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On a micro level, I live in the US and I don't know anyone who takes fentanyl. "Every corner" is likely journalistic hyperbole.

vuln 3y ago
Brown heroin doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all fent, they’re even cutting coke with fent which makes absolutely no sense to me. It started with oxys until the gov cracked down then everyone went to brown heroin until fent arrived. Report of Fentanyl in coke circa 2018. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-039-18.pdf https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-039-18.p... https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-being-increasingly-laced-with-fentanyl https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-be...
- 15457345234 3y ago
  > makes absolutely no sense It makes a lot of sense if you assume they're trying to kill everyone
  - hotpotamus 3y ago
    I assume drug dealers like recurring revenue as much as a SaaS company does and it's hard to get recurring revenue from a dead person.
- gus_massa 3y ago
  Last year here in Argentina we had a cocaine lot cut with carfentanil. IIRC the big drug dealers detected that something was wrong and decided to throw it away. But they had an internal miscommunication (or steal) and the drug was sell anyway. The result was 24 death and like 100 hospitalizations (and probably more unreported cases). Even the Security Minister of our biggest province said on TV something like: paraphrasing> If you bought cocaine yesterday, please discard it. It may be the bad one. One of the reports during the problem: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/argentina-tainted-cocaine-deaths-officials https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/argentina-tain... One report one year later: https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-year-without-answers-to-the-24-deaths-from-laced-cocaine-in-argentina.phtml https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-year-without-answe...
matwood 3y ago
Maybe not on purpose. Fentanyl is being used to cut other recreational drugs like cocaine and MDMA.
amanaplanacanal 3y ago
I bet you know people who take illegal drugs. And those drugs could easily have fentanyl in them, unknowing.

vuln 3y ago

Brown heroin doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all fent, they’re even cutting coke with fent which makes absolutely no sense to me. It started with oxys until the gov cracked down then everyone went to brown heroin until fent arrived. Report of Fentanyl in coke circa 2018. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-039-18.pdf https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-039-18.p... https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-being-increasingly-laced-with-fentanyl https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-be...

15457345234 3y ago
> makes absolutely no sense It makes a lot of sense if you assume they're trying to kill everyone
- hotpotamus 3y ago
  I assume drug dealers like recurring revenue as much as a SaaS company does and it's hard to get recurring revenue from a dead person.
gus_massa 3y ago
Last year here in Argentina we had a cocaine lot cut with carfentanil. IIRC the big drug dealers detected that something was wrong and decided to throw it away. But they had an internal miscommunication (or steal) and the drug was sell anyway. The result was 24 death and like 100 hospitalizations (and probably more unreported cases). Even the Security Minister of our biggest province said on TV something like: paraphrasing> If you bought cocaine yesterday, please discard it. It may be the bad one. One of the reports during the problem: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/argentina-tainted-cocaine-deaths-officials https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/argentina-tain... One report one year later: https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-year-without-answers-to-the-24-deaths-from-laced-cocaine-in-argentina.phtml https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-year-without-answe...

matwood 3y ago

Maybe not on purpose. Fentanyl is being used to cut other recreational drugs like cocaine and MDMA.

amanaplanacanal 3y ago

I bet you know people who take illegal drugs. And those drugs could easily have fentanyl in them, unknowing.