Fentanyl Dangers

[Koolau]

Overdose deaths are 100k+ per year so something different is definitely going on.

The difference is Fentanyl. The difference between an effective dose and death is very small. Most drugs have a bigger safety margin between these two things.

The LD50 (lethal dose for 50% of the population) is on the order of 2mg. That's like the size of a few particles of table salt or sugar. The precision with which illicit Fentanyl is mixed is extremely poor. It's truly a crap shoot taking today's drugs which may be laced with Fentanyl.

 

[GenXguy]

The difference is Fentanyl. The difference between an effective dose and death is very small. Most drugs have a bigger safety margin between these two things.

The LD50 (lethal dose for 50% of the population) is on the order of 2mg. That's like the size of a few particles of table salt or sugar. The precision with which illicit Fentanyl is mixed is extremely poor. It's truly a crap shoot taking today's drugs which may be laced with Fentanyl.

And then to think Carfentanil is 100X as potent as Fentanyl!

This shows Fentanyl lethal dose:

 

[swakyaby]

Read today’s newspaper that a car driver who entered southern California from Mexico was pulled over because he was missing a front license plate. The driver appeared very nervous and eventually revealed he was carrying narcotics. The police found a trash bag hidden in the trunk carrying 85 pounds of counterfeit narcotic pills, about 390,000 pills. The pills were designed to look like prescription oxycodone, but are believed to contain fentanyl instead.

I know that people with chronic pain are sometimes desperate to obtain narcotics beyond what is prescribed, but these street drugs are incredibly dangerous.