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The Greenville Police Department (South Carolina) has concluded its investigation into the death of actress Hayden Panettiere, who died in August at the age of 36, and ruled her death an accidental drug overdose. The medical examiner previously named fentanyl, Xanax and other substances as the cause.
Aziz KarimovBBC correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports from Ohio and Illinois: the US drug market is increasingly filled with synthetic substances — fentanyl, xylazine, medetomidine and synthetic cannabinoids, mixed in basements and bathrooms. Overdose deaths have fallen from the 2022 peak (110,000) to about 70,000 last year, but the crisis is changing shape: stimulants are laced with opioids, naloxone does not work against new sedative substances, and in Cook County jail drugs are delivered in paper.
Aziz Karimov