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Inside fentanyl epidemic in California as deadly opioid abuse by young people hits crisis point

Rizzy Spoer began using drugs aged 12. Growing up in San Francisco’s Bay Area, she enjoyed experimenting with as many illicit substances as she could.

It got to a point, she said, where she was “probably going to die”.

In her experience, her story isn’t “uncommon”. Now aged 34, she has lost more than 30 friends to drugs in recent years.

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