News: Fentanyl epidemic explodes in the world

MaRy

http://www.news3lv.com/content/news/...EbL2gaW5w.cspx

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Authorities in Chicago say a recent rise in heroin overdoses is continuing to climb.

Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says there were 74 non-fatal overdoses between Tuesday night and Friday night.

The Chicago Tribune reports that some patients turned up at Mount Sinai Hospital with needles still stuck in their arms.

City health and fire officials suspect heroin laced with the powerful painkiller fentanyl is to blame for the sudden jump, as it was in 2006.

http://melrose.wickedlocal.com/artic...NEWS/151009044

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To give you a sense of just how rapidly this drug has entered out communities, our state and local laboratories reported 942 fentanyl submissions for analysis in 2013. In 2014, that number more than tripled to 3,344 submissions. The human cost has been devastating as well. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports 1,250 heroin and opioid deaths in 2014, which represents a 57 percent increase in deaths since 2012. So far in 2015, we have lost 312 neighbors, family members, or children. Fentanyl as a heroin additive is responsible for many of these tragic deaths.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/calgary...isis-1.2587881

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Calgary police are warning that they're dealing with a public health crisis after two people died over the past two weeks and 14 others ended up in hospital as a result of using the street drug fentanyl.
Sharing some startling statistics at a meeting on Tuesday night, police said that, from January to June of this year, 45 people in Calgary died from fentanyl use, and they believe the rate of fentanyl-related deaths and overdoses is not slowing down.

"At first, I didn't like it; I'd get sick," he told CTV Calgary. "I kind of just did it because it was always around.
"Eventually, I got over the sickness of it, and that's when it started to become enjoyable."
He soon became hooked, taking between eight and 10 fentanyl pills a day.
"It turned from a ‘like’ into a ‘need.’ Once my body would start to withdraw off of it, I wouldn't be able to sleep," he said. "For me, it was everywhere … my closest friends were drug dealers."

Caesar

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Originally posted by macrocycle

Any heroin derivative is dangerous even codeine. I bet the high is glorious!

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TheSoneNavy

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Originally posted by macrocycle

Any heroin derivative is dangerous even codeine. I bet the high is glorious!

Omg

Starburst

The people have spoken: We want drugs!

Eternium

How awful do you have to be to even touch heroin in the first place?

ralani

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Originally posted by macrocycle

Think about it though, death is terrible but to die from an opioid overdose would be so peaceful and euphoric.

There are worse ways to die.

jagger88788

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Originally posted by macrocycle

Any heroin derivative is dangerous even codeine. I bet the high is glorious!

I see your point. I feel the same way

And to clarify I would never touch heroin in any form because it's an awful addictive drug but because the high is so good people can never stop wanting to feel that way. It's kinda really scary

MaRy

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Originally posted by macrocycle

Think about it though, death is terrible but to die from an opioid overdose would be so peaceful and euphoric.

There are worse ways to die.

delete it fat

opruh

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Originally posted by macrocycle

Think about it though, death is terrible but to die from an opioid overdose would be so peaceful and euphoric.

There are worse ways to die.