4 ms·

That is a ludicrously small amount, holy moly.

• bootlooped 8y ago
  Wait till you see the lethal dose of one more synthetic opioid: http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wosu2/files/styles/medium/public/201705/heroin_fentanyl_carfentanil.jpg http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wosu2/files/styles/me...
  • vilhelm_s 8y ago
    That picture is misleading. Although the pain relief effect of carfentalin is ~35 times higher than fentanyl, the lethal dose of both drugs is about the same. So carfentanil is actually safer, in the sense that it has a higher therapeutic index. https://twitter.com/davidjuurlink/status/859227636400349184?lang=en https://twitter.com/davidjuurlink/status/859227636400349184?...
• jcranmer 8y ago
  Botox is lethal at ~1ng per kg of body weight. It takes 20,000 times that amount of the compound in question to kill you. (These are both using LD50 numbers).
  • Pharmakon 8y ago
    Botox is a refined form of one of the most lethal substances to humans, it is a poison, and most of all it’s not a recreational drug of abuse commonly smuggled around the world. You also can’t absorb it through your skin like fentanyl and carfentanil. Brief contact with botulinum toxin won’t kill you, but brief contact with a rice-grain sized particle of carfentanil can and will.