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Fentanyl-laced Heroin Found in Ohio
Columbus Ohio Dispatch ^ | June 16, 2006

Posted on 06/16/2006 1:24:23 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel

Fentanyl-laced heroin found in Ohio Mansfield, Columbus labs identify fatal combo Friday, June 16, 2006 Margaret Harding THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

MANSFIELD, Ohio — The deadly mix of drugs that has killed addicts in Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia has reached Ohio.

Mansfield police have identified the powerful prescription painkiller fentanyl in six of the last 10 batches of heroin confiscated by police.

Mansfield police laboratory director Anthony Tambasco said he decided to start looking for fentanyl after hearing about the deaths in Detroit just before Memorial Day. Authorities there have confirmed 100 fentanyl/heroin deaths. Another 60 were confirmed in the Chicago area.

"It’s not something you normally look for," Tambasco said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


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To: CertainInalienableRights

Hey...

Yes, Heroin is indeed an opiate. Afghanistan used at least to have a large poppy economy. I dont know if its still the case.

I guess its possible that peole want to terrorise addicts, but it seems to me that this is all driven by DEMAND for fentanyl laced heroin. Apparently it gives a better high.


101 posted on 06/28/2006 7:49:52 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: 31M20RedDevil
This is a small town too.16,000

My town is 9,700 people. We are right next to Pocatello at 51,000. The entire county numbers about 70,000 people spread over 1113 square miles. I moved from San Diego where the county was 4200 square miles with 2,813,833 people (2000). A big difference in population density and crime levels.

I just happened upon a very nice summary page of my city here

102 posted on 06/28/2006 9:30:53 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: robertpaulsen
Teens use hard-to get regulated alcohol 2:1 over illegal, unregulated, and easy-to-get marijuana.

You don't get fired or not hired for having alcohol in your piss test.

103 posted on 06/28/2006 9:41:45 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: robertpaulsen
I seem to recall that your cavalier response to that has been, "If they commit a crime because of drugs, then arrest them for that crime". Did I get that right?

Or does that only apply to users?

The proper response to the crimes of some alcohol users is to arrest them for those crimes, not to criminalize all alcohol sale and use; the proper response to alcohol criminalization's putting inflated profits in criminal hands was to end alcohol criminalization, not step it up. Do you disagree?

And that [the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices] won't go away unless you're proposing using my tax dollars to give away free drugs.

Straw man. It will be lessened by legalization and the resulting price drop.

Have you any data showing a correlation between crimes like burglary, robbery, and prostitution and the price of drugs to support your statement?

It's basic economics.

I thought countries like Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark had to resort to free drugs to stop the crime.

Sounds like nonsense to me ... Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark stopped crime?

104 posted on 06/30/2006 3:48:14 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights
Give him at least a week to respond, my past experience with that poster suggests that he occasionally loses track of time.

No, your past experience shows that, as I told you, I put job and family before FR. So why are you lying about me? (And without even the minimal backbone to ping me.)


OK, so it was six days. Close enough.

I'll check back with you next Tuesday.
105 posted on 06/30/2006 6:58:57 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: Know your rights
"... the proper response to alcohol criminalization's putting inflated profits in criminal hands was to end alcohol criminalization, not step it up. Do you disagree?"

Only in the sense that criminals substituted the sale of illegal recreational drugs for the sale of illegal alcohol -- legalizing drugs does no more than squeeze the balloon in one part just to have it pop up in another.

Your concern in keeping the inflated profits out of criminal hands is that "all manner of criminality is financed". OK. Then let's apply your solution: As with drug users who commit crimes associated with drug use, we should arrest drug criminals when they use these inflated profits to finance criminality.

Now we're addressing the real problem, yes?

106 posted on 07/01/2006 4:58:05 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Know your rights
"It will be lessened by legalization and the resulting price drop. It's basic economics."

Basic economics says that when the price drops, people buy more. Seems to me that the drug addict would keep right on stealing -- unless you can provide proof that crimes like burglary, robbery, and prostitution drop when the price of drugs drop. Which you refuse to do.

107 posted on 07/01/2006 5:03:39 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: A CA Guy
Is this where all the Libertarians post that if we allowed this to all be legal there would be heaven on earth?

Hey, Gal! No, this is where you fascists make your futile attempts to hijack the thread.

Libertarians would be no less OR MORE sorrowful to see them OD! Anybody that uses heroin should get their proper rewards. It is a matter of time before they destroy themselves. I say give them more, and speed up their escape!

108 posted on 07/01/2006 5:09:00 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: Know your rights
"Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark stopped crime?"

They had to resort to free drugs to stop enough of the crime in order to call the program a success.

The point being, we'd have to do the same. Admit it. Tell everyone on this board that your solution to the drug problem is to provide taxpayer-financed recreational drugs to those who can't afford them -- those who would otherwise resort to burglary, robbery, and prostitution to finance their drug habit.

109 posted on 07/01/2006 5:10:37 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: pageonetoo
"Anybody that uses heroin should get their proper rewards."

The problem is, drug users are totally unaware of your plan. You see, thet're pushing for the legalization of drugs thinking that we, as society, will continue to take care of them if they get sick, or need food, or need shelter.

Before we venture down this path, maybe we should stop helping existing users. Then they'll get the message. Then, if and when we legalize drugs, at least people will know that if they use they're on their own. Sound like a plan?

110 posted on 07/01/2006 5:23:08 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Stupid drug dealers! Killing off their customer base.


111 posted on 07/01/2006 5:27:40 AM PDT by reg45
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To: robertpaulsen
Before we venture down this path, maybe we should stop helping existing users....

Were you referring to the druggies, or the politicians?

112 posted on 07/01/2006 6:25:18 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: pageonetoo

We've had Libertarians being accepting of Heroin use saying dumb things like it is their choice before, so I get the impression you are wrong because approval or acceptance is at least passive complicity in the illegality that often leads someone to OD.


113 posted on 07/01/2006 12:57:08 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
We've had Libertarians being accepting of Heroin use saying dumb things like it is their choice before, so I get the impression you are wrong because approval or acceptance is at least passive complicity in the illegality that often leads someone to OD.


114 posted on 07/01/2006 1:25:05 PM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
What I can't understand is why would dealers be killing off their customers?

It is because the Fentanyl/heroin combination is new and the people who produce and use it haven't yet found the proper non-lethal dosage. This is a bit of a Dawinian trial and error going on until the proper mix is found.

115 posted on 07/01/2006 1:45:15 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: mkjessup
So you're lying about me because you're a spineless coward? Got it.
116 posted on 07/02/2006 3:23:50 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: robertpaulsen
Only in the sense that criminals substituted the sale of illegal recreational drugs for the sale of illegal alcohol -- legalizing drugs does no more than squeeze the balloon in one part just to have it pop up in another.

So you have evidence that the end of Prohibition marked a sharp increase in sales of other illegal drugs? Or are you just blowing smoke?

Your concern in keeping the inflated profits out of criminal hands is that "all manner of criminality is financed". OK. Then let's apply your solution: As with drug users who commit crimes associated with drug use, we should arrest drug criminals when they use these inflated profits to finance criminality.

We should, and do ... yet the problem persists. Now we need to take the next step and stop inflating drug profits as we do by criminalizing drugs.

117 posted on 07/02/2006 3:28:03 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: P-40
I wonder if there will be a recall? :)

Just wait 'til OSHA gets a hold of the manufacturer!

118 posted on 07/02/2006 3:29:36 PM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: robertpaulsen
Basic economics says that when the price drops, people buy more. Seems to me that the drug addict would keep right on stealing

The price could easily drop tenfold ... but no user could survive a tenfold increase in intake. Combine that with the fact that even drug addicts can get a certain amount of money through nonviolent means like can-collecting and panhandling (as many alcohol addicts do), and the conclusion is inescapable that crime would drop.

119 posted on 07/02/2006 3:31:27 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: robertpaulsen
They had to resort to free drugs to stop enough of the crime in order to call the program a success.

I'll believe this latest version of your claim if and when you supply evidence.

your solution to the drug problem is to provide taxpayer-financed recreational drugs to those who can't afford them

Incorrect as usual.

120 posted on 07/02/2006 3:33:36 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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