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Killer batch of white heroin responsible for at least 100 deaths across the country
The Daily Mail ^
| 2-2-14
| Ryan Gorman
Posted on 02/02/2014 3:57:22 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Heroin overdose deaths across the country are spiking as a deadly new variant of the drug mixed with a powerful painkiller is spreading from New Hampshire to Washington State.
The lethal combination of heroin and fentanyl, an opiate used to soothe the pain of cancer patients, is blamed for about 100 deaths from coast to coast. It is variously labelled as bud ice, income tax and theraflu, authorities say.
The hardest hit states in the epidemic are Maryland, with more than three dozen deaths since September, and Pennsylvania, with almost two dozen this month alone, according to reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugs; fentynol; heroin; killerheroin; overdose; philipseymourhoffman; psh; wod; wosd
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Record heroin deaths- caused by something besides the Democrat Party profiting from Afghan heroin.
Anything besides that...says the media.
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:28:03 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Phillip Seymore Hoffman???
To: afraidfortherepublic
Since the substance is illegal, there is no dose.That's what happens when you get accustomed to bureaucracrats running everything. They hijack the proper scientific / clinical meanings of words and replace them with statutory / regluatory meanings.
IMHO, being able and willing to easily integrate that change into and replace those meanings in our thought processes is not a good thing.
To: DemforBush
Fentanyl is the same drug the Russians used on the terrorist in the theater. It's a synthetic drug that can be made strong enough to sedate elephants. I've seen it in the form of lollipops and adhesive patches for pain.
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:36:58 PM PST
by
peeps36
(I' Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags of All Colors)
To: James C. Bennett
Well we get a bill for it every few months so in a certain way it is.
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:40:06 PM PST
by
xp38
To: peeps36
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:41:56 PM PST
by
moovova
To: driftdiver
But, if only drugs were legal...
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:43:05 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Did it kill that actor in NYC.I read that he was found with the needle still in his arm.
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:47:01 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
To: driftdiver
wait are you trying to say heroin is bad for you? Not if it's "medicinal" or "recreational" heroin.
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:48:19 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
To: choctaw man
white heroin responsible for at least 100 deaths across the country The object is responsible, not the user. LOL Especially the White Heroin, next we will hear that a disproportionate number of the victims were Black. That damn White racism on attack again!
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:52:10 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: livius; mylife
I was just wondering about that myself.
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:53:00 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: afraidfortherepublic
So without the painkiller, heroin is safe?
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:54:45 PM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: livius
nope, Ace of Spades, talk about free advertizing...
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:58:31 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: bigheadfred
Change what? Don’t put heroin in your body and you won’t die from heroin.
It’s no different than people blaming a gun for killing someone and not the person who actually shot the gun.
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:02:04 PM PST
by
beandog
(All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Hair-splitting If it kills, it was too much - an overdose
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:05:52 PM PST
by
Insigne123
(It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
To: beandog
no i meant stupid people do stupid things and you cant fix stupid
To: afraidfortherepublic
The continued use of the phrase “partner” for a hetero relationship seems strange ... looks like they are trying to defuse a code-word.
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:06:59 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
is blamed for about 100 deaths from coast to coastI kinda think it's the shooter's fault, myself.
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:07:22 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. E)
To: NonValueAdded
In the Philip Seymour Hoffman article linked in post 10, that is.
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:08:06 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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