Shared this with my kids today. Feels like a succinct overview of the dangers of taking anything that isn’t from a doctor. I know we’ve discussed before on CC but if you’re looking for something to show your kids, here ya go.
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In 2023, the DEA seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills, the most in a single year.
“It costs the cartels as little as 10 cents to produce a fentanyl-laced fake prescription pill that is sold in the United States for as much as $10 to $30 per pill,” Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Anne Milgram
Here’s the kicker–it doesn’t even cost 10 bucks a pill. We aren’t talking pills. Fentanyl is EXTREMELY cheap and now laced into a huge number of street drugs. It’ll be in your friendly marijuana smoke from the neighborhood. It’s cheap on every level. And you have NO way of knowing. It’s a death sentence waiting to happen.
We have had fentanyl overdoses in our area that have affected people (not just teens) of all walks of life. It’s absolutely awful.
I would like to point out, yet again, that mixed in marijuana does not burn at the heat that the leaves burn, so fentanyl poisoning from smoking pot is highly unlikely.
That being said, anything that is taken in pill form can contain fentanyl, and there is a very good chance that any cheap illegally sold opiates have fentanyl, and the people who add fentanyl don’t care much to make sure that the dose isn’t lethal. All cheap illegally sold psychoactive drugs in pill for can have it, bust since it’s an opioid, it is generally added to other opioids to increase their effects.
Wow. I learned something from this article. The author didn’t mention the numbers of people who merely end up in the hospital as opposed to dying. I am sure many people are made horribly sick by this drug. Scary.
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Fentanyl is also much more addictive than other opioids, so it’s longer term effects are also horrendous. So it make drugs like Oxycodone much more addictive. When it is added to drugs that are not opioids, like Ritalin, it starts adding opioid addiction on top of Ritalin (or any other drug) addiction.