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TLDR: > All of this culminated with my life ending clinically for 8 minutes on Monday night, when I took what looked like a Percocet to take the edge off. It w
by gwbas1c 5y ago
TLDR:
> All of this culminated with my life ending clinically for 8 minutes on Monday night, when I took what looked like a Percocet to take the edge off. It wasn’t Percocet at all, it was Fentanyl, and it sent me almost immediately into cardiac arrest. I’m alive after two doses of Narcan, 8 minutes of CPR, and a defibrillator jolt to my chest.
- StreamBright 5y agoHow is this possible to have access to Fentanyl and have labels?
- celdon25 5y agoIf I'm understanding your question correctly, pills on the black market are manufactured with colors, shapes, imprints in order to imitate other pills, in a counterfeit way. This fentanyl business is a weapon of mass destruction, as far as I'm concerned.
- StreamBright 5y agoI see. So she bought Fentanyl and mixed up with some other medication. This is insanely careless behaviour.
- GormHouj 5y agoPill presses with name-brand impressions are pretty cheaply imported from China these days. Unfortunately this is a very common way of cutting pills with stronger drugs and stretching products for drug dealers. Xanex and Percs are often crushed up, then cut with Fentanyl and vitamins to be re-pressed into the original pill form to be sold on the street as a prescription drug.
- secondcoming 5y agoWho has Fentanyl just lying around? Her poor daughter.
- jlrubin 5y agoi'm assuming she purchased what she thought was percocet and it was actually fentanyl, not that she mixed up her pills
- secondcoming 5y agoAh, that wasn't obvious to me.
- markphip 5y agoWhy do these pills even exist? Are there people that are able to tolerate fentanyl? It does not make sense for drug dealers to kill their customers so I have just never understood why these pills circulate if they are to lethal.
- wand3r 5y ago> Why do these pills even exist Yes people with high tolerance can handle fentanyl. People press fentanyl into perks because percocet is “safer” and more familiar. We wouldnt have these problems if there was a safe and legal route to get drugs. People in withdrawal don’t care about the laws. Pressed fentanyl and fentanyl is everywhere. Edit: This exists because people like to get high and also because people are already addicted. Chinese supply of fentanyl has dwarfed the supply of heroin as it is way cheaper and easier to produce and import. So if you are puking and dopesick as hell you need this to literally function normally. The supply of heroin has gone way down. People don’t care if it is dangerous when they are in withdrawal, or basically just generally. Also, “everyone” other than the user ODs is the mentality. Either it won’t happen to me or I am so depressed/fucked I don’t care if I die. Thats the main attitude in my experience.
- simplestats 5y agoyes it is prescribed for people in severe chronic pain. With opiods people build up a tolerance and then progress to stronger stuff. They end up regularly taking dosages that can potentially kill them, even not as a mistake. It's a very dangerous thing to do and hard to imagine being legalized to the extend addicts would want.
- sprite 5y agoIf you're going to do drugs always test them. A test kit is cheap, have heard of too many people dying from Fentanyl when they thought they were taking something else. https://dancesafe.org/shop/ https://dancesafe.org/shop/
- siva7 5y agoThanks, didn’t know about that