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Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Twitter: @AFPfeature We are offering the following two-part package on the impact in Europe of the powerful opioid painkiller fentanyl, which has been at the centre of a deadly crisis in the United States: + Europe dodges US fentanyl crisis but for how long? + Estonia stems fentanyl plight but has few answers for US Health-EU-drugs-opioids,INVESTIGATION PARIS When 18-year-old Joseph bought a pill at a fun fair in the French Riviera resort of Cannes, he was convinced it was morphine. He didn't know that it contained the powerful opioid painkiller fentanyl and died of an overdose later that evening. Until now, Europe has managed to avoid a fentanyl crisis on the scale seen in the United States but police and experts warn that the continent could yet be hit. 1,500 words by Romain Fonsegrives. File pictures Health-Estonia-drugs-fentanyl-US,FEATURE TALLINN Estonia's success in fighting back from having the EU's highest proportion of opioid-related deaths is one of the world's rare good-news stories in the battle against fentanyl but experts warn its small size may make replicating its turnaround elsewhere impossible. 950 words by Sam Kingsley and Polina Kalantar. Pictures by Alessandro Rampazzo. Video by Sam Kingsley afp
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