FENTANYL DEATHS

[rcurtner]

I lost a daughter due to a heart condition. She was 25 years old and should have had many more years to live. Think I can speak for everyone that loosing a child is truly heart breaking. Our country looses close to a hundred thousand people a year from Fentanyl. Correct me if I'm wrong but it appears most people are obtaining Fentanyl laced pills thinking they are regularly prescribed drugs. If not prescribed by a physician it is illegal. Hardly a day goes by without a news report of another Fentanyl death. The internet, drug dealers, friends and many other methods are used. How is it with all attention we see on TV people are still illegally purchasing medications that good be Fentanyl laced?

 

[HansGruber]

I lost a daughter due to a heart condition. She was 25 years old and should have had many more years to live. Think I can speak for everyone that loosing a child is truly heart breaking. Our country looses close to a hundred thousand people a year from Fentanyl. Correct me if I'm wrong but it appears most people are obtaining Fentanyl laced pills thinking they are regularly prescribed drugs. If not prescribed by a physician it is illegal. Hardly a day goes by without a news report of another Fentanyl death. The internet, drug dealers, friends and many other methods are used. How is it with all attention we see on TV people are still illegally purchasing medications that good be Fentanyl laced?

No, they aren’t “regularly prescribed” drugs doing the killing—they’re street drugs.

Nobody’s been killed by Fentanyl in a drug they got from their pharmacist.

 

[Sld1959]

It's sad so many are lost. My wifes sister's suicide almost destroyed my inlaws. There are numerous ways it is misused, in pill form street level lookalikes is just one of them.

https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl#:~:text=Fentanyl%20is%20being%20mixed%20in,look%20like%20legitimate%20prescription%20opioids.

A lot of overdoses are also from The mixing with other drugs making them much stronger than the user is used to.

 

[HansGruber]

The sad thing is, the people who actually caused this situation—pharmaceutical companies—aren’t being held to account.

The Sacklers got off with no prison time served, and no money out of their pockets.

 

[rcurtner]

No, they aren’t “regularly prescribed” drugs doing the killing—they’re street drugs.

Nobody’s been killed by Fentanyl in a drug they got from their pharmacist.

Hans what I said is when folks get these Fentanyl laced drugs they probably think they are the same drug as prescribed by a pharmacist. I did not say people were being killed by drugs that were legally prescribed.

 

[HayesGreener]

My understanding is that most illegal fentanyl is manufactured in China then smuggled in through the border from Mexico

 

[rcurtner]

My understanding is that most illegal fentanyl is manufactured in China then smuggled in through the border from Mexico

From all I've heard you are correct. I'm inclined to think China has a plan for us and Fentanyl along with all the other crap they're doing to create chaos in America.

 

[HayesGreener]

When I was a young LEO marijuana and Heroin were coming across the southern border. Then cocaine was coming across the southern border. Then it was methamphetamine coning across the southern border. Now it is fentanyl coming across the southern border. And all of the above. I believe I am seeing a pattern here.....

 

[rcurtner]

When I was a young LEO marijuana and Heroin were coming across the southern border. Then cocaine was coming across the southern border. Then it was methamphetamine coning across the southern border. Now it is fentanyl coming across the southern border. And all of the above. I believe I am seeing a pattern here.....

Yeah China couldn't get as much into America without Mexico. I want to think Mexico is not complicit but the cartels pretty much run their country. They are very powerful use fear and pay off politicians to get free reign. Our current president and his puppeteers can't or won't challenge Mexico. President Trump did and I think he would again.