Donna Pinaula and her husband '' could be presenting a cookery TV show for all their breezy enthusiasm as they show me the ingredients and utensils they keep stashed away in the shopping trolley they push around town.Except, that is, what they're cooking up is fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin and so devastating it has laid waste to towns and cities across the U.S.The addicts, their patient dog, Rock Star, and a human companion — who can barely stay upright, let alone speak — are standing on a corner of one of the busiest thoroughfares in downtown , , but the endless stream of people on their way to work walk past them without comment.
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