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> My friend told me they got heroin with fentanyl without knowing. This is an all too common trend. Most people aren't dying from an accidental overdose, they
by hunterb123 5y ago
> My friend told me they got heroin with fentanyl without knowing.
This is an all too common trend. Most people aren't dying from an accidental overdose, they are being poisoned with fentanyl.
You get addicted to pain killers. Then go to heroin because it's cheaper and more effective. Then you get it laced with fentanyl because dealers are cutting it. Then you die.
To slow it you have to pressure China to stop the labs and you have to crack down on border smugglers, neither will happen anytime soon.
- pennaMan 5y ago> Most people aren't dying from an accidental overdose Yes they are. Before fentanyl contaminated heroin came around most heroin overdoses were because of massive differences in product purity. You know the dosage for your usual 10-20% heroin and when you get a batch of 60%+ you are doing over 3 times your usual dose without having a clue and because heroin has a low delta of LD50 to active dose, your usual dose is now letal. If medical grade heroin was available, with known purity and no contaminants, heroin deaths would drop to almost 0. The drug itself isn't even that distructive in normal dosage, apart from the crippling withdrawl that btw is not letal and dosen't even require hospitalization, unlike benzodiazepine and alcohol withdrawals which can be fatal.
- hunterb123 5y ago> Before fentanyl contaminated heroin came around But today, fentanyl poisoning is fueling the massive increase in deaths, it's over half of all overdose deaths. Benzos are lower than prescription opioids, heroin, and cocaine in terms of overdose death. https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...