Posted on 10/18/2022 5:53:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Both more powerful and more dangerous than heroin, fentanyl is becoming more cmmonplace throughout the U.S.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has sent out an advisory to the public regarding the opioid crisis, specifically warning of the presence of brightly-colored fentanyl pills in general circulation. The presence of highly addictive “rainbow fentanyl” is a trend which potentially targets young people.
I’ve known of fentanyl my entire medical career. My professional experience with it involved use during general anesthesia on patients undergoing surgery and epidurals during labor. It has also been used in combat casualties and cancer patients in the form of “lollipops” for pain relief and sedation.
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FENTANYL DANGERS
Unfortunately, there are serious risks associated with the use of fentanyl. You can expect sedation, confusion, drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, urinary retention, pupillary constriction, and respiratory depression. This highly addictive substance leads to serious physical dependence in addition to tolerance (the need for higher doses over time to get the same “high”).
Additional dangers relate to the tendency for fentanyl powder to be mixed in with heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. As it can’t be identified by sight, taste, or smell, it would require a lab analysis or special test strips to identify. This practice of “cutting” drugs with fentanyl causes the user to inadvertently be given a dose much stronger than ordinarily expected from, say, heroin. Indeed, accidental exposure of fentanyl to skin can be lethal in doses as low as 0.25 milligrams.
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I wonder how small the percentage is for smugglers getting caught vs. those who get through.
It’s time for the US to put Mexico on notice, and start killing these Narco-terrorists. More BP Agents, and multi-state call up of National Guard troops.
Quit f’ing around in Europe. Let those Socialists deal with their problems.
I think the first thing people who talk about Fentanyl is to learn how to pronounce it. It’s not Fenta-nol. It’s Fenta-nil. Every time I hear it I just hear Nukular.............
That’s what I was going to say. It’s not fentenall.
Few are taught phonics these days. If people were taught phonics, they would know it’s “nil”, just as they would know “nuclear” is pronounced new-klee-er. Nukular is so messed up.
I was recently in the hospital for surgery. In looking at the bill I notice where they dosed me several times with Fentanyl. They never said anything about it and I don’t remember any injections or pills or the like. It must have been in the IVs.
Strange, IMO.
1000+ 🤣
We are just in a holding pattern until the Carfentanil epidemic hits.
We can thank Jimmy Carter for Nukular.....imagine a former nuclear submarine officer still saying it that way. Admiral Rickover is probably turning over in his grave.
Jimmah wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Wasn’t it LBJ who also pronounced it that way?
That said, Biden isn't worthy to shine Jimmah's shoes.
LBJ might have, but I remember him for other more egregious things. Regardless, Jimmuh was famous for it as I recall.
Bush Jr pronounced it: new-clay-yer LOL
Were you under anesthesia? Fentanyl is used with propofol to block pain from the latter.
True that it has advantages in medicine, however I respectfully disagree that fentanyl doesn't cause shortness of breath. At least, according to the great fentanyl tester himself, St. George Fentanyl Floyd.
Yeah, I got knocked out for the surgery. The bill doesn’t explain why it was used. But I don’t recall having any after-anesthesia bad effects I could tell.
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