So, it is a drug willingly ingested by druggies?
The media is trying to make it sound like it is being forced on people.
Exactly.
I’m only concerned that maybe it is deliberately being disguised to poison generally unsuspecting people.
Otherwise, it’s another druggie problem.
Fake prescription pills are being manufactured in clandestine factories across the country and distributed by drug dealers using traditional methods and across the internet. A lot of people who are addicted to pain killers - both legitimate and illegitimate users - are buying the drugs when their legal prescription runs out early.
A coworkers daughter had endometriosis real bad. A disease I would not wish upon anybody. She was prescribed transdermal pain medication patches. Over time she began opening the patches and desolving the medication within the patch and injecting it. Not long after that, she started injecting more than had been prescribed for a single day. At the end of the month she had to find a substitute.
The strongest stuff available was not managing her pain. CPS had to get involved and took my coworkers grand daughter away and awarded custody to my coworker after years of legal battles and foster care. It got really ugly.
She would call my coworker and make up any excuse to quote borrow money unquote. She had been placed in one rehab after another with no results. Soon she was buying Oxycotin off the streets. The last month I worked there my coworker received a phone call. I could hear him crying in the cube next to me.
His daughter bought some fake Oxycotin laced with too much Fentynal and died. It was the saddest thing I ever heard. I walked around the cube and told him I was sorry. There was nothing else I could do. He retired within days.
He continued working for years in a vain attempt to keep his daughter alive. Her addiction was fatal; Here desease incurable and painful. When she died he immediatly retired.
Other dealers across the country are making fake ADHD, ADD, and other psych meds and distributing them to college kids who end up abusing them from years of use often beginning in elementary or middle school. The counterfeit pills are indistinguishable from the real thing.
Parents across the country are getting calls that their child died from a fake Adderall that their kid bought from a “friend” to “study” and never woke up.
It’s bad. Real bad. It’s not just junkies dying.
There has been incidents of counterfeit drugs laced with Fentyinal making it into legit pharmacies from the cartels and unsuspecting customers dying.
The potential for more frightening large-scale disaster scenarios is real.
Someone needs to come up with a test strip that checks for and indicates the presence of Fentanyl before this gets serious.