Joseph Carey Merrick had the disease
commonly referred to as Elephant Man's
disease.
Posted on 08/26/2016 8:44:16 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Heroin cut with elephant tranquilizer may have caused 60 overdoses across two states in just 48 hours
Midwest health officials worried this would happen.
It’s why they brought together a tri-state coalition — Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky — to talk about the dangers, and it’s why they issued a stern, desperate warning last month to first responders and addiction counselors who patrol the front lines of the opioid war every day.
They said the situation was “dire.” One Ohio coroner told users they were “literally gambling” with their lives.
But their public plea could not prevent the heroin on their streets from being cut and sold with a new opioid analog 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 stronger than morphine.
In chemical terms, it’s called carfentanil. Colloquially, it’s an elephant tranquilizer.
It’s the most potent opioid used commercially, strong enough to knock out — or even kill — a 15,000-pound pachyderm, and used primarily to sedate other large animals, like ox, moose and buffalo.
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Joseph Carey Merrick had the disease
commonly referred to as Elephant Man's
disease.
Maybe in India...
LOL
An elephant story, eh?
Well, this is sort of obligatory then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brh0z3t8DTM
Go to the 00:17 mark.
And remember... no matter HOW BAD you think YOUR day is, it’ll NEVER be as bad as THIS poor schmuck’s day...
I have been told repeatedly by a wide variety of sources that this claim is not true. Alcohol consumption did in fact go down during prohibition. However, the druggie appologists *want* to run their own propaganda campaign, so they routinely repeat things that make their argument sound better.
So what is the solution then?
Don't get pregnant in the first place.
/s
“I will wager also that the synthetic fentnyls are not being made in US clandestine laboratories.”
Seems like mostly it’s coming from China, but they are shipping pill presses over here so that they can just ship the powder over and then US labs package it into pill form:
https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/05/fentanyl-traced-to-china/
To read the whole article, you have to enter your e-mail address?
Sometimes it comes in a Teddy bear.
On the talk radio station where I live they frequently run public-service ads.
One of them is this stupid weepy segment about meth addiction, narrated by a young woman who was hooked, then supposedly called the available hotline and got better.
She starts out, saying, "By age eighteen methamphetamine had me labeled as a felon."
Um...hardly.
For goodness' sake, if there is one thing that is known about addiction, it is that you have to accept responsibility for who you are and what you have done.
This passive tense crap from the Left....
It’s not wise to get an elephant high on Heroin.
They’ll remember that!
Let them OD. Hopefully they will be DOA.
You'll never solve the drug problem on the supply side. That's the genius of the market--if demand is there supply will find it. That's why the "War on Drugs" has been such a colossal waste of lives and resources. Substance abuse is a demand problem and can only be addressed as such.
How do you reduce drug demand? By giving people real independence and opportunity. What gives them that? Being raised in a loving and stable home by your biological mother and father, education, cultural enrichment, and instilling a sense of wonder and inspiration, along with responsibility and service to others. A culture that distinguishes between good and bad, right and wrong, that celebrates the former and discourages the latter. One that honors service and the inherent dignity of all. An economic system that rewards success and doesn't subsidize failure.
Not everyone has all of this, but you need most of the population to enjoy most of this if you want a healthy, stable, and prosperous society.
Maybe we should use carfentanil as an execution drug rather than all those other drug cocktails that the state tries.
Nice response. I think you are right on.
This should thin the herd pretty quickly.
Well, it did in the first year:
And then there were the unintended consequences. First was the growth of organized crime. economist Annelise Anderson wrote:
“Prohibition was a major impetus for the growth of mafia organisations. Prohibition created the potential for a major illegal market in alcohol, and it is to the years of prohibition that America can trace the growth in scope and power of its mafias.”
Another possible unintended consequence of Prohibition was the rise of incarceration rates in America. As noted by economist Mark Thornton in “Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure":
“Before Prohibition, there had been 4,000 federal convicts, fewer than 3,000 of whom were housed in federal prisons. By 1932 the number of federal convicts had increased 561 percent, to 26,589, and the federal prison population had increased 366 percent. The number of people convicted of Prohibition violations increased 1,000 percent between 1925 and 1930, and fully half of all prisoners received in 1930 had been convicted of such violations. Two-thirds of all prisoners received in 1930 had been convicted of alcohol and drug offenses, and that figure rises to 75 percent of violators if other commercial prohibitions are included.”
I watch the NatGeo show Drugs Inc. There was an episode about heroin in Phila. The users claim if someone dies taking heroin the junkies seek the death dealer out because they think more dangerous = better.
I really hate when my heroin has elephant tranquilizer in it!
Just when you thought you have read everything that could possibly happen ...
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