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DATE: SUNDAY, February 3, 1991                   TAG: 9102030292
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

DEATHS IN THREE STATES BLAMED ON HEROIN FORM

Officials on Saturday blamed a potent "designer" form of heroin for the deaths of seven people in three states.

Three people died in New York, three in New Jersey and one in Connecticut. About 100 people were treated at hospitals in those states, a health official said.

Preliminary tests indicate the heroin was laced with another drug, methyl fentanyl, which makes heroin 27 times more potent, Myers said.

- Associated Press 


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