Menu Tosh’s Story Close Menu Tosh’s Story Tosh’s Story The evening of October 26, 2015, twenty-nine-year-old Aptos, California resident Tosh Ackerman took a Benadryl and part of a Xanax pill to help him sleep. He never woke up, and his girlfriend found him dead the next day. Ackerman died because the Xanax he took was counterfeit. It contained a fatal dose of a powerful synthetic opioid called fentanyl. [Read More]
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Young Californian Dies After Accidentally Taking Counterfeit Xanax Made with Fentanyl – Partnership for Safe Medicines