The New York Times Magazine - 20.10.2019

SPELLING BEE

Microbe (3 points). Also: Become, beriberi, bimbo, biome,

bireme, bocce (or bocci or boccie), bomber, booboo,

boomer, borer, boric, bribe, brier, broom, combo, ember,

imbibe, member, remember, robber. If you found other

legitimate dictionary words in the beehive, feel free to

include them in your score.

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for Americans, the article said; now they had just

encountered ‘‘a new devil.’’

The killing stops when the buying stops,

the article noted — there is no market with-

out demand. How much fentanyl has fl ooded

into the United States from China, into towns

like Grand Forks and West Palm Beach, ‘‘only

Heaven knows.’’

Kyra Coff man, one of Bailey’s best friends, did not

follow the string of arrests and trials that resulted

from his death. ‘‘It didn’t change much,’’ she told

me. ‘‘At the end of the day, he was still gone.’’ During

the last months of Bailey’s life, Coff man pleaded

with him to quit. He promised he would, again and

again, only to relapse a few days later. Coff man

knew how much Bailey loved his mom, and how

close the two were. Coff man thought about telling

her, hoping it might force Bailey to get clean. ‘‘He

didn’t want to disappoint her,’’ Coff man told me.

‘‘It’s why any kid hides things from their parents.’’

The last person to see Bailey alive was his

friend Tanner Gerszewski. It was Bailey who fi rst

introduced him to fentanyl. Bailey had already

been using for a few months, but Gerszewski

knew what fentanyl did to people. Then one Fri-

day night in fall 2014, he was at home relaxing

after a bad day at work, and Bailey brought some

over. Gerszewski agreed to try it. He put some

of the powder on foil, lit it, and breathed in the

smoke. ‘‘Before I even blew out,’’ Gerszewski told

me, ‘‘I said, ‘How much more of this you got?’ ’’

He spent every dollar he had on it.

Around 9 p.m. on Jan. 2, Bailey’s friend and

roommate Kain Schwandt drove him over to

Gerszewski’s house, then left to run errands. Bai-

ley was still high from smoking fentanyl earlier in

the day at Ryan Jensen’s house, but the two friends

did more fentanyl together before settling onto the

couch to play an Ultimate Fighting video game on

Xbox. After a few minutes, Bailey’s character on the

screen stopped moving. Gerszewski looked over

and saw Bailey was nodding off , so Gerszewski

nudged him. ‘‘I fi gured he was tired,’’ Gerszewski

said. ‘‘We’d both seen each other so much worse.’’

Bailey came to and kept playing. But his char-

acter went still again a couple of minutes later.

The third time Gerszewski nudged him, Bailey’s

head fell back, and Gerszewski saw that his friend

was turning white.

Death from a fentanyl overdose is death from

suff ocation. Overwhelmed by opioids, the ner-

vous system signals for blood pressure and respi-

ration to drop. The pupils constrict; blood oxygen

levels plummet; the heart goes into arrhythmia.

Within a few minutes, cellular death begins, and

the patient is lost.

It was a scene from a nightmare — Gerszewski

too high to help but sober enough to realize what

was happening. He could barely talk, barely use

a phone. He called Schwandt. Schwandt could

hear Gerszewski panicking, breathing heavily

and running around the apartment. It sound-

ed as if Gerszew ski was tearing the place apart.

Schwandt told him to wake Bailey up. A minute

later, Gerszew ski called again. Schwandt went to

the apartment, shouted to call 911 and began CPR.

After Bailey died, he was found wearing a

hemp necklace that Coff man had made. She had

stopped by his place that afternoon to fi nd Bailey

and Schwandt laughing and joking, cracking each

other up as they cleaned the house. Before she

left, Bailey told her that he loved her.

‘‘Doing drugs didn’t make him less of a good

person,’’ Coff man said. ‘‘He just got a little lost.’’

Additional reporting by Susie Wu.

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