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Opinion: War on fentanyl is worth fighting

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Austin Mardon , PhD , has the Order of Canada and is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta .

Mardon : Fentanyl has such a scary reputation, but what we know isn’t always reality.

He says his adopted son had an overdose in the ER and received last rites; he survived.

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44

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33

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48

Article tone

informal

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English

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22

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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