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In reply to the discussion: Fentanyl is real and what you hear is true! [View all]Warpy
(114,590 posts)because the doses are so tiny and so fiddly. I hated it even worse when I got it after my hip snapped. It is not a pleasant feeling.
Scumbags are cutting their heroin with it because it's cheaper than heroin. Throw in some fentanyl and five times as much mannitol and nobody will ever know, right? Except they can't mix it well enough to ensure a predictable dose. That's why people are dying.
Most street fentanyl is diverted from China. China has made some halfhearted attempts to stop the flow, but that's all. The shit usually goes to the gangs in Mexico, is packaged there, and sold here. Since China's real estate economy is teetering on the brink, don't expect a great moneymaker like fentanyl to be shut down.
I would love to see Narcan made over the counter, right out on the shelf, no questions asked, no paper trail created. It might have saved your son and the hundreds of other people who die from that garbage every year.
And to hell with those who think shaming or prison will get people off drugs. They don't.