Fentanyl Dealer Charged In The Overdose Death Of A US Marine

[basquebromance]

Fentanyl Dealer Charged In The Overdose Death Of A US Marine

lock him up!

 

[JGalt]

Fentanyl Dealer Charged In The Overdose Death Of A US Marine

lock him up!

..but give him a large double-dose of his own fentanyl first.

Crime should fit the punishment.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Very good.

 

[waltky]

Fentanyl and cocaine drug deaths rise...

Fentanyl and cocaine drug deaths rise

• 6 August 2018 - The number of deaths in England and Wales due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose by 29% in 2017, Office for National Statistics data shows.

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  Forms of the drug - used to treat cancer pain - are often imported illegally from Chinese laboratories and sold to users via the dark web. Deaths from psychoactive substances like spice or mephedrone halved. Drug policy campaigners called on the government to fund drug treatment and stop criminalising users. "The UK government has nowhere left to hide. They are responsible for vulnerable people dying in droves," Martin Powell from Transform Drug Policy Foundation said.
  
  He accused politicians of blocking, or refusing to fund, measures proven to save lives in other countries. Last year heroin and morphine related deaths decreased for the first time since 2012, while cocaine deaths rose. In total, 3,756 people were recorded as dying from legal and illegal drugs in England and Wales in 2017. The ONS said this figure had "remained stable", with only 12 more deaths than the year previous. Two thirds of these deaths were accidental, related to drug misuse, the ONS added.

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• The number of fentanyl deaths increased from 58 in 2016 to 75 in 2017. The drug has been found mixed with heroin, causing accidental overdoses in users. The most dangerous version of the opioid, known as carfentanyl, was behind 27 accidental fatalities during the year - the first time it has been recorded in death certificates. Harry Shapiro, director of DrugWise, said the fentanyl creeping into UK drug supplies was at least 100 times stronger than other class A drugs and that a tiny amount can be fatal.

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  Meanwhile there were 432 deaths related to cocaine in 2017 - the highest amount ever recorded. Earlier this year, security minister Ben Wallace warned the UK was "fast becoming the biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe". England and Wales's rate of 66.1 drug deaths per 1 million, is now more than three times the rate for the EU, Turkey and Norway (according to figures from the European Drug Report). The latest data showed the north east of England had a significantly higher rate of drug deaths than other regions - 83 per million people - followed by the north west of England and Wales. London had the lowest number of deaths. In Scotland, drug deaths hit a record high in 2017 and were the worst in Europe, figures revealed last month.
  

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[whitehall]

Fentanyl Dealer Charged In The Overdose Death Of A US Marine

lock him up!

Calling the drug dealer a "fentanyl dealer" somehow makes him sound legitimate. It's sad that these things sometimes happen to members of the U.S. Military just like people in the private sector but why is this one so special to a Brit poster? Is basquebromance trying to set a record on the forum for inane posts?

 

[Weatherman2020]

I was assured that drugs don’t hurt anyone.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Why in the world would anyone resist enhanced border protection?

Where is illegal fentanyl being made?
DEA special agent John Martin said illegal fentanyl has made a long journey to get here. "We believe it is manufactured in China, it is being distributed to Mexico, it is brought up through the normal drug smuggling routes of the southwest border," he told CBS News.
Fentanyl: What you need to know about the deadly opioid ...

www.cbsnews.com/news/fentanyl-what-you-need-to-kno…
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