Wastewater testing on Nantucket Island has revealed cocaine levels 50% higher than the national average, according to results published by local health officials.
“I think it’s interesting that cocaine was so high, and I was surprised fentanyl was so low, because fentanyl is in everything,” Addiction Solutions of Nantucket founder Dr. Timothy Lepore told The Boston Globe. “I thought fentanyl would be higher.”
Lepore noted that the affluent summer residents on the exclusive island might explain the higher cocaine levels.
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