Fentanyl-laced Heroin Found in Ohio

Columbus Ohio Dispatch ^ | June 16, 2006

[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.

[Screamname]

It`s used as a patch? Can this be the reason for the "Patches" Kennedy nickname? How many patches does Patches wear anyway for them to call him "Patches"?

[stumpy]

There was a guy in South Central L.A. we called "racoon". A black guy cooking P.C.P. who blew himself up. He went to a war surplus store and bought himself some old WW II pilots goggles and blew himself up again. This time he burned the pigment out of his face (except where the goggles protected his eyes), and he really did look like a racoon.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

I am SO going to Hell for laughing at that image!

[stumpy]

The worst part of it was preparing a "photo" lineup with him. HOw in the world could we find others to put in the list?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Nowadays, you could Photoshop it.

[A CA Guy]

I am not stupid enough to inject anything into my body, nor would I use some dangerous recreational drug for fun.

Seems this must be stupid people finding just one more way of killing themselves. Dad stuff.

[A CA Guy]

Dad stuff = sad stuff. (Fingers slipped once again) LOL

[CFC__VRWC]

Patches blamed Phenergan, a powerful anti-nausea drug, for his crash.

[kcvl]

At the end of a two-day conference on the painkiller fentanyl, police and federal drug investigators said they are better informed about the growing crisis and are aggressively working to cut off the Mexican supply of the drug, which has tainted the U.S. heroin market and killed hundreds of people.

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The 22-year-old construction worker and addict was another victim in an apparent surge in U.S. overdoses blamed on abuse of the fentanyl patch, a prescription-only product that is intended for cancer patients and others with chronic pain and is designed to dispense the medicine slowly through the skin.

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[SoothingDave]

It is sad. The paper here ran a story a few weeks back about a girl who went from A student to dead in the space of a few years. Heroin is nothing to mess with.

When the overdose deaths started happening around here a week ago, some people were flocking to the city looking for the killer stuff.

SD

[A CA Guy]

Drugs are nothing to ever get into.

I think the facts kids can get themselves killed indicates the parents are so disconnected from their kids that they don't eat together often.

How could a parent not eat at least once daily with their kid and not see a change?

[upchuck]

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

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

This is a problem?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Fentanyl is all the things that people said it was on this thread (pain killer, used as patch etc.) but its primary role in life is as a synthetic narcotic used in anethesia. Certain forms of anesthesia require high does narcotics which typically get combined with other pharmacology to concoct an anesthetic "cocktail". Fentanyl was a "designer" narcotic built to meet this specific need. It is something like 5x (or 10x I forget which) more potent than morphine and presumably also more potent than heroin. Sounds like people that got hold of some of this drug are now sleeping "The Big Sleep". Guess there's yet another reason not to be an iv drug abuser.

[corkoman]

Heroin addicts are dying by the bushel. If there is a downside to this, I haven't seen it yet.

Charming - I imagine there must be others who feel the same about you.

[Bean Counter]

I really don't see the problem here.

Are localities being overstressed brom the expense of burying dead junkies all of a sudden??

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing wider distribution of adulterated heroin, nation wide. Seems to me to be a self-curing problem, in that you'll either get good and scared and seek treatment, or you'll die.

Either way, it's a net sum gain...

[KoRn]

Whoever thought mixing fentanyl with heroin knows nothing of drugs. That stuff is so strong it's measured in micrograms, rather than milligrams like most other medicines. Those idiots were probably mixing it like they would any other additive, or the users, who didn't know what they had, just used too much.

[mkjessup]

Heroin addicts are dying by the bushel. If there is a downside to this, I haven't seen it yet.

Charming - I imagine there must be others who feel the same about you.

Doubtful, as I am not a heroin addict, or any other type of societal parasite.

Have a nice weekend.

[tapatio]

Fentanyl-laced heroin is responsible for four deaths in Wilmington,N.C. also.http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS/606160404/1004/FRONTPAGE

[Mannaggia l'America]

Fentanyl-laced heroin is responsible for four deaths in Wilmington,N.C.

It has also occurred near Philadelphia.