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Fentanyl has changed everything. The only "old" drug comparable with it is heroin, and it has always been pretty expensive and required "dedication" (intravenou
by cyberax 3y ago
Fentanyl has changed everything. The only "old" drug comparable with it is heroin, and it has always been pretty expensive and required "dedication" (intravenous use) from abusers.
Fentanyl is cheap, so a daily dose even for a heavy user is apparently less than $30 now ( https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/22/cheap-street-fentanyl-san-francisco/ https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/22/cheap-street-fentanyl-san-... ). It's also easy to get into, you just smoke it off a foil, no need for scary syringes.
And once you get addicted, you're a walking dead. The success rate for fentanyl addiction treatment is apparently less than 1%. ONE PERCENT. Even for heroin, it's around 5%.
So yeah, drugs are just different. Europe has not yet been hit with fentanyl, but it's starting to appear ( https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/16/fentanyl-kills-thousands-every-year-in-america-will-europe-be-next https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/16/fentanyl-kills-t... ). We'll see what happens.