Posted on 04/18/2019 12:31:58 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Officials in San Diego County have issued an alert after three people have suffered documented fatal overdoses from a new form of the drug fentanyl know as carfentanil. It would only take 2 mg of the drug to cause a deadly overdose meanwhile it would only take .02 mg of carfentanil to have the same fatal results, CBS Sacramento reported.
Langdon Fielding is an emergency veterinarian at Loomis Basin Equine. He said he uses fentanyl on horses for pain relief.
"Basically it's super strong morphine-like a really strong drug to control pain," said Fielding.
Carfentanil is similar to fentanyl but twice as strong and used in large animals like horses and elephants widely in zoos.
According to the DEA in San Diego County, it is sold in the illegal drug trade and often mixed into a pill to look like Oxycontin or Xanax. Users don't often know what they're taking or where it's coming from. Veterinarians like Fielding aren't surprised it's linked to criminal activity.
"It's even stronger than Fentanyl, so like if you had a motivation to steal either morphine or fentanyl, carfentanil would be that much stronger," said Langdon. "It's like a really concentrated dose of a similar type of drug so I would think the potential to want to steal it would be even higher."
The DEA has quick facts about carfentanil, stressing that it's a synthetic opioid, white, powdery and looks like cocaine or heroin. It's 100 times more potent than fentanyl and trace amounts can kill you.
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all fent bust s last yr also had some carfent...involved....Now as of 3 mo ago ....all fent busts ..even huge ones.....have No carfent mentioned.........why?....dea site says amount size of tiny dust mote can kill....dealers are using drones for delivery in every big city.....imo this is the biggest potential threat situation the U.S. has ever had.....at this point due to total lack of coverage.....im starting to wonder if we are in fact already hostage....to this.
The drug can kill through respiratory depression in microgram amounts. 20 micrograms is a potentially lethal dose.
Nah. That will only be about some people who did something.
More stellar CBS writing and copy editing.
Darwin works 24/7.
Maybe it should be given out free to drug dealers and addicts.
WHOA!...thanks for posting.
I suspect most victims would be Democrats.
I suspect most victims would be Democrats.
Well if it’s a chance that has to be taken... ..okay:)
More stellar CBS writing and copy editing.
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Not even worth critiquing any longer. No one seems to be able to write today. Grammar be racist, yo.
“I believe the Chinese are working on deathstarfentanil: just one molecule will kill everyone on the planet.”
I’d be more concerned about the world’s deadliest joke getting into the wrong hands. Thats why they keep the punchline and joke separate at all costs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbe5qy5274&t=135
I think I read about carfentanil being used for recreation around the same time I heard about ketamine being used for recreation, which I think was about eight years ago. The fact that such trafficking has been allowed to continue unabated for so long is frightening.
It’s not as if the users are breaking into the zoos and veterinary hospitals treating farm animals and stealing it, because that’s a small and finite supply.
I also fear for first responders who show up to an overdose or bust a supplier, and wind up being exposed. Handling of biohazardous materials should not have to become a necessity.
Yup, put a dose on the nose of bullet and administer it in a high speed injection
How long before terrorists get a batch of Fentanyl or Carfentanil, pulverize it and spray it over a large city killing millions?
Whatever happened to a shot of Scotch...?
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