People who traffic heroin and fentanyl could receive harsher punishments if a bill that passed the North Carolina Senate Tuesday becomes law.
sets the maximum fine for trafficking certain opioids at one million dollars and expands repercussions for distributing drugs that result in death.
There's a number of cases "where the person who caused them to die didn't sell them the drug, they gave it to them," North Carolina Sheriffs' Association lobbyist Eddie Caldwell told Axios. "That was a gap in the law. This is designed to close that gap."of any other age group in January, according to the state health department.
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