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Fentanyl-laced Heroin Found in Ohio
Columbus Ohio Dispatch ^ | June 16, 2006

Posted on 06/16/2006 1:24:23 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel

Fentanyl-laced heroin found in Ohio Mansfield, Columbus labs identify fatal combo Friday, June 16, 2006 Margaret Harding THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

MANSFIELD, Ohio — The deadly mix of drugs that has killed addicts in Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia has reached Ohio.

Mansfield police have identified the powerful prescription painkiller fentanyl in six of the last 10 batches of heroin confiscated by police.

Mansfield police laboratory director Anthony Tambasco said he decided to start looking for fentanyl after hearing about the deaths in Detroit just before Memorial Day. Authorities there have confirmed 100 fentanyl/heroin deaths. Another 60 were confirmed in the Chicago area.

"It’s not something you normally look for," Tambasco said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


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To: Know your rights
"And your evidence that they don't simply like the effects of alcohol twice as much as they like the effects of marijuana is ... ?"

So you're admitting that the benefits of a regulatory scheme are rendered moot if the product is popular?

81 posted on 06/27/2006 5:12:16 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Good heavens, no; is English not your first language? I'm pointing out that without the evidence I referred to, your statistic doesn't prove what you imply it does.
82 posted on 06/27/2006 5:18:28 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights
"No, it also increases his competition and thus lowers his profit margin. Did you really not know that?"

So instead of enriching a few criminals a lot we enrich many businessman a little. I'll ask again. And we, as a society, are better off how because of that?

83 posted on 06/27/2006 5:32:38 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
So instead of enriching a few criminals a lot we enrich many businessman a little. I'll ask again. And we, as a society, are better off how because of that?

Moderately enriched legal businessmen don't use their profits to hire muscle and buy guns for innocent-bystander-killing shootouts with rivals. Did you really not know that?

84 posted on 06/27/2006 5:45:38 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

fetanyl is a extremely strong painkiller usually reserved for end stage cancer patients or those in burn icu's. If patches kennedy (fitting) was on fentanyl I would love to hear his M.D.'s reasoning.


85 posted on 06/27/2006 5:49:52 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

It would be a painless death at least. They would just fall asleep and forget to breathe


86 posted on 06/27/2006 5:51:14 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: Know your rights

According to you, making a product legal and regulated keeps it out of the hands of teens. You never added the caveat that this is negated if the teens really like the product.


87 posted on 06/27/2006 5:59:06 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Two sentences, two falsehoods. English is not your first language, is it?
88 posted on 06/27/2006 6:06:22 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights
"and buy guns for innocent-bystander-killing shootouts with rivals"

99% of the time they kill only each other. Nobody's perfect.

That's it? We're to legalize all drugs nationwide because a few innocents in some major cities are accidentally killed? And how many will die because of legalization? How many additional accidents while on drugs, overdoses, spread of AIDS and other diseases, suicides ...?

Let's have some perspective here.

89 posted on 06/27/2006 6:15:48 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

It's apparently also used before colonoscopies. Hmmm, Patches Kennedy...bunghole...kinda go together. 'cept you really don't need the Patches


90 posted on 06/27/2006 6:27:37 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: robertpaulsen
That's it?

Of course not ... that's just the worst of it. When criminals collect drug-war-inflated profits, all manner of criminality is financed. Then there's the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices.

91 posted on 06/27/2006 6:30:03 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: 31M20RedDevil
We had an RN in our town arrested for stealing those patches off of a coupla of patients in hospice care.

I did a "ride along" with one of our local police officers. We were called to the scene of a DUI evaluation in progress. The woman failed the field sobriety test and had been taken into custody. We had to move her car off the street. In the process of moving the car we discovered an open 1 gallon jug of Gallo vin rose and a partially consumed cup of that wine in the cup holder. The windshield was broken. Bumpers front and back on the car were smashed. The airbag in the steering wheel and passengers side had deployed previously and were "taped" in place with duct tape. The car was full of trash from floor to the edge of the windows.

Having painted the picture of what we encountered, I can now tell you she was employed as a nurse in the local emergency room. The car was her home. She was way over the limit on the breathalyzer.

Think about that next time you are sitting in an emergency room waiting for treatment. You have no idea what kind of people may be employed there.

92 posted on 06/27/2006 6:35:28 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Know your rights
"When criminals collect drug-war-inflated profits, all manner of criminality is financed."

I seem to recall that your cavalier response to that has been, "If they commit a crime because of drugs, then arrest them for that crime". Did I get that right?

Or does that only apply to users?

"Then there's the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices."

And that won't go away unless you're proposing using my tax dollars to give away free drugs. Have you any data showing a correlation between crimes like burglary, robbery, and prostitution and the price of drugs to support your statement?

I thought countries like Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark had to resort to free drugs to stop the crime.

93 posted on 06/28/2006 5:03:48 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: CertainInalienableRights

Terrorism makes sense. A form of making money for weaponry, etc. while at the same time killing the many heroin "satans" as they see them. Sickening how they cannot see themselves as evil.


94 posted on 06/28/2006 5:10:31 AM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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To: Vaquero

Yeah but the paraquat pot wasnt dangerous... apparently burning made the paraquat harmless.


95 posted on 06/28/2006 5:14:55 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: CertainInalienableRights

? The ME is largely desert. Afghanistan, Pakistan, yes. Middle East, no. Most Heroin comes from the golden triangle.. Burma, Thailand, etc.


96 posted on 06/28/2006 5:16:16 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: ketelone

Paraquat lung is a lung disease caused by the weed killer Paraquat (dipyridylium).

Causes, incidence, and risk factors:

Paraquat is a highly toxic weed killer once promoted by the United States for use in Mexico to destroy marijuana plants. Research found that this herbicide was dangerous both to workers who applied it to the plants and to people who smoked the marijuana harvested from them.

In the United States, Paraquat is classified as "restricted commercial use," and people must obtain a license to use the product.Â


97 posted on 06/28/2006 5:19:15 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein(the moon is a harsh mistress))
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To: ketelone

I always thought of Afghanistan and Pakistan as part of the middle east.

Still, my point was that, if heroin is an opiate (I don't know if it is) and since Afghanistan has a large poppy economy, it would be "easy" (depending on where the drug manufacturing was done) to lace the drugs coming from Afghanistan with harmful substances in order to "terrorize" adicts.

From my perspective, that doesn't seem too effective. However, for someone in Afghanistan with a skewed worldview, they might see that as an effective tactic against the West.

Admittedly, lots of supposition on my part. That's why I threw it out for comment.


98 posted on 06/28/2006 6:43:43 AM PDT by CertainInalienableRights
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
The deadly mix of drugs that has killed addicts in Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia has reached Ohio

And this is bad because?

99 posted on 06/28/2006 6:44:47 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: Myrddin

Wow,an ER nurse living in her car,swilling down rot gut wine by the gallon.

It scares me the people that work in these fast-food eateries.There was a man arrested here yesterday that works at Taco Bell that assaulted a guy that asked him to turn down his car radio playing profanity laced hip-hop "music" in the TB parking lot.

We also had a 5 ft 200lb woman that held up a CVS for morphene two days ago,she got away.

This is a small town too.16,000


100 posted on 06/28/2006 7:29:45 AM PDT by 31M20RedDevil ( Washington Times:unbelievable that an American paper would help terrorists.)
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