Fentanyl deaths from 'Mexican oxy' pills hit Arizona hard

Friday, February 15, 2019

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico into the Southwest -- a profitable new business for drug gangs that has pushed the synthetic opioid to the top spot for fatal U.S. overdoses.

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