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He tried to save a friend. They charged him with murder

By Eli Saslow
New York Times·
17 mins to read

They bought $30 worth of fentanyl before making it into rehab. One overdosed. The other was charged in his death.

Josh Askins woke up in the crawl space of an abandoned house with nausea, chills and a shooting pain in his legs. It had been seven hours since he last smoked fentanyl, and already he could feel his withdrawal symptoms worsening by the minute. He rolled over in his sleeping bag and stared at the graffiti he had carved into

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