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Daniel Lajterman of Ramsey, New Jersey died on February 23, 2014 from a drug overdose. He was 19-years old. Before his death, Daniel bought what he believed to be heroin but was fentanyl-laced heroin. Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate painkiller that …
Heroin is easy to get, cheaper than prescription painkillers, and has moved into middle- and upper-middle class neighborhoods. Today’s heroin addict is a white, middle-class. 18-25 year-old. This is the heroin epidemic. This half-hour documentary, Heroin at Home: Rise of …