Posted on 01/19/2019 10:42:56 PM PST by caww
Fentanyl can strike anyone, at any age, on account of the unique method by which it can be absorbed:..... through contact with the skin. ...the quantity required for the average adult to overdose and die is just 3 milligrams. Smaller still the amount required to kill a child.
While many balk at the notion that merely touching fentanyl can lead to an overdose, any contact with the mucous membranes can introduce the drug to the bloodstream..... Additionally, according to the American College of Medical Toxicology, the use of alcohol-based sanitizer is both “ineffective in removing fentanyl and may increase drug absorption.”
When we fail to keep deadly drugs out of our country, Americans lose. We lose family members and friends, and the capacity those people possessed to positively change the world. We allow American money to be funneled into the hands of vicious Mexican cartels that inflict horrific retribution on those who oppose them.
Our border crisis is real. About 90 percent of heroin and 80 percent of fentanyl in the U.S. is sourced from Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Truth
300 deaths a week.........
If we killed that many whales or polar bears, we would have nuked Mexico already!
I better start using those wipes at the grocery store. Emergency room doctor administered fentanyl to my son for pain. He told us it is much much stronger than morphine.
I’ve head police officers and Emt’s speak about how they’ve gotten Fentanyl on themselves while dealing with these addicts. So this stuff is a terrible threat to the very people protecting and serving our health needs.
That’s the weak stuff. The illicit fentanyl can be 100 times more powerful than the pharmaceutical grade. Got to wonder if the motive for them to make it that strong is flat out murder?
The Democrats don’t want to stop fentanyl for the same reason that they so admire the goals and foundation of Margaret Sanger.
I’ve heard of cops getting really sick just from accidentally coming in contact. Just skin contact is enough.
It is MUCH stronger than morphine...and deadly if not administered properly in measured doses.
Yep....also those checking packages at border entry since it’s easy to ship in packages they check......
It’s not just the addicts problem....what of those who use it that are working near food etc......the list could go on and on about how far reaching this stuff goes.
Dems lie; people die.
...”Dems lie; people die”....
24/7
...”Got to wonder if the motive for them to make it that strong is flat out murder?”.....
It’s coming from China...and they remember the Opium Wars. Chinese do not forget.
I understand that both China and Mexico cut their junk with fentanyl for extra kick. I think it is a method to kill our junkies. Why they would kill off their customers I can’t understand. I never knowingly ingest anything from China or Mexico, I just don’t trust either of them.
The old wrinkled hag and her brown nosing followers don’t give a damn about the drugs or illegals crossing our southern border killing our citizens.
By now that should be obvious to the deaf dumb and blind among us.
She is fixated on her power or the power she believes she has.
Trump will have to do some more schooling on her. Last week he put her on a leash and grounded her. I wonder what next week will bring.
A lot of innocents can die, including first responders, well trained heroes trying to help us.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers open packages suspected of containing fentanyl.
‘Like finding a needle in a haystack’... Agents trying to stop deadly fentanyl from entering U.S.
A Senate report this year found fentanyl can be easily purchased online from overseas pharmaceutical companies, particularly those based in China...China has a vast pharmaceutical industry.
A mere kilogram of pure fentanyl can be turned into hundreds of thousands of individual doses which for obvious reasons make some experts skeptical that the surge can ever be contained.
A kilo of fentanyl bought for $3,000 to $5,000 can generate $1.5 million in revenue.
While private shippers must keep electronic data on every parcel, including the identities of the shipper and recipient, that’s not the case with the U.S. Postal Service. It must rely on other countries’ postal operations to collect that information, and today, only about 40 percent of packages that come from overseas have it.
That disparity makes it harder for the Postal Service to flag suspicious packages, the report said, and has turned government-run mail into the go-to route for fentanyl smugglers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-mail-order-fentanyl-20180524-story.html
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