Posted on 01/13/2019 12:22:10 PM PST by 11th_VA
Police in Northern California responded to a "mass casualty overdose" situation on Saturday that resulted in one death and a dozen people hospitalized.
Authorities said that the incident was caused by exposure to the deadly opioid fentanyl, which also affected two responding officers, according to NBC News.
Mike O'Brien, a police captain in Chico, Calif., said at a news conference that four of the victims were in critical condition.
"Certainly there's potential for additional fatalities," O'Brien said. "I want to emphasize that."
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“Recreational” drugs always find their way to demand, and demand for such drugs is a social aberration in a morally and ethically low class of people. Look for legalized marijuana product prices and taxes to skyrocket, if the black market stuff is laced with the cheapest of opioids.
Self-policing the gene pool?
When I was young, I adopted a policy of never drinking from anything out of my possession for even a moment. Punchbowls, a drink you’set down for a moment... You have to protect yourself.
It would be very easy to weaponize it. They bust people all the time bringing 100 pounds, 120 pounds of it into the country, enough to kill 20 million people if you can believe it, and all it would take is any terror group to throw it all over a bunch of people, in a subway, plane, even dump it in a water supply, food supply, air system. This is WMDs they are bringing into the country, but hey, it’s not a national emergency.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fentanyl-Bust-Heroin-NYC-Biggest-Ever-445568863.html
And since the government can’t/won’t do much of anything about the street drugs, they deliberately go after the innocent patients and compassionate doctors and prescription opioids, because they can pat themselves on the back and say they’re decreasing opioid abuse and deaths. It’s nothing but a political football, and they’ve even got President Trump believing it.
China is invading her on all fronts and dumping excess population too .
The CPC is a helping with spreading this poison as part of the Grand Long term plan .
China are plotting away to destroy us on multiple levels .
Our military Intel is keenly aware but DC is owned by the Chinese .
But, but, CNN says their is no fentanyl crisis.
Any one with kids should read this book
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America Hardcover – Large Print, August 7, 2018
by Beth Macy (Author
)In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death.
Unbelievable. California wanted legalized grass and they got it. No, it isn’t a gateway drug leading to harder drugs. /sarc
Once the high goes away, you start chasing a better high which Fentanyl and Heroin provide. Plus it’s cheaper and you can sink into that comforting feeling. Then you either go to rehab or die.
Here is the revenue source fir all the Chinese drug trade .
Buy up property with the DRUG CASH .
Closing the border is not a panacea as you state. What building a barrier does is free up resources to work on the other issues surrounding illegal immigration. It’s a force multiplier, another tool in the drawer so to speak. The commie rats would like to convince the heads full of mush that the barrier will not solve the problem in its entirety so we shouldn’t build it.
I’m one of those people who is allergic to morphine.
It didn’t do a thing for pain what times the ER types gave it to me for different things that happened to me.
Toridol on the other hand does rather well. Too bad, it’s rough on the kidneys if I remember the doctor correctly.
I hope you never need it again!
Yes. I attended Chico for a year long ago.
The saying back then was: At Chico you are either a Partier or a Christian.
I was in the latter group. ICF had the largest approved organization on campus, 300 active, and we needed the biggest lecture hall in the university for our regular meetings.
Me either.
I do my best to stay out of ERs.
A couple weeks ago, the dentist pulled a broken tooth that he says was finally going to be a problem if I didn’t. I’m too cheap for an implant and no one can really see the gap.
Anyway he said the last person who got the procedure didn’t remember a thing.
I took a valium right before as prescribed and I dozed for a few minutes and felt nothing. He did the gas and it wasn’t enough for me.
Every little thing I felt and heard every word he and the assistant said.
I didn’t want to.
When in that sort of dazed state, I have too much time to think and usually focus on all the bad things in memory. There were some tears but not from the physical pain, just the endless loop of bad memories that won’t stop running.
After I got up and out of the chair, I felt ok. Not woozy or anything.
A lady walked me to the door and down the stairs. I walked around the block just fine to the pharmacy for prescription pain pills. It was a 30 minute wait so I walked to my makeshift garage about 50 yards away and spun my old Blazer on jackstands over. It’s relaxing hearing a 350 run.
No worries about CO poisoning there, too many openings and roof leaks. It’s an old metal building. I have eyes on the place a lot and the local PD rolls by regularly.
I shut down, locked up, got my pills, and walked just fine another half a block home.
The joy of the burbs.
I needed the pain pills about 3 or 4 times at most.
I had 8 molars removed on the same day——no big deal these days.
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The procedure itself wasn’t that big a deal.
I’m waiting on the bill. Insurance helps a lot on this one according to the estimate.
My dentist has a sense of humor. I asked him which sports car or boat am I paying for. His response was the new paint on the new walls in the new building.
sorry, not feeling a bit of sorrow....except I grieve for our once proud upstanding culture, where SHAME existed...
I can relate. Sometimes I do that without meds.
Sucks outliving friends and family...
It wasn’t easy for them. But it wasn’t easy for you.
Human courage is amazing.
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