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A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Rainbow fentanyl — the newest Halloween scare

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Anatomy of an urban sex legend: Why TV loves to scare parents out of their minds

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