‘One pill will kill’: Florida AG warns of ‘Frankenstein’ opioid 40 times more potent than fentanyl

Bizpac Review ^ | February 26, 2023 | Melissa Fine

[Red Badger]

Florida’s Attorney General, Republican Ashley Moody, is calling on her state to add a frightening new “Frankenstein” opioid that is reportedly 40 times more potent than fentanyl to the list of Schedule 1 controlled substances, a designation that stipulates the drug has no acceptable medical use and carries a high risk for abuse.

Other drugs to receive that classification include heroin, ecstasy, and peyote, among others.

Officially known as “nitazene compounds,” Moody warns “one pill will kill,” and it’s already spreading across America.

“For years, I have been warning about how just one pill laced with fentanyl can kill, but with some of these nitazene compounds that message is becoming, one pill will kill,” Moody told Fox News Digital (FND) this week. “It is important to bring awareness to Floridians of all ages—do not take any illicit drug, just one use could cost you your life.”

According to Moody’s office, compounds such as isotonitazene (ISO) are “significantly more potent than fentanyl.”

Florida first recorded nitazenes in the Sunshine State in 2020. By 2022, Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement recorded 140 instances in which the drug was found in the state. Thus far, 34 instances have been recorded in 2023.

“Last year, I signed an emergency rule temporarily adding these deadly nitazene compounds to the Schedule I controlled substance list,” Moody told FND. “I am proud to announce my support for SB 736, which will permanently add these incredibly deadly drugs to the Schedule I list.”

Nitazenes are often mixed with heroin or fentanyl, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

“Nitazenes were synthesized in the 1950s as novel opioids, but their prospects were cut short when unacceptable toxicities of sedation and respiratory depression were noted,” the AAFP explains. “Unregulated laboratories in China have more recently been manufacturing the nitazenes currently circulating in North America.”

Cheaper than both fentanyl and heroin to produce, those using illicit substances often don’t know they’ve been laced with the killer compounds.

Ohio first sounded the alarm over the nitazenes last April.

“Frankenstein opioids are even more lethal than the drugs already responsible for so many overdose deaths,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said at the time, according to FND. “Law enforcement and the public need to pay attention to these emerging hazards.”

Nitazenes have reportedly been found from San Francisco to the mid-Atlantic, FND states, and, according to the AAFP, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “has tracked a cluster of nitazine-related deaths in Tennessee.”

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told FND that the effect of the Frankenstein opioids will have a “devastating” effect on his state if action isn’t quickly taken to stop their flow.

“It’s no secret that the opioid epidemic has destroyed communities nationwide – including many Virginia localities.,” he told FND. “‘Frankenstein’ opioids, which are even more powerful than the incredibly lethal and potent fentanyl, are the newest variation and are guaranteed to have a devastating effect on Virginians if we do not take swift and decisive action.”

To that end, Miyares is leading a coalition of 21 state attorneys general that are calling on the Biden administration to declare drug cartels as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.” In the meantime, he is championing the “One Pill Can Kill” campaign across his state.

And in Washington D.C., the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned residents in June 2022 of “ISO” specifically.

“First identified around 2019 in the Midwest, this dangerous drug has moved into the Southern states and, more recently, along the Eastern seaboard,” the DEA stated at the time. “Much more potent than heroin and morphine (similar to fentanyl), ISO is being mixed into and marketed as other drugs to make drugs more potent and cheaper to produce. The major concern: This drug can and has caused deadly overdoses in unsuspecting victims.”

Republished with permission from American Wire News Service

[shadowlands1960]

It’s almost like someone is deliberately trying to kill Americans... probably just my paranoia flaring up....

[BitWielder1]

I don't understand how this business model is supposed to work.
Unless someone with deep pockets is trying to exterminate junkies.

[ronniesgal]

just don’t take street drugs? Too easy of an answer?

[BBQToadRibs2]

You typically look for repeat customers. Killing them off is a terrible business model. But we’re not dealing with the brightest entrepreneurs.

[adorno]

a designation that stipulates the drug has no acceptable medical use and carries a high risk for abuse

That being the case, it is incumbent upon government at all levels to declare that, anyone manufacturing or selling that kind of drug, is eligible for the death penalty, since it's only use is for killing people. Same with fentanyl.



If you're not a doctor or pharmacist and you are selling or recommending or giving someone a deadly substance, you are doing it to kill people.

A gun can be used to kill people, but it's also used for self-defense. A deadly drug has no use as a self-defense weapon.

Therefore, the Mexican cartels and the Chinese manufacturers that are bringing the deadly drugs into the U.S., are doing it for the sole purpose of killing Americans.

We went to battle in Afghanistan because the enemy imported their terrorism agenda into the U.S. and killed around 3,000 Americans. The deadly drugs are being imported into the U.S. and have killed some 200,000-300,000 Americans in the last few years. Which act has been most deadly? Not even close!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I guess the expression “take a chill pill” has a new meaning.

[Dutch Boy]

Either that or the “one pill will kill” description is not correct. I suspect that there are cases where that might occur but you are correct, it it was 100%, it would be a bad business model for return customers.

Having a drug addict in the family, the prospect of death from overdose does not seem to be a concern. Maybe the rush of having the high is more important that life.

[Phoenix8]

We should identify the Chinese ships carrying these drugs and the Mexican cartels who sell and distribute them.

Then concentrate attacks and in a week capture as many Chinese ships carrying drugs as possible , permanently seize or sink them and put all the Chinese workers in prison. While we hit every single cartel building we know of with drones and cruise missiles.

Dam the consequences, let’s stand up and fight for this country for once and not some distant war 5000 miles away.

Of course It will happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNy—_r5eW0

[BipolarBob]

It will chill your body temperature.

[Lumper20]

I recall when the VA used Fentanyl Patches from 25-100. The 25 were non opioid. No MD I know uses them anymore. It is obvious to me that these invaders want money from junkies and once they are broke they kill them.

[Boardwalk]

The Biden regime only cares about ending gun violence. If a gun did not kill them there is no narrative against the legal gun owners who break no laws.

[ssfromla]

There is a war on American soil being waged against every citizen of this country. It only takes but a minute to read the headlines across the country to see it unfolding.

They are coming in unabated with drugs and human trafficking because of the border problem(s) that Joe Biden and the Democrats have created.

Pretty soon and I'm calling it right here and now. The time is coming when their gated communities will no longer keep these situations they've created from their doors.

Another thing they have done is play all of us against each other. All of it is a diversion so those they have whipped into a frenzie can't see clearly to what the real danger is.

It's not stupidity nor mismanagement. No. That is not what is going on at the border or the rest of America (including the shootings in city after city). It is INTENTIONAL. Yes. It is all intentional.

The malfeasance in government has to end. On both sides because believe me, we are being played by both sides.

If the elections of 2020 and 2022 wasn't proof enough for the minority that thought their votes counted then by God they should see now that their votes haven't counted for years.

[ssfromla]

It’s almost like someone is deliberately trying to kill Americans... probably just my paranoia flaring up....

No. It's not paranoia. You have a right to believe that and you have a good head on your shoulders.

[ssfromla]

just don’t take street drugs? Too easy of an answer?

That would be a suggestion but they (cartels and other countries coming across the border) will begin to put the drugs in places other than drug addicts hands.

Just imagine it being put in water. Maybe a buffet. Sneak into a food plant. The list is limitless to what could be done with those drugs.

[metmom]

Drug users are a self-cleaning gene pool.

[metmom]

just don’t take street drugs? Too easy of an answer?

So it seems.

[Menehune56]

That being the case, it is incumbent upon government at all levels to declare that, anyone manufacturing or selling that kind of drug, is eligible for the death penalty, since it's only use is for killing people. Same with fentanyl.

If only.

[ssfromla]

You typically look for repeat customers. Killing them off is a terrible business model.

That's not who that amount of drugs are for. They're coming after you and your family. I hate to tell you that but it's true.

It's math. There is not enough drug addicts to be pouring that amount of drugs into a country. They could never sell that amount.

I'm not trying to be mean either because it has me so upset as I can imagine everyone else is too.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

This issue generally registers a zero on my valence meter. I know there are a lot of emotional exploitations of this topic (see woman on Fox this week with child who thought he was buying a pain killer on the street only to find that it was adulterated with fentanyl), but it always comes down to responsibility. What was the kid doing buying pain killers on the street? These people are killing themselves by assumption of risk.