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Yep. The important thing to keep in mind when you read these toxicology reports is that it tells you what drugs the person took, but it doesn't tell you what t
by md224 7y ago
Yep.
The important thing to keep in mind when you read these toxicology reports is that it tells you what drugs the person took, but it doesn't tell you what they intended to take.
I hope people don't think that the epidemic of fentanyl deaths is due to fentanyl increasing in popularity among drug users... what increased in popularity was the tendency of immoral drug dealers to lace their heroin with fentanyl in order to increase the strength of it. When you see heroin and fentanyl in a toxicology report, there's a very good chance that the drug user didn't realize they were consuming the latter.
- o-__-o 7y agoProblem is testing won’t always catch hot shots. You gonna test all 25 of them Molly pills to make sure they all good? No.
- dbuder 7y agoNever got into pills of any sort but that's why people grind it all up and put it in caps.
- thrwn_frthr_awy 7y agoThank you for this information. When I read that I assumed that he intentional took fentanyl-laced heroin, but took too much.
- mirimir 7y agoYes. Test. There are fentanyl test kits. And bioassay. Whenever you're using a new batch, test with a few percent of the recommended dose. Then adjust accordingly. Even if your test kit reports that it's OK. Also, it's the damn drug war that's arguably responsible for the fentanyl problem. Fentanyl is about 50 times as potent as heroin. So if you want a kilogram of "heroin", you can mix 20 gm fentanyl with 980 gm lactose. And it's lots easier to smuggle 20 gm than 1000 gm. The problem, though, is that uniformly mixing 20 gm into a kilogram is much harder than you might think. Just one little bit of clumping, and you have a lethal dose.
- Smithalicious 7y agoThey use lactose? Do people with lactose intolerance react to it?
- mirimir 7y agoThat was a classic bulking agent. You want something that's non-toxic, and not hygroscopic. To avoid clumping. But I think that mannitol is more common now.