Posted on 05/06/2017 9:58:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Investigators who nicknamed the street mixture have detected it or recorded overdoses blamed on it in Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. The drug looks like concrete mix and varies in consistency from a hard, chunky material to a fine powder.
The substance is a combination of several opioids blamed for thousands of fatal overdoses nationally, including heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil — sometimes used to tranquilize large animals like elephants — and a synthetic opioid called U-47700.
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Last year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration listed U-47700 in the category of the most dangerous drugs it regulates, saying it was associated with dozens of fatalities, mostly in New York and North Carolina. Some of the pills taken from Prince's estate after the musician's overdose death last year contained U-47700.
Gray death has a much higher potency than heroin, according to a bulletin issued by the Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. Users inject, swallow, smoke or snort it.
Georgia's investigation bureau has received 50 overdose cases in the past three months involving gray death, most from the Atlanta area, said spokeswoman Nelly Miles.
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In Ohio, the coroner's office serving the Cincinnati area says a similar compound has been coming in for months. The Ohio attorney general's office has analyzed eight samples matching the gray death mixture from around the state.
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“...people with emphysema that Continue to smoke, people with heart disease who continue to eat poorly and not exercise, and people with diabetes who continue to eat what they want and gain weight. Their disease process is just more socially acceptable.”
Exactly! Those bad decision diseases are acceptable. Now, the libtards want drug addicts more acceptable. Preexisting condition mandate is the greatest evil there is. It rots the nation.
The solution to this, beside personal responsibility, is there should be shaming of people that get diseases due to their own stupidity and laziness. Now they are celebrated and called victims of preexisting conditions.
They can't make money on a criminal if he's in the can.... They need to get him back on the streets as soon as possible...
Truth is, the law enforcement community makes a hell of a lot more money on crime then criminals do.... Personally I like Rodrigo Duterte's answer to the problem.....
” You probably won’t because you don’t appear to have a heart let alone common decency.”
So you think THAT was taking the high road? Maybe you’re just too undisciplined and an enabler and that causes your loved one to lose control and do drugs.
“You may not be, but the “addicts need help” crowd is demanding taxpayers’ money to do so.”
Exactly! I am tired of paying for someone else’s lack of self-discipline and bad choices.
Actually most are uninsured and I make little. How does that mitigate my sympathy for their families?
I like it and miss John Wayne!
Revision?
“The Governor, Wolf blames the Pharmaceutical Industry “
Yes indeed. Let’s see, heroin is being imported in such quantities that it’s plentiful, strong, and cheap, dope labs in Mexico and China are synthesizing stronger and stronger opioids and sending them across the border. Hmmm here is an obvious fix, go after American pharm industry and MDs!
And it does not respond to the single use inhaler anti-detox for OD’s either.
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