BATON ROUGE — From high school star athletes to business professionals and soccer moms, the fentanyl epidemic is sparing no one. It is a grim reality East Baton Rouge Coroner Dr. Beau Clark sees every day, and one he is now sharing with a national audience.
Dr. Clark is a featured expert in the new docuseries “Fentanyl Stories,” produced by the Victoria’s Voice Foundation. The series provides a harrowing look at the synthetic opioid crisis devastating communities across the U.S., including in Baton Rouge.
Clark appears specifically in Episode 4, titled “On the Front Lines,” in which first responders and medical experts reveal the daily toll of confronting a substance so potent that a few granules—comparable to a fraction of a sugar packet—can be lethal…