DEATH TOLL RISES FROM POWERFUL DRUG COCKTAIL

DETROIT: Three more people in Wayne County have died from what
authorities suspect is a combination of heroin or cocaine and
fentanyl, a prescription painkiller.

The deaths, which occurred Friday night or Saturday morning, bring
the county's total of overdose deaths believed to have been caused by
the mixture to 44 since May 18. In New Jersey, where officials first
raised the alarm about the drug in April, there have been about 10
confirmed fentanyl deaths and another 10 to 20 suspected cases since
last month, according to the state's poison control center.