MSNBC Profiles Ohio County Hit Hard by Opioid Epidemic

‘Doctors in that morgue are just absolutely exhausted’

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SOBOROFF (voice-over): "Over the past two years fentanyl a synthetic opioid that can be thousands of times stronger than heroin has been flooding into places like here. Montgomery county, Ohio, where the overdose death rate has been sky rocketing. Through just May, overdose deaths in the county almost hit last year's total. And officials estimate this year's final numbers will double that."

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