Posted on 05/02/2025 4:31:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new deadly drug called carfentanil is in Santa Clara County, medical experts say.
It's a synthetic opioid like fentanyl, but much stronger.
On Wednesday, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jordan announced that the county's first overdose death due to carfentanil was reported last week.
"Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl," Dr. Jordan said.
National Fentanyl Awareness Day highlights the dangers of the drug causing a crisis in San Francisco and killing thousands across the country.
Last week, a 39-year-old man was found dead with M30 pills, counterfeit pills made to look like prescription oxycodone.
"What I'm really worried about -- and the reason I want people to be made aware of this -- is because some of the pills that are sold off the street could be potentially laced with carfentanil," Dr. Jordan said.
Jordan said this recent death means the drug is out there, and fake pills look real.
When it comes to treatment, Cheryl Ho, the county's Behavioral Health Medical Director for substance use, said there's been a lot of focus on the treatment of opioid use disorder.
"We would like to be there, provide services, let you know what's offered," Ho said. "You know, you don't have to be perfect or gotten somewhere to get help. You can be just anywhere in your journey, and there is some sort of help available. And so I think really we've been working hard these past years to really orient our services more towards meeting people where they're at."
A Santa Rosa father who lost his son to an accidental fentanyl overdose is making it his "goal" to warn others about the dangers of the drug. The county's Opioid Overdose Prevention Project offers free naloxone - the overdose-reversing drug - by mail to anyone 18 or older.
Dr. Jordan said her office will sound the alarm on any drugs they see in the community.
"So this stack are all the postmortem toxicology reports of drug-related fatalities," she said, pointing to a large stack of papers on all the overdose deaths she's handled since 2019. "What does that say to me? It says to me that there are a lot of individuals that are dying from drug overdoses, but most importantly, there are a lot of families that are impacted by the drug crisis."
Carfentanil has already been reported on the East Coast and Midwest.
“Time to go “Full Singapore” on dealers.”
And users, if they can’t stay clean after a stint in tough love rehab. It is the only way that works. Everything else is just rearranging the chairs.
I don’t know about heroin, but if it is anything like morphine, I’ll tell you it just makes you feel like a million bucks. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and you feel great. I can see why people do it.
I am sorry for your loss. You nephew is one of the thousands of young people murdered by the CCP. Hold no shame.
I am sorry for your loss. Your grandson was murdered by the CCP and the illegal drugs. God saw what happened.
I can understand how pain killers might cause addiction.. I have genetic problems with pain killers so I don’t even have the benefit of an oxy high. It’s probably why I have such a hard time understanding all of this.
The thing us, beyond their decision to take a drug and harm themselves, they can harm others a face less of a punishment.
Package marked ‘Brain Seizure’: Hey Trevor, let’s swallow some of this stuff.
That is true,
Emotional hurt is difficult
to measure.
Here, here!! Hoist them up Iran style.
I can’t understand why they would want to kill their customers.
re: “A new deadly drug called carfentanil “
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Carfentanil articles posted on FR going back to 2016...
https://freerepublic.com/tag/carfentanil/index
Carfentanil was first synthesized in 1974 by a team of chemists at Janssen Pharmaceutica, led by Paul Janssen.
Those the CCP didn’t kill with covid will be finished off with fentanyl.
the minimum dose to kill you is soooo small, it’s hard for me to understand how there’s enough in the system to detect...
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Sometimes I think that Antifa rioters should be told by loudspeakers mounted on water cannons: „Go home or you all will be sprayed with dihydrogen monoxide, it is always lethal if breathed!“
They would be running like gazelles at the sight of a lion😄
Sorry, I meant „inhaled“. Silly me 🤭
Awe, so sorry to hear that.
You have my sincerest sympathy.
It isn’t murder if you demand to take such dangerous drugs.
One tragedy affects a whole bunch of people. This country must be loaded with people in various stages of grief for various reasons and we aren’t even at war.
You had me silenced you German POS. Payback for Germany is coming.
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