Former drug-user turned councillor Jaan Vaart, sits inside the staff room at the Convictus drug rehabilitation center in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday, June 27, 2019. After Fentanyl, "Heroin was like injecting water," he said. (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.