A Colorado district attorney on how fentanyl is affecting her city

Published October 14, 2022 at 11:45 AM CDT

Glassine pouches of confirmed fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory Oct. 8, 2019 in New York (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)

More than 900 people in Colorado died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021. Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Denver District Attorney Beth McCann about the cases she’s seeing related to fentanyl in her city.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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