Posted on 03/31/2017 8:30:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A new and lethal strain of synthetic heroin resulted in five overdose deaths in Minnesota this year, and officials believe another five undetermined deaths will also be linked to the drug.
The five cases are the first confirmed in-state deaths caused by carfentanil, a drug from China that is 100 times more potent than the already dangerous fentanyl. Carfentanil is federally approved to immobilize large animals such as elephants for surgery, and two salt-sized specks of the opioid can cause instant death, a local emergency room doctor said Thursday.
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Investigators are working locally and nationally to find the source of the carfentanil, said Ken Solek, assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Twin Cities office. It most likely is made in China and brought in by Mexican drug cartels for distribution on the streets. It could also be bought online, he said.
Since such a small amount is laced in the drug, the profit margin can be high, said Solek. But most intelligence we have is that people don’t even know they are taking it, he said.
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100 times fentanyl!!! wow.
I took Ketamine once. I wouldn’t recommend it.
Danger, danger! This sh*t will kill you DEAD!
Not for fun, not for recreation. Decades ago, I used to know people who went that way. I dropped them from my life.
Better Business Bureau cannot guarantee the purity. No one can.
Wouldn’t the high power of this stuff allow massive dilution, or “cutting”?
Maybe they cut it wrong.
two salt-sized specks of the opioid can cause instant death...
That being said, you are right. They are making a FORTUNE.
And they couldn’t give a #### about who dies.
Dontcha know it’s “an act of love”
Yeah, i’ll be kind and use the phrase mexican cartels, who are bringing it in
Sounds like a suitable execution Drug.
Sure and to the point.
BTW, liberals are like little children. Except that they can vote and hold office.
What don’t they get about all the DEATH being brought to us from our friends in Mexico?
They are good heroin addicts now.
Amen!
So death is the high then, right?
This was in the news for awhile last summer. There were even a few overdoses in my area.
Not wise business to kill your customers.
Make it legal, regulate it, so people know what they’re getting and tax the hell out of it to pay the national debt, put the cartels and SWAT/police unions teams out of business.
What’s not to like?
The only reason I don’t do heroin, pain killers, or visit casinos is that I’d probably like them too much.
If people want to become zoned out zombies, let them. Really. It’s not my fault.
WE had training on this stuff at my volunteer fire station. Bad Juju. If it’s aerosolized, a tiny whiff can put you down. It basically stops you from breathing. So they train us to wear effective PPE, and get out of there right away if we suspect the stuff is present.
Narcan will effectively bring you back, but the half life of Narcan is like 6 hours, and carfentanil’s half life is maybe forty hours, so a person has to be monitored continuously for that period of time, and re-dosed with narcan periodically.
Death Penalty for Heroin Dealers.
The victims, who ranged in ages from 23 to 43, died in Minneapolis, Apple Valley and Faribault in January and February. It appears they had no clue their heroin purchase was laced with carfentanil, and the drug can’t be diluted enough for safe human consumption.
I have no sympathy with anyone using drugs like heroin or cocaine, etc. Let the buyer beware ... let 'em die ...
Sadly, most fire dept calls are medical and, in big cities, most of them are drug ODs. This is going to greatly increase the risk to our brave first responders. Glad you got training on it, MH. The chance of inadvertently getting a whiff can put you down is bad (and very sad) news.
Narcan (naloxone) half average for adults about 1 hr...neonates...longer...carfentanil half life 7-8 hrs..either way ...you cannot fire and forget with narcan cuz if sometime takes massive opioid doses the narcan will wear off and the dangerous side effects of opioids could return and kill the user.. In hospitals they use continuous narcan infusions intravenously in patients who use long acting or massive opoid dose use..
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