CLEVELAND — In May 2022, Rich Iler received a devastating phone call.

"I was in Chicago on a business trip. I got a call telling me my little girl was in cardiac arrest," Iler said.

His immediate response was disbelief.

"That's impossible. She's 21 years old. How can she be in cardiac arrest? They said you better get here," Iler said.

Within hours, his daughter Tiffany was dead. She was one of two Ohio State University students who died during finals week. Police and autopsy reports said fentanyl, the synthetic opioid, killed the 21-year-old as she was about to finish her junior year.

An investigation by Columbus police said the drug was present in a bag found inside an OSU library. The students who found it believed it was the drug Adderall, but it wasn't; it was fentanyl.

"I didn't

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