Posted on 10/18/2022 5:53:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Both more powerful and more dangerous than heroin, fentanyl is becoming more cmmonplace throughout the U.S.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has sent out an advisory to the public regarding the opioid crisis, specifically warning of the presence of brightly-colored fentanyl pills in general circulation. The presence of highly addictive “rainbow fentanyl” is a trend which potentially targets young people.
I’ve known of fentanyl my entire medical career. My professional experience with it involved use during general anesthesia on patients undergoing surgery and epidurals during labor. It has also been used in combat casualties and cancer patients in the form of “lollipops” for pain relief and sedation.
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FENTANYL DANGERS
Unfortunately, there are serious risks associated with the use of fentanyl. You can expect sedation, confusion, drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, urinary retention, pupillary constriction, and respiratory depression. This highly addictive substance leads to serious physical dependence in addition to tolerance (the need for higher doses over time to get the same “high”).
Additional dangers relate to the tendency for fentanyl powder to be mixed in with heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. As it can’t be identified by sight, taste, or smell, it would require a lab analysis or special test strips to identify. This practice of “cutting” drugs with fentanyl causes the user to inadvertently be given a dose much stronger than ordinarily expected from, say, heroin. Indeed, accidental exposure of fentanyl to skin can be lethal in doses as low as 0.25 milligrams.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Floyd had a deadly cocktail, including meth and obesity factors.
I know. I’m just pointing out what needs to be done, instead of fomenting war with RUS v UKR.
I believe after we took control of Afghanistan, the poppy yields increased to the highest ever. Funny that...
Our entire military says “nuk-u-lar”.
Football has “DE-fence”.
I agree about phonics.
However, medical drugs are a unique language.
Drug brand names are one full step past language - they are usually the nonsense combination of three or four random syllables.
“I think the first thing people who talk about Fentanyl is to learn how to pronounce it. It’s not Fenta-nol. It’s Fenta-nil. Every time I hear it I just hear Nukular.............”
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Spot on. How people pronounce these is a leading indicator of their IQ and political awareness.
I was going to write this exact post myself.
Thank you.
It was given to my son when he had his wisdom teeth taken out.
His heart rate spiked to 165 and they could not get it down.
So, they rushed him to the hospital a mile away.
The nurse at the emergency room told me they gave him four different drugs. He was released about six hours later. The oral surgeon paid for his trip to the hospital and we did not get a bill for his wisdom teeth.
I know. It’s good to vent every once in a while. :)
Apparently, I’m a “Putinista” and a Russian agent because I don’t care about RUS v UKR.
I thought I was a USAF Veteran and a Nationalist.
But, people who don’t know me clearly know my motives better...
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Excellent article. Glad it was posted. Tells us all a lot about the drug that most of us didn’t know.
Pronouncing it right will go a long way to fix the problem.
I’ve encountered several of these people you speak of..
There is no reasoning with them..
I don’t care whay ‘Cambridge’ says. any word with ‘nyl’ isn’t a ‘nal’ in my book. These word organizations are becoming far too willing to bastardize the language for the sake of uninformed common usage.
Why not just go for the street name and do away with it all?
Fent, Fenty, Blonde.....China White....
Clearly they are mind readers. Also they don't mind peeing away millions and millions of dollars on a stupid war in which we are not involved.
Maybe so. The dumbing down of America.
Like I said, none of this fixes the fentanyl overdose problem.
The entire South has "UM-brell-a" and "AM-byoo-lance."
Fentanyl is helping rid us of undesirables, isn’t it?
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