Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Baldwin County Coroner Dr. Brian Pierce says a concerning trend has emerged.
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“One case in particular was a 60 something year old heroin addict who, every week, went to Mobile,” he shared. “Well, that one time he bought that eight ball of Heroin, he came back to Baldwin County and he took it, but it wasn’t heroin at all this time. It was 100% fentanyl.” “We’ve recently acquired a Randox multistat analyzer,” said Dr. Pierce. “What that does — it allows us to identify what drugs are in a decedent and give an amount of the drug. So it gives us an opportunity to do surveillance on the decedent to help our law enforcement officers….it’s used across the nation for this very purpose. We may be one of the first Coroner’s offices in the state to utilize this to try to battle the drug problem that we have here.
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