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In reply to the discussion: Fentanyl is real and what you hear is true! [View all]bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)hit the streets. Purdue Pharmacy made a pill with 160 mgs of oxycodone. The usual oxycodone pill was a 5mg tab of Percocet. OxyContin was unlike anything we had seen. Many,many people died from that. A family member almost died from the abuse of OxyContin and his escape from it was due to resources and a caring family. None that would have mattered if he kept using though.
Now fentanyl has made the user grade. It is an incredibly deadly drug.
Yet I believe it must be a public health issue first with some components of law enforcement. We will never stop powder coming across the border any better than Reagan and Bush stopped powdered cocaine or Clinton and Shrub stopped powdered heroin. Powder is the easiest thing to get through the massive amount of shipping that goes through our borders in this Country. Fentanyl has to stop with users and public health warnings because the powder is going to get through no matter what.
Politics is always involved in drug issues because it involves the expenditure of public funds.