#10159 - 06/05/06 07:11 PM
Heroin w/ Fentanyl?
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Wes Ogilvie
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I saw this on the Dallas Morning News's webpage. It might have some clinical repurcussions for us in the field...
U.S.: Bad heroin may have come from busted Mexican lab
03:07 PM CDT on Monday, June 5, 2006
Associated Press
CHICAGO - U.S. agents, working in cooperation with the Mexican government, have
closed down a lab in Mexico that might be the main source of a powerful
painkiller that has killed at least 100 heroin users in eight states, the
federal drug czar said Monday.
John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control
Policy, said it's still not clear whether the painkiller, fentanyl, was mixed
with heroin at the lab in Mexico or after it entered the United States.
"There may be more than one source," Walters said. "We think this is the
principal source."
Five people were arrested during the May bust, including one Walters described
as "the chemist." He referred specific questions to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency, which declined to provide details immediately.
Walters said that the dealers may have started using Fentanyl because they were
looking for a competitive advantage on the street, but that inept mixing -- or
cutting -- of the drug combination made it deadly.
He also warned that millions of deadly doses of the fentanyl-laced heroin might
still be on the streets. Fentanyl-laced cocaine had turned up in some cities, as well, he said.
Deaths caused by fentanyl-laced drugs have occurred in Illinois, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, Walters said.
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#10160 - 06/05/06 09:24 PM
Re: Heroin w/ Fentanyl?
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Jonathan Mudge
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Good post Wes.
This has been in the news for a bit. One article that I read reported that possibly there were 42 deaths in Detroit (Wayne County) that were being attributed to this combo.
Other drugs being sold on the street are possibly being laced with Fentanyl too. Some of these include Vicodin, Norcor, Oxycontin, and Oxycodone. Like all drugs sometimes the combo is intentional...sometimes not. "Street names" are changing too, but I would have to look that up.
It's being reported that much larger doses of Narcan are needed to reverse OD effects. Sometimes more than 10mg are needed....much more than what we are used to giving.
You never know what people will think of.....
MUDGE
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#10161 - 06/07/06 02:11 AM
Re: Heroin w/ Fentanyl?
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Darren Noak
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I also had seen this story. It made me think of the stolen drug bomb a while back and think to myself, "Man if people find out that we now have Fentanyl, we might need to keep better watch over our drug bombs!" Like you said Mudge...the things people will do!!
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