One person dead, 12 more hospitalized after suspected Fentanyl leads to 'mass overdose,' police say

fox nwes ^ | 01/12/2019 | Paulina Dedaj

[Tax-chick]

I think it’s misleading to call the structure a “home.” “A house being used as a place of business by drug dealers” would probably be more accurate.

[Getready]

Plus we dont know if they test for fentanyl only...users could be getting other designer congeners of fentanyl in the mix. When they do tox screens am not sure if fentanyl is checked for specifically...could depend on the lab.....amazing how people throw their lives away.

[vette6387]

“Many years ago Singapore had one of the worst drug problems in the world. They solved it.”

The sign at their airport said: DADA (drugs) MEAN DEATH! Bring drugs into our country and we will simply execute you. Seems like a good policy here. Drug couriers should be shot on sight at our porous border. Leave the bodies for the vultures to clean up.

[duckman]

Another reason to build the wall? Just askin.

[DAC21]

Apparently just getting this crap on your skin can lead to overdose.

[VTenigma]

I don’t know about them, but the CIA certainly is.

[Clutch Martin]

Sometimes I wonder why we beat our heads against the wall. And I know it is because we are a caring people who will go above and beyond to help and to save.

But at what point do you just let them go? We havent crossed that threshold yet, but the sky is falling and as in all things fleshy there has to be a breaking point.

[super7man]

there’s an incredible amount number of people

Grammar Police on Patrol

[UB355]

Jim Jones territory

[BenLurkin]

What, you never heard of Chico and The Man?

[liberalh8ter]

I’m guessing 1 guilty party and 11 innocent victims.

[liberalh8ter]

Sorry, 12 innocent victims.

[Betty Jane]

I work at a nursing home. We have a few people on fentanyl patches. It’s the only narcotic which we have two nurses sign off on. It is signed and witnessed being put on, placement checked each shift, and the old one is witnessed being destroyed. We have heard of stories of nurses elsewhere licking the old patch. Gross.

[CodeToad]

Remove the warning labels from things. Let nature take care of itself.

People dumb enough to demand dangerous substances to feel groovy are not our best or brightest and are often a drain on society.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Fentanyl (imported from China) is the major cause of overdoses.

But sure, let's put restrictions on your doctor writing you a prescription for Tylenol 3. That will improve matters!

[38special]

Do they call him Beto?

[from occupied ga]

12 junkies-no great loss

[Responsibility2nd]

My wife has used fentanyl patches successfully for years. It is getting harder and harder to get a prescription for these patches. Not all pharmacies even carry these patches. Now her insurance company is making it more difficult to reorder. She is afraid that due to the abuse problems fentanyl may be pulled off the market and is really concerned as patches have been the only things that have really helped her.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"there’s an incredible amount of people stupid enough to throw away their lives for it."

Don't get me wrong, I'm not making excuses, however a lot of these people got hooked on legal opiods and then got cut off. Fentanyl is cheaper to get illegally than something like Hydro or Oxy because of the tight controls on those drugs. When many of our wounded veterans first came back from Iraq and Afghanistan, they were given liberal amounts of opioids to combat their pain.

We can debate whether or not marijuana is addictive, however there is no doubt that opioids are highly addictive and should not be given out like candy like some hospitals/doctors have done in the past. People trust their doctors, when these people say you have to take this medication, you take it. I've learned as I get older to question all of these people. I don't care anymore if they look at me and talk to me like I'm stupid (which some of them have), I want to know what I'm getting into. Not everyone is like that.

[skr]

I sit corrected, thank you. :)