“I’ve seen a lot of terrible drugs. This is the worst.” In cities like Milwaukee, fentanyl is increasingly a crisis in heavily Black and Latino neighborhoods.
Glenda O. Hampton, executive director of Gateway to Change, a drug treatment center in Milwaukee, at her desk on Dec. 1, 2022.
In cities like Milwaukee, fentanyl is increasingly a crisis in heavily Black and Latino neighborhoods. It is spreading within communities that are already straining under the weight of poverty, disinvestment and violent crime, and are now struggling to control a drug whose reach grows every year. Rodney Hill, a 62-year-old Milwaukee resident, said he encountered fentanyl for the first time in 2021 while smoking what he thought was cocaine.
Drug dealers who sell fentanyl routinely cut it into other substances like cocaine or marijuana, but with little idea of how much fentanyl ends up in the final product. The Drug Enforcement Administration said in November that fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills were increasing in their lethality, and that 6 of 10 pills analyzed by the agency this year contained a potentially fatal dose of fentanyl. “It remains the deadliest drug threat facing the U.S.,” the agency said in a statement.
She has channeled her energies into her work at Gateway to Change, where she is the clinical director and counsels people who are fighting addiction. “It’s so easily synthesized, it’s so easily obtained,” she said. “You don’t need to cultivate a plant to get it like you needed to with heroin.When drug-related deaths are reported in Milwaukee, she said, the people who have succumbed are typically found at home, sometimes with a needle in their arm or a tourniquet in place — a reflection of the drug’s fast-acting potency.
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