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Aerosolized fentanyl is literally produced for administration as a painkiller [1]. And there is also the Russian theater incident. Nurses handle prediluted sol

Aerosolized fentanyl is literally produced for administration as a painkiller [1]. And there is also the Russian theater incident. Nurses handle prediluted solutions (at the level of 50mcg/ml). That is still very strong but not the same as unknown quantities of unknown potency being secretly shipped around and mixed up by untrained dealers. Currently, all the time, people mix up drugs with synthetics that they know can kill and sell it to unsuspecting people, who then die by the dozens. Some states already treat this as poisoning and manslaughter. Is this really that different from the scenario I’m describing? [1] https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a612015.html https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a612015.html

chimeracoder 3y ago
> Aerosolized fentanyl is literally produced for administration as a painkiller There are literally orders of magnitude of difference between fentanyl administered as a nasal spray and fentanyl being used as a weapon. They're not remotely comparable. > And there is also the Russian theater incident. I don't know why people keep bringing this up. There is zero evidence that fentanyl or its derivatives were responsible for any deaths. The claim that fentanyl was responsible is based on a single study which claimed to find fentanyl on one sample of clothing and in the urine of two survivors, something which has a lot more plausible explanations.