily—but you wouldn't know it from the sanitized news coverage and political rhetoric. Durham's Overdose Reality Bull City has been hit particularly hard by the opioid crisis. Emergency responders carry Narcan as standard equipment because overdose calls are that common. Durham County EMS personnel have described the frustration of reviving the same individuals multiple times, knowing that without treatment and support, the next overdose might be fatal. The crisis affects every demographic. Teenagers experimenting with pills they think are Xanax or Percocet end up dead from fentanyl poisoning. Middle-age...