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...as much as 10,000 times more potent than morphine ...In the US Fentanyl caused 20,100 deaths in 2016, a rise of 540% over the past 3 years. https://en.wikip
by tryingagainbro 9y ago
...as much as 10,000 times more potent than morphine
...In the US Fentanyl caused 20,100 deaths in 2016, a rise of 540% over the past 3 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl
Put him in the cell next to El Chappo IMO.
If the government digs they will find something and they have plenty of tools for informers. You cannot manage a billion dollar corporation with thousands of employees by whispering while walking like John Gotti. There's trail...
- couchdive 9y agoyeah and the entire FDA group that allowed this and maybe the pain center doctors who ran pill mills all over the midwest and south? Nah, they are all rich, easier to find a scapegoat, pretend your doing something, and gloat. The life of politics. Maybe declare a war on drugs!
- adventured 9y agoDon't forget the Congress and President that enabled it through legislation. > Maybe declare a war on drugs! Declare a national public health emergency. That'll surely make a dent. "Trump declares opioid epidemic a national public health emergency" http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/donald-trump-opioid-epidemic/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/donald-trump-opioid-e...
- gozur88 9y agoI don't know if it's true in this case, but there are a lot of things for which an official declaration of emergency allows you to tap funds that wouldn't otherwise be available.
- modoc 9y agoA couple random things: 1) I broke my leg quite badly, and after morphine and dilaudid didn't help they put me on fentanyl, which at the dosage they gave me, just barely helped with the pain. I am VERY glad they had that in their arsenal. 2) My understanding is that most Fentanyl deaths are due to heroin being cut with fentanyl (or even replaced with) on the street market and addicts don't know the potency of what they get, and OD. That fentanyl is coming illegally usually from China (either directly or via Mexico, etc..) and is isn't directly the fault of Pharma. If you want to solve that problem you need to either stabilize heroin potency or make it easy to test, etc... also making Narcan cheaply/freely available would save a lot of lives.