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.
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The problem is the drug sniffing dogs and their handlers.
They risk death every day to arrest/save/revive these fools.
I have a state cop friend who is K9 and I pray for him and his dog every day.
Those who rely on pot for revenues have been using many websites to deny the following.
District attorney: Marijuana laced with fentanyl is in Tennessee
http://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/district-attorney-marijuana-laced-with-fentanyl-is-in-tennessee/1057304780
Marijuana laced with opiates causes three overdoses in Painesville Township
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/02/marijauna_laced_with_opiates_c_1.html
Coroner: ‘We Have Seen’ Synthetic Opiates Like Fentanyl Mixed With Marijuana
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/06/21/fentanyl-opiates-marijuana-ohio-coroner/
Ohio coroner: ‘We have seen fentanyl mixed with marijuana’
http://nbc4i.com/2017/06/20/ohio-coroner-we-have-seen-fentanyl-mixed-with-marijuana/
Warning about marijuana laced with fentanyl being sold in Bismarck
http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/warning-about-marijuana-laced-with-fentanyl-being-sold-in-Bismarck-386563421.html
Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Eyed In Cape Cod Near-Death
https://patch.com/massachusetts/marthasvineyard/fentanyl-laced-marijuana-eyed-cape-cod-near-death
Police: Man overdoses after smoking marijuana likely laced with fentanyl
http://www.wcvb.com/article/police-man-overdoses-after-smoking-marijuana-likely-laced-with-fentanyl/11654992
>>It’s not a “new wrinkle”. The media has decided that American doctors are to blame for the epidemic.
Some doctors are to blame. My wife works for a small family practice (she’s not an MD). There are doctors there that have patients for as much as 600 oxycontin pills a month each - many of these patients are there for ‘seasonal depressive disorder’ - i.e. they don’t like winter or for mild depression - I don’t know how anyone can even function taking 20+ oxycontin pills a day.
The place is just waiting for the DEA to show up someday and lockup the handful of doctors that do this - of course this guy is stone himself everyday, so he doesn’t see the problem.
Amen to your friend’s miracle and becoming saved.
You know nothing
Trump is right death to drug dealers, not life in prison, death! Fentanyl is just like cyanide, if there were proof of cyanide poisoning they would be looking for the murderer. This is another way those who hate this country are killing it
I think I read somewhere the traffic accidents have increased a lot in Colorado where I used to live. Boulder must be quite the place now.
It would be interesting to do a study on college-age students GPAs before and after legalization. I bet they’ve gone down considerably.
I think I read somewhere the traffic accidents have increased a lot in Colorado where I used to live. Boulder must be quite the place now.
It would be interesting to do a study on college-age students GPAs before and after legalization. I bet they’ve gone down considerably.
I think I read somewhere the traffic accidents have increased a lot in Colorado where I used to live. Boulder must be quite the place now.
It would be interesting to do a study on college-age students GPAs before and after legalization. I bet they’ve gone down considerably.
So nice I said it Thrice. Sorry I’m on a very sensitive tablet..
First of all, constant use of the term "epidemic" starts us off on the wrong foot. "Epidemics" have causality independent of the afflicted. Nobody goes out to get meningitis, never mind searching desperately for meningitis in dangerous streets in the middle of the night.
Secondly, the vectors of epidemics are not cultivated by the population in danger. Nobody in the cities of Europe devastated by the Black Death kept, and spread about, pet wharf rats.
Thirdly, the "epidemic" meme redirects our attention to "doctors", "Red Chinese", "the border", "the war on drugs", or whatever your preferred target may be, instead of where it belongs - addicts and their illegal suppliers.
In a healthy society, you could leave 55 gallon drums of fentanyl open on every street corner and not have a problem.
Well, any normal person can empathize with this poor woman.
But any normal person finding a dead drug addict with his crack pipe would understand INSTANTLY "what happened".
Yes, you have to say why people want it so desperately that they are willing to do terrible things to get it and are willing to die from using it
I have fused L4/L5 vertebrate with the nifty titanium pedicle screws, locking rods and bone graft assembly. My disc was shot and my spine misaligned. A little momento of my oil rig years. I was not a good candidate for disc replacement due to my age and my degenerative joint disease so surgery was it for me.
The surgeon was honest and told me “no guarantees but he thought he get me a 12° loss of spinal motion and a pain level around 30% of pre surgery. He was pretty close but even so I’ll be taking some form of opioid for the duration. I work full time and I ain’t gonna quit. I’ve used fentanyl patches, oxycotin, delauded, nucynta and others, but only what my doctor prescribed. If you start thinking, “I can handle it” with street drugs you’re gonna meet your maker.
The hell of it is, there are excellent late generation extended release opiods, but your insurance companies will fight tooth, fang and claw to only cover the old school meds that carry the higher risks.
Given time. This problem will fix itself.
Why is it that so many states can’t come up with drugs to use for “humane” capital punishment, but cheap and available fentanyl puts people to permanent sleep painlessly?
Marijuana has been shown to decrease motivation. That alone would be enough to lower GPAs. In addition, it precipitates mental illness, notably psychotic disorder. I do not think the data distinguishes between whether the mental illness arises in a susceptible population or whether everyone is susceptible.
In any case, marijuana damages developing brains. This means that people less than age 25 are the most susceptible to marijuana associated brain damage. This is the bulk of the college population.
The societal implications of the widespread push to decriminalize marijuana are likely to be dire. And like any bad direction that society takes, the full effects of decriminalization won’t be felt for years.
This issue hits too close to home for me, nothing here is directed toward anyone as criticism.
When it comes to addiction, some wrongly use words like “ignorance”, “bad choices”, “stupidity”, etc ... to describe why an addict engages in dangerous behavior that may cause his own suffering, permanent injury or death ... and the addict “gets what he deserves” ...these words are irrelevant. Perhaps these words arguably may be relevant when the first drink / dose / hit / drop / toke / snort is taken, but not relevant once addiction has set in.
Substance addiction is a progressive disease. For those who think I might be making an excuse for addicts, I pre-emptively respond - I am not.
Addiction causes great pain, suffering, crime, financial costs, imprisonment, etc .. the cost to the addict’s loved ones, the families, neighborhoods and communities, and hence to our nation. In the election of 2016, Trump not only brought this issue forward, but led/leads it. And it looks like he is getting traction. There were BHO in the WH, and HRC the nominee - basically doing and saying nothing, or doing and supporting things (like open borders) that makes a bad situation worse. We citizens cannot sit on the sideline and look at this through Darwinian glasses. For a dose of reality - go to the front lines to the places that try to help the addicts, or their families. If that doesn’t move your heart and mind, and maybe action, then things are even worse for our country.
There are plenty of cheap drugs on the streets today, I remain unconvinced that decriminalize will make it cheaper. It will allow the government to regulate and tax it, but there will still be “bottlegging” - like selling vegetables out of your garden at the road side.
Quality control... this might make the non-addict community feel better, but it won’t relieve the dangers and the negative effects, the suffering, the health problems, the vagrancy, the crime to get money to feed their habit, etc. High functioning addicts (you know people with professions, jobs etc) will like your suggestion though...until their health and lives are destroyed.
I read an article the other day that THC, the principle psychoactive constituent of cannabis, may increase “heroin-seeking behavior”, but other prevalent cannabinoid (CBD) does the opposite.
The “non-toxicity” position does not address the pyschological impacts.
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