By Richard Bammer

The stories have made headlines for several years: A young person bought a pill they thought was Oxycodone, Norco, or similar opioids.

But it wasn’t. It was a counterfeit pill containing fentanyl and that person who had so much more living to do ended up cold, perhaps naked and lying on the coroner’s examination table, leaving behind a grieving family and friends.

“Teens take street pills thinking they’re Oxycodone, Adderall or Xanax,” Robin Cox, bureau chief of Solano County’s Health Promotion & Community Wellness (VibeSolano). “They don’t realize they are counterfeit pills until it’s too late — their first encounter with the counterfeit pill can often be fatal.”

Source: County health leaders issue fentanyl warning – The Vacaville Reporter