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🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martina Vick Magnussen was killed in an apartment near Mayfair. |
0:08.0 | Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case fled the UK to Yemen. |
0:13.0 | He's never been questioned by the police. |
0:16.0 | I'm Noel El-Makafi and I made a promise to Martina's family 15 years ago to find out what happened. |
0:23.0 | Murder and Mayfair is the new mini-series right here in the documentary. |
0:27.0 | All episodes are available now. |
0:30.0 | Hello, I'm James Reynolds. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
0:35.0 | In OS conversations, we bring people together from around the world to discuss how major events affect their lives. |
0:42.0 | This time, it's conversations on fentanyl in the United States. |
0:49.0 | The other month, a drug enforcement official in the country described it as the single deadliest drug threat the US has ever encountered |
0:56.0 | to parents share their experiences of losing someone to fentanyl. |
1:00.0 | And we bring together three medical professionals who deal with overdoses almost every day. |
1:05.0 | Patients that are breathing at a very slow rate, sometimes no respiratory effort at all. |
1:11.0 | And these are patients that we aggressively ventilate and then we administer Narcan to get these patients back to their normal respiratory drive. |
1:20.0 | Fentanyl has been around since the 1960s and small doses are used safely every day by medics for pain relief. |
1:29.0 | But as an illegal drug, fentanyl is blamed for more than 70,000 deaths in the US every year. |
1:37.0 | And from people in the streets right up to the president, there is recognition that America has a real problem. |
1:44.0 | One of the things to understand is that fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin. |
1:49.0 | Just two milligrams of fentanyl could kill you and that amount could fit on the tip of a pencil. |
1:56.0 | You may have seen celebrity deaths link to it, but as the numbers suggest the drug touches so many regular lives as well. |
2:03.0 | And that's what we've been hearing about. |
2:05.0 | Before I go any further, I should say as you might expect that our conversations contain themes of trauma and drug use. |
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