Posted on 07/15/2017 9:17:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
The problem is worse, much much worse, than he makes it sound.
Heroin was the problem, but people could use it for decades and still survive. The problem today is Fentanyl and its analogs. They are *factors* stronger than heroin, and can kill in some cases with just micrograms.
An Equianalgesic table shows the relative strength of pain relieving drugs. Its baseline, rated at “1”, is pure morphine. So drugs are either rated as fractions of 1, or multiples of 1. This is a very useful link to have as a reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianalgesic
Fentanyl, the strongest opioid legal in the US, and then only in patch form, is 50-100 times stronger than *pure morphine*. Its equivalent dose to pure morphine is just
100 µg (100 micrograms), a thousandth of a milligram.
One of Fentanyl’s analogs, chemically similar to it, is Carfentanil. It is 10,000-100,000 times stronger than *pure morphine*.
Pure heroin is just 4-5 times stronger than pure morphine.
Until recently, when China finally outlawed it, there were thousands of clandestine labs producing very inexpensive Fentanyl and its analogs. And entire *kilogram* of Carfentanil cost around $1,250 (US).
One smuggler was arrested in Canada with a kilogram of it, and another in Florida with 4 kilograms of it.
The RCMP says that about 20µg, twenty micrograms, is about enough to overdose a person.
This means that there is enough Carfentanil in a kilogram to overdose 50,000,000 people. Enough to kill every person in:
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, and
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Which means that Carfentanil is a nuclear weapons class weapon of mass destruction, in the megatons range.
don’t we wish
The surest and quickest cure for this “epidemic” is for society to COMPLETELY abandon these addicts.
Do not enable even their next cup of coffee.
99.999% of all pot smokers never go on to heroin.
Why are you trying to establish a link between the two?
My doctor prescribed Fentanyl patches for me because my insurance company unilaterally decided to quit covering my safer Butrans patches. He said it has been common for many insurance carriers to remove the safer pain killers from their formulary, including Medicare.
There is plenty of blame to go around for our current opioid epidemic.
Interesting chart. Looks like some of that stuff should never have been invented.
Just.. WOW!
Makes Ricin look like breakfast topping.
To the author: You CHOSE to become an addict by sticking that first needle into your arm or some other body part. Good for you, having kicked the addiction, but absolutely zero sympathy for those who can’t or won’t kick.
To GrandJediMasterYoda: Had those additional 40,000 not ODd, would our country be any better off? They’d just be breaking other laws, using other substances. By CHOICE.
Source, please?
Or how about rewording it "99.999% of all pot smokers never go on to other drugs and see if it fits?
Lets make this accurate for you. 99.99% of all addicts have used pot.
The vast majority of all teenage opiate ODs began their fall into the drug culture with pot.
Now that we have established that pot is a major gateway drug, we can return to your drug culture enabling defenses. Your grandparents would be so proud of you.
And we’re in the sandbox to protect it!
Look, you dimwit asshole...
100% of addicts have drank mothers milk and 100% have had a beer before they became addicts.
And neither Mother’s Milk or Budweiser have ever been cited as a cause of addiction.
Except by idiots that think there’s a “gateway” substance to corrupt, childish behavior.
There are 669,000 people in the US who used heroin in the last year:
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/scope-heroin-use-in-united-states
That’s .2%
52% of Americans have tried pot:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-poll-finds-majority-americans-have-smoked-pot-n747476
That’s over 150,000,000.
Looks like it’s only 99.5% who try pot do not go on to become heroin addicts.
There are syringes that hold 150 ml, but nobody uses them top shoot heroin.
To place into perspective, a shot of “Novocain” at the dentist is 1.8cc (or ml).
yup, if a reporter can’t get the little stuff right i don’t expect the big stuff to be any better
Hasn't happened in the Netherlands and Portugal, where the death rate from drugs is less than one-tenth the rate of the US =>
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/drug-use/by-country/
That’s the ticket!! Addicted pregnant and then breastfeeding mothers passing drugs on through blood and milk to the developing brains of babies. Great idea! What possibly could go wrong!! It’s just so cool to be a dope smoking mommy.
Face it, your need to get high is an addiction. You need to get high because living naturally is just too hard for you. You are weak. You seek to normalize the drug culture because it owns you.
But if they stay here the will OD, get Narcan, get mad because you stole their high, and if hospitalized, immediately shoot up upon release.
I'll pass on your suggestion to our local EMTs to hand out the travel brochures on their repeat scenes.
Thanks for sharing something so useful. Have you thought of volunteering for Hillary?
You’re an idiot that doesn’t know I don’t use drugs.
Not even the prescription variety.
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