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Ashley Delgado
Coverage of Ashley Delgado in the Nexus archive.
- Super-potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes are spreading across the U.S.
Super-potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes are spreading across the U.S. Ashley Delgado, who had high academic achievements and dreams of becoming a doctor, developed an addiction starting with OxyContin in her mid-20s, progressing through methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl.
- Super-Potent Synthetic Opioids Spread Across US Amid Fentanyl Crackdown
Ashley Delgado died in 2023 from an overdose involving nitazenes, synthetic opioids up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl. These drugs, often laced into other substances, are spreading across the US despite DEA efforts to combat them.