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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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

And I can't imagine they are looking real hard.
Seems like a good way to dry up that particlular consumer group.

Cold, I know...but hey...I don't care.

[Riverman94610]

I have a low opinion of junkies also but DEATH?I don't think the fate equals the crime.
Now child molesters.THATS another story.Truly a good thing if they would all fall out in a huge heap somewhere.

[Know your rights]

If someone thinks drugs are heaven on earth, that is just an extreme approval of the drugs (as an example). How do you figure that if someone uses other phrases to utter the same approval that it isn't the same?

Very simple: Not all approval is extreme approval. Did you really not know that?

[A CA Guy]

OK, being we know your established expertise on the pro drug side,
what is the exact difference between **approval** by the pro recreational drug crowd and **extreme approval** by the pro recreational drug crowd?

[Know your rights]

Very simple: "approval" includes mild-to-moderate approval, whereas "extreme approval" does not.

[A CA Guy]

So is a mild to moderate pro recreational drug person in your opinion ones who want the illegal drugs available legally as well?

[Know your rights]

So is a mild to moderate pro recreational drug person

I know of no pro-drug people on FR. I know only pro-freedom people who don't see legalization as "heaven on earth" but do approve of it, because it would end the enriching of criminals and give drug sellers new economic incentive to not sell to minors.

[drew]

My reaction is "thin the herd."

[A CA Guy]

Your version of pro freedom based on your average of 490 posts out of 500 being on drug threads could suggest that drugs = freedom in your eyes.

Do you consider drugs freedom?

[mkjessup]

Your version of pro freedom based on your average of 490 posts out of 500 being on drug threads could suggest that drugs = freedom in your eyes. Do you consider drugs freedom?

Give him at least a week to respond, my past experience with that poster suggests that he occasionally loses track of time.

490 out of 500 you say?

Well it could always be coincidence. ;)

[rawcatslyentist]

>"I know only pro-freedom people who don't see legalization as "heaven on earth" but do approve of it, because it would end the enriching of criminals and give drug sellers new economic incentive to not sell to minors."

Eloquently stated!

I say, pile it as high as an elephants eye! The junkies will drop just like flys!

End of problem!

Sad? Yes! Effective? Yes!

Current solutions to this problem.

Sad? Yes! Effective? No!

[robertpaulsen]

"and give drug sellers new economic incentive to not sell to minors."

In theory.

In practice it don't work that way. Teens use hard-to get regulated alcohol 2:1 over illegal, unregulated, and easy-to-get marijuana.

[robertpaulsen]

"who don't see legalization as "heaven on earth" but do approve of it, because it would end the enriching of criminals"

Well, legalization simply changes the name from "drug dealer" to "businessman", doesn't it? Enriching Joe Blow the drug dealer, bad. Enriching Joe Blow the businessman, good. Is that what you're saying?

And we, as a society, are better off how because of that name change?

[Know your rights]

Do you consider drugs freedom?

No, I consider true freedom to include the freedom to make bad choices (so long as they don't violate anyone's rights, which drug sale and use do not).

[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.)

[Know your rights]

Teens use hard-to get regulated alcohol 2:1 over illegal, unregulated, and easy-to-get marijuana.

And your evidence that they don't simply like the effects of alcohol twice as much as they like the effects of marijuana is ... ?

[Know your rights]

legalization simply changes the name from "drug dealer" to "businessman", doesn't it?

No, it also increases his competition and thus lowers his profit margin. Did you really not know that?

[A CA Guy]

Do you consider drugs freedom?

No, I consider true freedom to include the freedom to make bad choices (so long as they don't violate anyone's rights, which drug sale and use do not).

So how come the only bad choice you talk about in most all of your posts are recreational drugs? Seems like a drug only agenda to me.

When do we get to hear about the other gazillion bad choices you supposedly care about, like maybe starting a campfire next to your car as you begin to fill up with gas?

[Kozak]

Fentanyl is a synthetic narcotic that is very potent ( dose is measured in micrograms where morthine is in milligrams), and also very short acting. this makes it a GREAT drug to use for anesthesia or painful procedures. You can give the patient a reversal agent like Narcan and be sure the narcan will last longer then the fentanyl making it safer to use.

There's also sufentanil which is 100 times as potent as fentanyl.....

[Know your rights]

When do we get to hear about the other gazillion bad choices you supposedly care about, like maybe starting a campfire next to your car as you begin to fill up with gas?

Is that illegal? Does anyone who claims to be a conservative want it to be illegal (assuming it's done out of range of the property of others)?