[MIchaelTArchangel]

Isn't Fentanyl what Patches Kennedy said caused him to crash his automobile? And I always thought Fentanyl was a date-rape drug!

[glorgau]

See the movie "Brick". A great film noir set in a southern California high school with nary a swear word used.

[P-40]

I wonder if there will be a recall? :)

[MikefromOhio]

If it's in Detroit, it might as well be in Ohio....

[ConservativeMind]

I will admit one thing about the recent tragedies surrounding this:

We know each death was due to using illegal drugs.

It's a sad way to find out who is supporting the drug cartels.

[boxerblues]

Fentanyl is a painkiller, for cancer patients is is used as a patch

[mkjessup]

Heroin addicts are dying by the bushel.

If there is a downside to this, I haven't seen it yet.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I agree with William W. John about liberals and junkies.

[Vaquero]

Oh well.....ya play ya pay....

...kinda like paraquat laced cannabis in the 70's

[AppyPappy]

Authorities there have confirmed 100 fentanyl/heroin deaths. Another 60 were confirmed in the Chicago area.

Who would have thought you could die from shooting heroin?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

What I can't understand is why would dealers be killing off their customers?

[A CA Guy]

Is this where all the Libertarians post that if we allowed this to all be legal there would be heaven on earth?

[CFC__VRWC]

Patches blamed Phenergan, a powerful anti-nausea drug, for his crash.

[kcvl]

At the end of a two-day conference on the painkiller fentanyl, police and federal drug investigators said they are better informed about the growing crisis and are aggressively working to cut off the Mexican supply of the drug, which has tainted the U.S. heroin market and killed hundreds of people.

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The 22-year-old construction worker and addict was another victim in an apparent surge in U.S. overdoses blamed on abuse of the fentanyl patch, a prescription-only product that is intended for cancer patients and others with chronic pain and is designed to dispense the medicine slowly through the skin.

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[upchuck]

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

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

This is a problem?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Fentanyl is all the things that people said it was on this thread (pain killer, used as patch etc.) but its primary role in life is as a synthetic narcotic used in anethesia. Certain forms of anesthesia require high does narcotics which typically get combined with other pharmacology to concoct an anesthetic "cocktail". Fentanyl was a "designer" narcotic built to meet this specific need. It is something like 5x (or 10x I forget which) more potent than morphine and presumably also more potent than heroin. Sounds like people that got hold of some of this drug are now sleeping "The Big Sleep". Guess there's yet another reason not to be an iv drug abuser.

[Bean Counter]

I really don't see the problem here.

Are localities being overstressed brom the expense of burying dead junkies all of a sudden??

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing wider distribution of adulterated heroin, nation wide. Seems to me to be a self-curing problem, in that you'll either get good and scared and seek treatment, or you'll die.

Either way, it's a net sum gain...

[KoRn]

Whoever thought mixing fentanyl with heroin knows nothing of drugs. That stuff is so strong it's measured in micrograms, rather than milligrams like most other medicines. Those idiots were probably mixing it like they would any other additive, or the users, who didn't know what they had, just used too much.

[tapatio]

Fentanyl-laced heroin is responsible for four deaths in Wilmington,N.C. also.http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS/606160404/1004/FRONTPAGE

[MinuteGal]

I can see quite a few ways where this drug can be used to commit the perfect murder. I'll bet a lot of these "accidental" deaths of unsuspecting "overdosers" were actually the premeditated ultimate crime perpetrated by others.

Leni