Posted on 06/05/2006 8:10:06 PM PDT by KoRn
CHICAGO — U.S. agents, working in cooperation with the Mexican government, have closed down a lab in Mexico that might be the main source of a powerful painkiller that has killed at least 100 heroin users in eight states, the federal drug czar said Monday.
John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said it's still not clear whether the painkiller,fentanyl, was mixed with heroin at the lab in Mexico or after it entered the United States.
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They should open up more of those labs.
A bunch of dead heroin users is bad how?
I think that would be micrograms and yes it is 80x as potent as morphine and tough to handle. But it appears there is a recipe for cooking this in a kitchen so we can expect more of this.
Methamphetamine is to cocaine what fentanyl is to heroin.
The unintended consequences of the WOD are cruel.
So much for compassion. I suppose there are those who wish the same for you.
No.
Cocaine is to chewing coca leaves as fentanyl is to heroin.
Yes, that's right. I was thinking one thing and typing another lol.
No one put a gun to the dumb asses heads to make them use heroin. They are nothing but a burden on society. Good riddence.
maybe they don't care ... these are monsters and creeps poisoning human beings
I have to agree with you there. If drugs were sold legally by licensed and regulated manufacturers in licensed and regulated businesses the demand for 'home cooked' flavors of drugs would be greatly reduced. I know I'll be shot down and flamed for saying such a thing on here, but its the simple truth.
Does anyone know what kind of death this would cause? What I mean is, what symptoms would be exhibited in a person who had taken this? I ask because I know of someone who died under mysterious circumstances recently.
That's true. As long as they get their $$$$ they don't care. It doesn't matter if a child dies or if a family gets destroyed by their end product. Allot of they money they make on that stuff is blood on their hands. It reminds me of some of the 'creative' things bootleggers used to do with whiskey when they were making it.
"A bunch of dead heroin users is bad how?
So much for compassion. I suppose there are those who wish the same for you."
Is living with a Heroin addiction so much better then dying ?
Suffocation in one form or another. It's a bigtime respiratory depressant. The people taking the Fentanyl laced drugs would simply forget to breathe.
Too funny, really. They can't find drug traffickers, they can't stop the dope from crossing the border, they say they don't know where it's coming from, they don't know who is distributing it here, but hold the door! When that many "customers" drop dead they can cooperate with Mexico and find that lab lickety split and shut it down. Failure to close that lab quickly could hurt profits, you know. How interesting...
Wow, a painkiller that's 100% effective.
A quick one?
Now that you mention it, that IS pretty interesting. If the lab were involved in human smuggling rather than drugs it would still be going strong today.......
But the owners will get amnesty
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