What about legalizing all drugs?
Then we would / could have a lot more of this.
How about Meth? Is that OK?
Same results only much slower.
Wondering why he was using something that is reserved for only the most serious of cases. If he was that bad off he should have been hospitalized.
I'm all for legalizing drugs, but when you need to be a certified pharmacologist with a microgram scale to properly dose yourself.....what could possibly go wrong? Even extensive education, which I generally believe is the answer, isn't going to help.
I can pretty safely say that fentanyl shouldn't be on the streets and not feel too hypocritical about it.
Most serious cases? My wife was given Fentanyl both times she was in labor.Fentanyl (also known as fentanil, brand names Sublimaze,[6] Actiq, Durogesic, Duragesic, Fentora, Matrifen, Haldid, Onsolis,[7] Instanyl,[8] Abstral,[9] Lazanda[10] and others[11]) is a potent, synthetic opioid analgesic with a rapid onset and short duration of action.[12] It is a strong agonist at the μ-opioid receptors. Fentanyl is approximately 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine and roughly 40 to 50 times more potent than pharmaceutical grade (100% pure) heroin.[13][14]
Wondering why he was using something that is reserved for only the most serious of cases. If he was that bad off he should have been hospitalized.
Overdoses and fatalities
In July 2014, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued a warning about the potential for life-threatening harm from accidental exposure to transdermal fentanyl patches, particularly in children,[44] and advised that they should be folded, with the adhesive side in, before being discarded. The patches should be kept away from children, who are most at risk from fentanyl overdose.[45] The musician Prince died of an overdose of fentanyl in April 2016.[4
Most serious cases? My wife was given Fentanyl both times she was in labor.
How about Meth? Is that OK?
Same results only much slower.
Much of the Fentanyl on the streets is being produced illicitly in labs, mostly in Mexico. Removing it from production as a pain killer with legitimate uses would have minimal effect on street use and overdoses caused by mixing it with heroin.
Much of the Fentanyl on the streets is being produced illicitly in labs, mostly in Mexico. Removing it from production as a pain killer with legitimate uses would have minimal effect on street use and overdoses caused by mixing it with heroin.
Most serious cases? My wife was given Fentanyl both times she was in labor.
Ban life.. same results, only much slower? :sneaky: I'd be OK with meth being legalized, even though the shit is indeed really nasty. You can't keep people from themselves....
The problem here is, "50x more powerful than pure heroin".
It's one thing for a junkie to say "Man, I need to get SUPER high...", load up a 5cc syringe, and OD because the shit was a little more powerful than the last. Or for someone to take 40 Vicodin, or 20 oxycontin, or take 40 double shots of a powerful hard liquor in an hour.
But you can basically OD on fentanyl by looking at the shit wrong. It doesn't take that excess that a reasonable person is inherently unlikely to surpass; there is a good chance that even a well meaning person would end up in trouble. That's probably what happened to Prince, and that's what makes it such a public hazard.
Prohibition can work, particularly in the case of industry-produced drugs.
How many here have listened to their parents talk about Quaaludes? Or remember them? I'm sure you can probably still get them if you really want to, but it is possible for even a popular drug to basically disappear into the anals of history.
We should by and large be able to get a handle on America's prescription opioid problem, and it won't look anything like "the war on drugs".
According to her, mouth pain is much worse...ask your wife if birth labor is serious.