Igor Smirnov sits inside a drug rehabilitation center with his councillor in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Smirnov was introduced to opiates the day his son was born, later migrating to a new drug that appeared on the quaint, cobbled streets of the country's capital, Tallinn: Fentanyl. (AP Photo/David Keyton)
March 26, 2020
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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.