Hard on the heels of the successful war against the designer drug flakka, an opioid epidemic is gripping Broward County.
Last year, opioids killed 582 people, almost two a day, in Broward. Craig Mallack, the county’s chief medical examiner, says that figure will likely exceed 1,000 in 2017.
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