Estończycy uzależnieni od Fentanylu - Redux

Igor, 33 years old is seen in Lasnamae district where drug addicts usually go to inject fentanyl in Tallinn, Estonia on March 20, 2017. Igor has been using fentanyl for about fifteen years. Before becoming a fentanyl dependent Igor was a military of the Estonian army. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid used in medicine as anesthetic. It has been passed off as drug for about fifteen years in the Estonian streets - European Union member country - being tens times more powerful than heroin and about hundred times more powerful than morphine. For this reason fentanyl has completely replaced all other drugs and in Tallinn, the capital of the country, causes about fifteen overdose cases per day, a huge number in a city counting 400.000 inhabitants. Estonia has the highest number of per capita drug fatalities anywhere in Europe. The European deaths average that could be attributed to drug abuse is of 19.2 deaths per 1 million inhabitants. In Estonia instead there are 113 deaths per million inhabitants.