Posted on 09/06/2021 8:20:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A tainted batch of fentanyl-laced cocaine killed comedian Fuquan Johnson and two other victims and left comedian Kate Quigley hospitalized on Sunday night, amid a growing crisis of fentanyl surging across the southern border.
Comedian Fuquan Johnson, two others dead after overdose on fentanyl-laced coke: Report https://t.co/gOiOnAauJq
pic.twitter.com/VmNfZdKLZC— New York Post (@nypost) September 6, 2021
Johnson and fellow comedians Enrico Colangeli and Natalie Williamson died at a Venice home on Sunday as the result of an apparent overdose, TMZ reported. In a screenshot shared to Twitter, Quigley, former girlfriend of singer-songwriter Darius Rucker, told a friend she was “not great” but was “Ok.”
Hug everyone you love..
pic.twitter.com/OFzr0EgRPJ— brian redban (@redban) September 5, 2021
Quigley remains in critical condition, according to sources close to the star.
Fentanyl has been flooding the border for years. Between October 2020 and April 2021, border agents seized almost 6,500 pounds of the lethal drug. In June, federal agents at the southern border said they had seen a shocking 4,000 percent increase in fentanyl seizures over the last three years.
The highly potent drug has become a profitable enterprise for Mexican drug cartels who can easily smuggle the substance into the United States. Multiple reports of fentanyl-laced oxycodone and other drugs have surfaced, causing suspicion of drug-related deaths. The spike in overdose deaths from 2019 to 2020 was fueled by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. About 80 percent of opioid overdose deaths included synthetic opioids.
Fentanyl has contributed to the deaths of singers Prince, Mac Miller, and Tom Petty, among countless other superstars, young adults, and students who ingest otherwise nonlethal amounts of cocaine or heroin.
On Tuesday, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto issued an executive order supporting fentanyl test strips, which detect the presence of the drug. The order comes in response to the rising number of overdoses caused by combined substances in the Pennsylvania city.
New research shows that three-quarters of the 254 opioid overdose deaths reported in Tampa Bay, Florida, were by people who had fentanyl in their system, and across the country, the fentanyl crisis is killing teenagers, the homeless, and more.
Crocodile tears over here.
Died doing what they loved.
Typically drug dealers don’t want their users to OD.
Bad for business.
Hand it out free in the streets. Not only will it put the drug gangs out of business, it will kill off half the criminals.
Me too. The world has suffered a terrible loss. 😉😁
I would bet certain politicians are getting a lot of money by making sure the borders are wide open.
He was 42. He should have learned by now.
I’d never heard of any of these three Amigos before, but so what? I don’t go out and about much anymore.
Funny how all these OD’s are happening at once.
Maybe there were a few ‘bad batches’ of meth sold and distributed.
I do know back in the 70’s, there was a scare for marijuana smokers near Central Ohio, where I attended college.
Word was, some kind of insecticide had been sprayed over many of the big MJ farms. I kept hearing about the chemical called Paraquot.
That’s a shame. Who?
The US still has comedians?
Who knew?
There was a study in the late 1970’s done in New York City. It found that urban black men had a 5% mortality rate due violence by the time they were forty five. Imagine if that study were done today and in addition to violence included drug overdoses and AIDS related deaths, that number probably approached 10%.
The US Southern border is wide-open. Sorry, but you're just another American casualty of leftist politics.
Actor Michael Williams just died today as well, he was in that TV show the Wire. I was saying this to leftists today on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, that we are having mass deaths of drug addicts because fentanyl from China that floods into Mexico now has no problem coming over the border and of course they blamed Trump. I told them how ironic that Joe Biden is now responsible for killing off celebrities
https://nypost.com/2021/09/06/actor-michael-k-williams-found-dead-in-nyc-apartment/
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
When 2mg is an OD, today’s dealers have to have a level of expertise well above what their average IQ can handle to be able to cut and dose their product properly and not kill their customers. Carfentanyl is 100 times more potent. Many more are going to die. The bigger problem is that an accidental spill can kill innocents who just touch it.
Don’t do drugs boys and girls.
Ok, if they say so. I just thought comedians were supposed to be funny.
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