Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.
The death certificate of Ryan Bagwell, a 19-year-old from Mission, Texas, states that he died of a fentanyl overdose. His mother, Sandra Bagwell, says that’s wrong. On an April night in 2022, he swallowed a pill from a bottle of Percocet, a prescription painkiller that he and a friend had purchased earlier in the day…