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Dusk falls over Estonia's medieval capital, Tallinn, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The small Baltic nation spent more than a decade fighting fentanyl drug abuse. Although police won the war on fentanyl the market shifted further to synthetic drugs. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

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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.