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.
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So you're admitting that the benefits of a regulatory scheme are rendered moot if the product is popular?
So instead of enriching a few criminals a lot we enrich many businessman a little. I'll ask again. And we, as a society, are better off how because of that?
Moderately enriched legal businessmen don't use their profits to hire muscle and buy guns for innocent-bystander-killing shootouts with rivals. Did you really not know that?
fetanyl is a extremely strong painkiller usually reserved for end stage cancer patients or those in burn icu's. If patches kennedy (fitting) was on fentanyl I would love to hear his M.D.'s reasoning.
It would be a painless death at least. They would just fall asleep and forget to breathe
According to you, making a product legal and regulated keeps it out of the hands of teens. You never added the caveat that this is negated if the teens really like the product.
99% of the time they kill only each other. Nobody's perfect.
That's it? We're to legalize all drugs nationwide because a few innocents in some major cities are accidentally killed? And how many will die because of legalization? How many additional accidents while on drugs, overdoses, spread of AIDS and other diseases, suicides ...?
Let's have some perspective here.
It's apparently also used before colonoscopies. Hmmm, Patches Kennedy...bunghole...kinda go together. 'cept you really don't need the Patches
Of course not ... that's just the worst of it. When criminals collect drug-war-inflated profits, all manner of criminality is financed. Then there's the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices.
I did a "ride along" with one of our local police officers. We were called to the scene of a DUI evaluation in progress. The woman failed the field sobriety test and had been taken into custody. We had to move her car off the street. In the process of moving the car we discovered an open 1 gallon jug of Gallo vin rose and a partially consumed cup of that wine in the cup holder. The windshield was broken. Bumpers front and back on the car were smashed. The airbag in the steering wheel and passengers side had deployed previously and were "taped" in place with duct tape. The car was full of trash from floor to the edge of the windows.
Having painted the picture of what we encountered, I can now tell you she was employed as a nurse in the local emergency room. The car was her home. She was way over the limit on the breathalyzer.
Think about that next time you are sitting in an emergency room waiting for treatment. You have no idea what kind of people may be employed there.
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?
"Then there's the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices."
And that won't go away unless you're proposing using my tax dollars to give away free drugs. Have you any data showing a correlation between crimes like burglary, robbery, and prostitution and the price of drugs to support your statement?
I thought countries like Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark had to resort to free drugs to stop the crime.
Terrorism makes sense. A form of making money for weaponry, etc. while at the same time killing the many heroin "satans" as they see them. Sickening how they cannot see themselves as evil.
Yeah but the paraquat pot wasnt dangerous... apparently burning made the paraquat harmless.
? The ME is largely desert. Afghanistan, Pakistan, yes. Middle East, no. Most Heroin comes from the golden triangle.. Burma, Thailand, etc.
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I always thought of Afghanistan and Pakistan as part of the middle east.
Still, my point was that, if heroin is an opiate (I don't know if it is) and since Afghanistan has a large poppy economy, it would be "easy" (depending on where the drug manufacturing was done) to lace the drugs coming from Afghanistan with harmful substances in order to "terrorize" adicts.
From my perspective, that doesn't seem too effective. However, for someone in Afghanistan with a skewed worldview, they might see that as an effective tactic against the West.
Admittedly, lots of supposition on my part. That's why I threw it out for comment.
And this is bad because?
Wow,an ER nurse living in her car,swilling down rot gut wine by the gallon.
It scares me the people that work in these fast-food eateries.There was a man arrested here yesterday that works at Taco Bell that assaulted a guy that asked him to turn down his car radio playing profanity laced hip-hop "music" in the TB parking lot.
We also had a 5 ft 200lb woman that held up a CVS for morphene two days ago,she got away.
This is a small town too.16,000
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