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The last high, Daniel Kalla

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The last high

Daniel Kalla

Dr Julie Rees is working in the ER in downtown Vancouver when calls of an emergency come in - five teenagers have overdosed. Three died at the scene, two are in cardiac arrest and on their way to the hospital. It's a race against time to try and save them, one that seems impossible to win. As Julie unpicks the harrowing events, she sees the unlikelihood of the kids' deaths. How could they have all overdosed at once? How were none of them able to help each other? The answer is obvious - they must have died within seconds of each other. But how? The bloodwork from the patients confirms Julie's worst fears - they were poisoned by an ultra-potent strand of the opioid fentanyl. When more and more people die from the same thing, the deaths begin to look deliberate, targetted - and the drugs are still out there, while the body count rises