Still, fentanyl spread. It did so because it was the drug underworld’s great democratizer, and the Magic Bullet was some part of that. A more complicated, expensive, hard-to-find mixing machine might have deterred many of these new fentanyl dealers. Instead, the Magic Bullet was cheap—$29.95 at any Target, Walmart, or Best Buy. Its very name seemed to promise a solution to all of one’s problems. It enclosed the mixture in a plastic bulb; you didn’t need to use an open bowl from which you might inhale the product’s dust. Each dealer appeared to imagine that this tiny appliance was not only
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