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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Mostly we do what we must.
and that takes courage.
Many do not.
Taking it one step further, I’m sure big Pharmacy industry already has a replacement for opioids that they can charge insurance companies two or $300 per script
A doctor told my husband that there is a very effective non-opioid medication available now, but it’s $700 for 30 pills. That was about 2 years ago, and I can’t remember the name of it.
I have seen co-workers on and off: night and day.
And marijuana today is 20X+ that of 1960s crop.
It’s just a matter of time before someone weaponizes it.
It already has been weaponized. Remember the Dubrovka Theater siege in Moscow by 30-40 Chechen terrorists.
The Russian spec ops used a gas laced with a fentanyl derivative. The high body count from the survivors was due to the Russians being very secretive about supplying the antidote
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