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.
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And now I had been laughing at your funny joke. Did this make you angry? Why? I wanted to compliment you, not offend you.
Another question: how could I have you „silenced“ on this forum? I have no authority over anybody here. How could I? The moderation has this power, nobody else, if I am not mistaken.
Dear Mr. Wildcard_Redneck,
I have been reading the other threads, in which you had a very heated discussion with fellow Freepers about statements, which Laura Loomer and John Cleese had made on social media, respectively. Several comments have been deleted on the concerned threads, so I cannot reconstruct clearly what the issues at hand had been.
Since these arguments happened at a time when it was the middle of the night where I am, in Central Europe, and I was fast asleep, I do not know why you are angry with me now. Furthermore, your assertion that I had conspired with the moderators on FR to have you removed from the forum has no basis in fact. I am not „in league“ with the moderators, who are just doing their job.
I just called them once when you, a week ago in another debate, asserted that my country should be bombed by the USAF, and I made an annoyed response, for which I apologized. This had indeed been stupid and rude from me, and I could have kicked my own keister for this short-tempered retort of mine 🙁 The moderators, however, kindly removed my offensive words to you after I had asked them to do so.
Still, I thought that after my apology to you, we could have given it a rest. Thus, I was surprised by your pouncing on me now, which came as a really shocking surprise 😳
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