Fentanyl is real and what you hear is true!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

21. Who around here is saying that it's not 'real'?

So sorry about your son John. I lost a dear high school/college friend to Fentanyl just last year. His son had JUST started college. Sucks!

Fentanyl is a dangerous, shitty opioid for many reasons, esp. in the illicit trade.

That's because:
1) The high lasts a very short time, leading to a lot of re-dosing.
2) Even while it's working, it has a substandard high compared to real dope like oxycodone, dilaudid, and heroin.
3) Its ratio of 'high' to 'respiratory depression' is terribly low. IOW, it suppresses breathing a LOT ... while not really making the user feel the high they're after.
4) it's so concentrated that it requires lab-grade equipment to measure properly, which the people who produce it ... often don't have/use. This means in essence, you don't really know what you're getting, strength-wise when you buy fentanyl-laced products, and there's a very small margin of error.

This being said, if users could go to the corner drug store and buy proper dope like oxy and dilaudid of known purity and strength ... the overdose RATE at least would go down, and fentanyl would quickly be entirely out of favor. We'd also stop funding the cartels producing it and reduce violence in a number of other countries they make (and use) it in.