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Former drug-user turned councillor Jaan Vaart, sits inside the staff room of the Convictus drug rehabilitation center in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday, June 27, 2019. After Fentanyl, "Heroin was like injecting water," he said. The tiny Baltic state has battled nearly two decades a fentanyl epidemic so severe its overdose death rate was almost six times the European average. Although police won the war on fentanyl the market shifted further towards synthetic drugs. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Former drug-user turned councillor Jaan Vaart, sits inside the staff room of the Convictus drug rehabilitation center in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday, June 27, 2019. After Fentanyl, "Heroin was like injecting water," he said. The tiny Baltic state has battled nearly two decades a fentanyl epidemic so severe its overdose death rate was almost six times the European average. Although police won the war on fentanyl the market shifted further towards synthetic drugs. (…

March 26, 2020

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Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse
March 26, 2020 5:17 a.m.

Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Igor Smirnov was introduced to opiates the day his first son was born, when he got celebratory drunk and a neighbor injected him with an intoxicating extract of opium poppies.