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Overdose Deaths Hit the Puerto Rican Community in Philadelphia Hard, While Discussing How to Stop the Crisis

Read en Español Guillermo Santos carries the urn with his father’s ashes in his arms. The box, wrapped in a gift bag, weighs more than he imagined. Standing outside the house where he grew up in Kensington, he looks down. “It’s the longest time I’ve had him in my arms,” confesses the 21-year-old boy. Santos’ father, also called Guillermo, died of an overdose of fentanyl in 2021, just months after his son finished high school in virtual mode. San…
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Guillermo Santos carries the urn with his father’s ashes in his arms. The box, wrapped in a gift bag, weighs more than he imagined. Standing outside the house where he grew up in Kensington, he looks down. “It’s the longest time I’ve had him in my arms,” confesses the 21-year-old boy. Santos’s father, also called Guillermo, died of an overdose of fentanyl in 2021, just months after his son finished high school in virtual mode. Santos, father, ha…

Deaths from overdose hit the Puerto Rican community in Philadelphia hard, while there is debate about how to stop the crisis Guillermo Santos holds the urn with his father’s ashes on the street, in front of the house where he grew up in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. His father, born in Puerto Rico, died of an overdose.

Read en Español Guillermo Santos carries the urn with his father’s ashes in his arms. The box, wrapped in a gift bag, weighs more than he imagined. Standing outside the house where he grew up in Kensington, he looks down. “It’s the longest time I’ve had him in my arms,” confesses the 21-year-old boy. Santos’ father, also called Guillermo, died of an overdose of fentanyl in 2021, just months after his son finished high school in virtual mode. San…

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Centro de Periodismo Investigativo broke the news in on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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