Posted on 07/28/2024 8:35:45 AM PDT by Libloather
Overdose deaths linked to a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than fentanyl have more than doubled in the city — while a new lethal sedative has been detected for the first time in the Big Apple’s drug supply.
Both terrifying drugs have created a perfect public-health storm, prompting city officials on Thursday to issue a warning about carfentanil — powerful enough to sedate an elephant — and medetomidine, an animal tranquilizer experts say is more potent than “zombie drug” xylazine.
Yet, despite the two poisons making the city’s cocaine and heroin supply an even more deadly gamble, the city’s Health Department continued to tout “harm reduction” programs, such as providing addicts with clean needles and counseling them not to use drugs alone.
“All New Yorkers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and to be met with non-judgmental care, as we know that stigma drives people away from services,” Health Department spokeswoman Rachel Vick told The Post.
“Our goal is to reduce overdose death and improve lives by mitigating the risk of death for people who use drugs and ensuring that everyone has access to high-quality harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services when, where, and how they need it.”
Carfentanil has been linked to seven fatal overdoses in NYC through June, more than double the three OD deaths during the same period last year, according to preliminary data from city health officials and the Medical Examiner’s office.
Eight opioid samples obtained from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan between March and June were found to be contaminated with small amounts of the deadly substance, in addition to fentanyl, health officials said.
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100,000+ od’s, but ARs are a problem?
Play the game and win stupid prizes.
If there was a drug that killed users the very first time they injected it to get high, I swear people would try it.
My first thought is sometimes problems take care of themselves............
100,000 dead Americans each year in China’s opiate war on America.
Only 58,000 Americans died in over a decade of the Vietnam War.
Will America wake up to the Opiod War China is prosecuting against us?
100% correct.
In Kensington Philadelphia addicts are losing limbs and the streets are full of wheelchair bound addicts who go on using unabated.
How long before a terrorist dumps a bucket of that stuff into a city water supply?
And then the media response will be: How could that terrorist have gotten into the country? How could that drug have gotten into the country?
It’s a real mystery.
The article makes it sound like the ‘drug supply’ is piped in like water or gas by the utility department or something.🙄
Wet Paint syndrome
I guess no terrorists have seen Batman Begins.
We are helping China by leaving the border open, and remember the Covid vaccine so who is on our side?
This is only 2022 demographics:
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/databrief137.pdf
2023 First Quarter left out what population experienced the most deaths but location is the Bronx:
2023 Second Quarter the numbers go up.
street drugs don’t appear in Twinkies, don’t use street drugs and this will not happen to u.
> Will America wake up to the Opiod War China is prosecuting against us? <
Senator Mitch McConnell’s father-in-law gave Mitch and his wife a gift of at least $5 million. And the father-in-law has very close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
How many of our leading politicians are also tainted by ChiCom money? I’m guessing it’s more than just a few.
And that’s one reason (of many) why the Deep State hates Trump. He simply cannot be bought.
But street drugs *do* appear in counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
The street price of pharma analgesics is sky high.
And even legit pharma analgesics are often gateway drugs.
Just listing opioid analogues as Schedule I drugs is not enough. Based on their lethality, they should be treated as WMDs, Weapons of Mass Destruction. It is not unreasonable to classify Carfentanil the same as enriched Uranium, Plutonium, or weapons-grade Anthrax or Smallpox.
Yes, in dem la-la-land it is.
The scary thing is that medetomidine has an isomer called dexmedetomidine which is an IV anesthetic (centrally acting alpha agonist) which is dissociative to produce GA state. Medetonidine plus Carfenta is a hell of a general anesthetic which will stop breathing quickly due to the narcotic potency of carfentanyl.
This is scary stuff. The only bright side is it would be a very peaceful death. I would worry about this being aerosolized in a closed space a la the Russian ballet fentanyl massacre a decade back.
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