‘Gray death’ creeping into border city
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Jul 16, 2024 / 05:59 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 16, 2024 / 05:59 PM CDT
Drug users being offered ‘concrete,’ a potentially deadly mix of heroin, fentanyl and the elephant tranquilizer carfentanyl
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Cocaine was everywhere when Mindy Portillo hit the club scene in El Paso 20 years ago.
“It was straightforward (to get). I would meet people, and it would just happen – just like that,” the former drug user said.
Two decades later, Mindy Portillo, once a drug user in the El Paso club scene, has transformed into a rehab coach at Aliviane Substance Use Treatment and Support Center. She is now on the front lines of the fight against the fentanyl epidemic.
Her clients, real people with real lives, are coming across fentanyl in pills they thought were brand-name painkillers or mixed in with their heroin or its residue-tainting marijuana pressed by cartels on the same tables they use chemicals to produce fentanyl.
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