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What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in US drug overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains
The Conversation ^ | November 16, 2023 9.37am EST | Staff

Posted on 11/17/2023 11:16:56 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/17/2023 11:16:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Buying street drugs is definitely Russian Roulette.

The son of the one Dana Carvey died of a drug overdose just a day or so back.

2 posted on 11/17/2023 11:20:07 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: Red Badger
> One measure to prevent fentanyl overdose is distributing naloxone to bystanders. <

Here’s another option:


3 posted on 11/17/2023 11:21:09 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right
Here’s another option

Agreed.
4 posted on 11/17/2023 11:30:10 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: Leaning Right

Valid if the majority in a given state allow, but patently unconstitutional for the feds who have been delegated NO constitutional authority to meddle with drug use at all.

5 posted on 11/17/2023 11:33:19 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Leaning Right

Was in Singapore for a couple months a while back. The law is the law and they enforce it like they mean it. Even littering will land you in front of a judge. Borderline authoritarian, but one of the very lowest crime rates in the world.

And in regards to littering, it is hands down one of the cleanest major cities I’ve ever seen.


6 posted on 11/17/2023 11:36:24 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Red Badger

A big part of the problem is that fentanyl is so concentrated.. and carfentanyl(for anesthetizing animals like elephants ) is even worse.

It takes a good compounding chemist or pharmacist to safely measure the proper amounts and the mixing MUST be VERY accurate and uniform.


7 posted on 11/17/2023 11:37:14 AM PST by Bobalu (I can’t even feign surprise anymore.)
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To: Red Badger

Here’s an idea.

Don’t do drugs.


8 posted on 11/17/2023 11:41:34 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Laws are useless unless enforced.

They are just virtue signaling without it.


9 posted on 11/17/2023 11:43:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Red Badger

The original author is Kavita Babu, MD.


10 posted on 11/17/2023 11:45:43 AM PST by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Red Badger
Street rats can't gauge potency, can't remember their dosage, and cross-morbid with sure-fire exit combos like Xanax. Why are we worried about this again? Other than the PLA attempting to exact an old grudge for the Opium Wars.

F Xi, F everything that looks like him (basically, China), F his generals, F the CCP, F communism, F confucianism; dirty godless m--------- swine are going to be swimming in radioactive glass plasma in their lifetimes.

11 posted on 11/17/2023 11:47:44 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Jim W N

> but patently unconstitutional for the feds <

The feds have authority at the national border, and when anything crosses state lines.


12 posted on 11/17/2023 11:49:54 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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13 posted on 11/17/2023 11:51:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Nice read.

THX


14 posted on 11/17/2023 11:51:50 AM PST by Red6
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To: Bobalu

The Police Chief’s Guide to Carfentanyl
https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/police-chiefs-guide-carfentanyl/

Although there are proper uses for this, the world would be better off if this did not exist.


15 posted on 11/17/2023 11:54:42 AM PST by Bobalu (I can’t even feign surprise anymore.)
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To: Leaning Right
The feds have authority at the national border, and when anything crosses state lines.

Good point. Those are the exceptions. But that is not how the totalitarian feds are operating these days.

And the problem is not the exceptions, but the rule that the feds operate mostly unconstitutionally and, thus, illegally.

16 posted on 11/17/2023 11:55:22 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

Legalize it, let people buy it, properly made, at CVS or their pharmacy.

It’s not a damned bit of any government’s business what I put in my body unless I’m driving or such.

Don’t use it, or any such thing, but prefer the ‘self-cleaning oven’ to anything the FDA or DEA can or will do.


17 posted on 11/17/2023 12:02:51 PM PST by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

Sure. They did that. Here’s what happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwcp2mcOH0Y


18 posted on 11/17/2023 12:05:02 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Red Badger

Wait a dang minute. 100,000 ODs pales in comparison to AR-15 impacts. Everybody knows that. 🤔😳. /S


19 posted on 11/17/2023 12:10:44 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Red Badger

Although it wasn’t what killed him, I remember first hearing about fentanyl when Michael Jackson died. And he was under a “doctor’s” care...


20 posted on 11/17/2023 12:16:03 PM PST by bigbob
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