Lucas Hill

director of the Texas Opioid Training Initiative

Lucas Hill on KCRW

The synthetic opioid fentanyl is about 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, and it’s causing a huge increase in overdose deaths, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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