Health officials in Montana said there were at least eight fatal drug overdoses between May 22 and June 1 in the state, blaming them all on fentanyl and calling the recent trend an “alarming number of fatal overdoses.”
Officials found blue M30 pills near those who died, which they said are likely counterfeit pills that contain the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The drug, which is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of fatal overdoses across the United States in recent years.
