Posted on 03/31/2018 8:54:11 PM PDT by BeadCounter
A pipe was the only sign of drug use found near Chris Bennett's body in November. But it looked like the 32-year-old Taunton, Mass., native had stopped breathing and died of an opioid overdose. Bennett's mother, Liisa, couldn't understand what happened. Then she saw the toxicology report.
"I'm convinced he was smoking cocaine that was laced," she says. "That's what he had in his system, [it] was cocaine and fentanyl."
Liisa Bennett was shocked. Chris had developed an addiction to pain pills and then heroin in his late teens but had not used opioids for at least 10 years, as far as she knew. Bennett had warned her son that if he ever used opioids again, he'd be in greater danger of an overdose because fentanyl, an opioid drug more powerful than heroin, was mixed into much of the supply.
(Excerpt) Read more at kpbs.org ...
Often, an overdose death is strong advertising for the dealer. Addicts hearing that someone died of an overdose don’t think, “Wow, that could happen to me!” Rather, they think, “WOW, that must be some good stuff! I wonder where I can get some?”
I fail to see what the problem is.
Right, like the current efforts of states to decriminalize marijuana has caused the marijuana market to crash? I don’t think so. Every time something is legalized, you get way more of it.
Decriminalize and watch the drug market fall apart.
Decriminalize it and watch the drug market flourish. I just spent today in downtown Orlando stepping over dozens of winos. Increase the availability and lower the cost of a cheap high better than alcohol and they will flock to it.
No, being a drug addict is the deadly problem. The poisoned drugs is just the odds that something can and will go wrong catching up with them so that something going wrong is factually added in on top of it.
I mean, the producers dealers are “criminals” selling you **** that’s gonna **** you up sooner or later ... do you expect ethics from them?
Drug addiction is a terrible thing
mother, your son was a drug abuser, an addict apparently and it doesn't make one bit of difference what the heck he died of....he was heading down that path already...
Come on over to Ocala. I have yet to see a drunk or addict camped out on the street.
Drug addiction: what some nitwits do instead of eating tide pods
it keeps a lot of social service agencies in business...
lets not forget that Catholic charities and Lutheran services get govt money for all the "good" that they do..
basically they don't want a thrifty working class...they want sheeple....
cynical, that's me...
Not directing this at any one person, but it’s always hilarious to see the potheads come out of the woodwork when stories like this get posted.
It’s not a “new wrinkle”. The media has decided that American doctors are to blame for the epidemic.
Nary a mention of the Fentanyl coming over from China. It’s ALL lumped in to the “opioid epidemic”.
Illegal and deadly Fentanyl comes from Red China and Mexico.
Do I have to say any more?
Taking an illegal drug with an unknown background and compounder is the issue.
I don’t have a problem with this. Illegal drugs are always laced with cr@p.
You get what you deserve, in this case.
Asinine!
A Chinese manufactured epidemic...
In October, the Department of Justice announced the first-ever indictments of two Chinese nationals accused of shipping fentanyl to the United States. VICE News contacted the Chinese government to ask about the fentanyl cases and was granted a rare interview with an official from the National Narcotics Control Commission, the Chinese equivalent of the DEA.
Yu Haibin, the agency’s director of precursor chemical control, said the two suspects indicted by the United States have not been arrested because there’s no evidence they violated Chinese law. Yu also said state-level marijuana legalization in the United States has contributed to the opioid crisis and the demand for the fentanyl.
“It’s hard to blame the crimes and abuses of fentanyl on one country alone,” Yu said. “This is not objective and overly arbitrary. Many states in the U.S. are still legalizing the use of marijuana. These trends certainly contribute to the abuse of fentanyl-type substances.”
IOW, we will continue ot make the **** that will kill/weaken our enemy.....
Cheap syth opiates flooding the US, driving down the price and feeding the addiction.... Its like we need a border wall or something.
The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, causing an estimated 19,000 fatal overdoses in 2016. The DEA says most of the illicit fentanyl comes from China, either shipped directly to U.S. consumers through the mail or mixed with heroin that is smuggled across the southern border by Mexican drug cartels.
At New York City’s JFK airport, the point of entry for about 60 percent of the country’s international mail packages, seizures of fentanyl by Customs and Border Protection agents increased from 7 in 2016 to 84 in 2017.
All of the packages came from China.
Nationwide, fentanyl seizures by CBP increased from 459 pounds in 2016 to 1,296 pounds last year.
Just think of it as evolution in action.
From what I’ve heard, having a few deaths among your customers means you’ve got the good stuff (i.e., strong, worth paying for, etc.) Druggies don’t like to spend their money on stuff that won’t get you off.
Sh*t will kill you instantly, particularly if it’s veterinary carfentanil. Which is 4 times stronger than The human version. Prison where I was an officer, we found one guy with the needle still in his arm. Even touching it in its powdered form with bare skin is enough to cause a fatal overdose.
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