One thing I do want to highlight is that, despite the large differences in deaths across states, there's no evidence to suggest that there's differences in use, what we think is happening is that the heroin just continues to get more and more potent in the eastern United States, whereas heroin [ in ] the western United States has traditionally been this brown tar heroin. It's much harder to lace with fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.

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