Estonia beat fentanyl, then lost to stronger drugs

Estonia is the one country that can say it beat fentanyl. By 2018, its overdose deaths had fallen more than 70 percent after fifteen years of raids, new laws, and dismantled labs. Then something worse arrived. Reporting for The New York Times, in a story carried by the Seattle Times, Azam Ahmed finds a chief organized-crime prosecutor who now says, "We wish we still had a fentanyl problem." — Read the rest

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