Police officer overdoses on Fentanyl after responding to drug call

[MindWars]

Police Officer Overdoses on Fentanyl After Responding to Drug Call: Cops

An Ohio police officer suffered a serious fentanyl overdose after accidentally touching the substance while responding to a drug-related call, officials said.

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Oh don't worry that last post I posted on this was just fake news right ............... BAM!!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

What happened to the man who tried to brush the powder off Green's shirt?

If the druggies were emptying the bags and brushing the powder into the carpet and seats, how were they brushing the powder? What did they use? How did they open the bags?

I have really been looking into this aspect of the epidemic and find some things rather strange. Not everyone who has a hit dies! You would think that if merely getting some on your fingers would kill you, how do some of these addicts go on to more than one hit?

If they empty out the bags, what happens to powder that goes airborne? Did officer Greene breathe in any of the powder. What about the guys who bought it. Did they snort this powder?

Protocol in the future might be to just hold the suspects in place until a hazmat team gets there.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Police Officer Overdoses on Fentanyl After Responding to Drug Call: Cops

An Ohio police officer suffered a serious fentanyl overdose after accidentally touching the substance while responding to a drug-related call, officials said.

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Oh don't worry that last post I posted on this was just fake news right ............... BAM!!

I was going to call you on that post but you beat me to it LOL I will probley will make that same mistake...LOL

 

[Ima Cat]

Fentanyl is a wonderful painkiller for those who really need it and who take it as prescribed, usually via a stick-on patch.

That it is being synthesized by amateur chemists and loaded into heroin balls should not cause legitimate pain sufferers to be deprived, as authorities adopt a one size fits all DUMB response to the illicit use problem.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Fentanyl is a wonderful painkiller for those who really need it and who take it as prescribed, usually via a stick-on patch.

That it is being synthesized by amateur chemists and loaded into heroin balls should not cause legitimate pain sufferers to be deprived, as authorities adopt a one size fits all DUMB response to the illicit use problem.

Opiod addicts generally got their start from doctor prescribed painkillers. These little snowflakes should just grit their teeth and suck it up buttercup. Save the big stuff for end of life care.

 

[waltky]

Gettin' fentanyl off the streets...

DEA Makes Largest Fentanyl Bust in History, 3 Indicted
Tuesday, 20 Jun 2017 - Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested three people and seized nearly 100 pounds of the potentially lethal synthetic opioid fentanyl, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

"The opioid crisis the country is facing right now makes this indictment all the more important," DEA's San Diego Special Agent in Charge, William Sherman, said in a statement, adding "44.14 kilograms of fentanyl represents more than 44 million fraudulent pills on the street which could be fatal for users." "These dealers are trafficking in death and DEA will continue to hunt them down."

According to a news release, the amount of fentanyl seized is the largest amount ever. In its own statement, the U.S. Attorney's office in San Diego underscored the lethal potential of the drug, reporting a deadly dose of fentanyl is just 3 milligrams – and the DEA's seizure represents over 14 million lethal doses. Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, the National Institute on Drug Abuse notes, and fentanyl-related deaths have spiked in recent years, Science magazine reported last September.

As part of the drug seizures, the DEA arrested and charged three people: Jonathan Ibarra, 45, of Lemon Grove, Calif; Hector Fernando Garcia, 46, of San Diego; and Anna Baker, 30, also of Lemon Grove. All three were indicted on charges of possessing fentanyl with intent to sell. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine.

DEA Makes Largest Fentanyl Bust in History, 3 Indicted

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FDA Asks Drugmaker to Pull Opioid Painkiller
Sunday, 11 Jun 2017 - U.S. regulators want a narcotic painkiller involved in the opioid epidemic off the market amid data showing people continue to abuse it.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has asked Endo Pharmaceuticals to stop selling its reformulated, extended-release painkiller, Opana ER, after concluding the drugs's risks outweigh its benefits. It's the first time the FDA has asked a drugmaker to remove an opioid painkiller from the market. The agency said it has seen a "significant shift" from people crushing and snorting Opana ER to get high to injecting it. Endo said in a statement it's "reviewing the request and is evaluating the full range of potential options." Wall Street responded quickly with a sell-off, and Endo shares plunged 13.4 percent to $11.93 in trading after U.S. markets closed.

The FDA move comes after advisers, reviewing the safety of Opana ER at a March hearing, voted 18-8 against keeping it on the market. Besides contributing to overdoses, abuse of Opana ER was blamed for a 2015 outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C in southern Indiana linked to sharing needles, according to the FDA. "We are facing an opioid epidemic - a public health crisis, and we must take all necessary steps to reduce the scope of opioid misuse and abuse," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. "We will continue to take regulatory steps when we see situations where an opioid product's risks outweigh its benefits." About 2 million Americans are addicted to prescription opioids, and 91 die every day from overdosing on a painkiller or much-cheaper heroin.

Endo first got U.S. approval for its extended-release opioid, Opana ER, in 2006. It reformulated that drug in 2012 and claimed the changes made it harder to manipulate physically or chemically to abuse it. Endo tried to persuade FDA officials that the new formulation was abuse-resistant, which likely would have given the product a marketing advantage in the crowded, lucrative category of opioid painkillers. The FDA didn't agree, refusing to let Endo market the new formulation as abuse deterrent when it granted approval for sales several years ago. If Endo doesn't comply with the FDA's request to stop selling Opana ER, the agency can hold a hearing and start a formal process for rescinding its approval.

According to the FDA, there are no generic versions of the reformulated Opana ER on the market. However, generic versions of both the original Opana ER and the original immediate-release version, called oxymorphone ER, are on sale. Those generic products might also face action by the FDA, which said it is "assessing the latest available data on abuse patterns." Endo Pharmaceuticals makes generic pills and specialty drugs, which generally are expensive medicines for complex disorders. It's part of Endo International plc, which is based in Dublin, Ireland, and has U.S. headquarters in the Philadelphia suburb of Malvern. Endo had about $4 billion in revenue last year, only $159 million of that from Opana.

FDA Asks Drugmaker to Pull Opioid Painkiller

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Ohio Sues Five Drug Companies Over Opioid Crisis
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - The state of Ohio on Wednesday sued five major drug manufacturers, accusing them of misrepresenting the risks of prescription opioid painkillers that have fueled a sky-rocketing drug addiction epidemic.

The suit, filed by Attorney General Mike DeWine, comes as a growing number of state and local governments are suing drugmakers and distributors, seeking to hold them accountable for a deadly and costly opioid crisis. Opioid drugs, including prescription painkillers and heroin, killed more than 33,000 people in the United States in 2015, more than any year on record, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The five companies Ohio sued were Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc unit, a unit of Endo International Plc, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's Cephalon unit and Allergan Plc.

DeWine said the companies helped unleash the crisis by spending millions of dollars marketing and promoting such drugs as OxyContin and Percocet, overstating their benefits and trivializing their potential addictive qualities. "These companies continue to mislead the public," DeWine said at a press conference in Columbus. Janssen spokesman Jessica Castles Smith said in an emailed statement: "The allegations in this lawsuit are both legally and factually unfounded." She said Janssen has acted responsibly regarding its opioid pain medications, which are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and carry FDA-mandated warnings on their labels about the drugs' known risks.

Purdue said in an emailed statement: "We share the attorney general's concerns about the opioid crisis and we are committed to working collaboratively to find solutions." Allergan, Teva and Endo declined to comment. The suit, filed in Ross County, in Southern Ohio, where addiction has hit hard, alleges the drug companies violated the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, committed Medicaid fraud, and created a public nuisance by disseminating false and misleading statements. It seeks to halt deceptive practices, a declaration the companies acted illegally and unspecified damages to the state and consumers. In Ohio, which has one of the nation's highest overdose rates, 4,169 people died from overdoses last year, according to figures compiled by the Columbus Dispatch.

Last year, 2.3 million Ohio residents were prescribed opioids, nearly a fifth of the state's population, in turn helping fuel heroin abuse, DeWine said. Drug companies including Purdue and Johnson & Johnson have been fighting lawsuits by two California counties, the city of Chicago, four counties in New York and the state of Mississippi over their opioid marketing practices. Several West Virginia counties have filed lawsuits in recent months against drug wholesalers McKesson Corp, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen for failing to report suspicious orders of opioids in the state. West Virginia's attorney general earlier reached settlements with Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen for a combined $36 million to resolve similar claims.

Ohio Sues Five Drug Companies Over Opioid Crisis

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

This is really getting nuts. Now they are injecting themselves with blood from someone that is high.

People inject themselves with other people's blood | Daily Mail Online

 

[MindWars]

This is really getting nuts. Now they are injecting themselves with blood from someone that is high.

People inject themselves with other people's blood | Daily Mail Online

That's sick , and beyond being a dumbass.

 

[waltky]

Drug poisoning deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States...

DEA: 52,404 Drug Overdoses in 2015; 144 People a Day
October 24,s 2017 | - Drug poisoning deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, killing 52,404 people in 2015, or about 144 people a day, the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a report released on Monday.

Drug overdoses "are currently at their highest-ever recorded level and, every year since 2011, have outnumbered deaths by firearms, motor vehicle crashes, suicide and homicide," the report said. DEA said the 52,404 drug overdose deaths counted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2015 exceeded the 44,193 suicides in that year; 37,757 motor vehicle crashes; 36,252 firearms deaths; and 17,793 homicides. (The report notes that deaths may be counted multiple times because of overlapping categories.) And according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, preliminary data indicate that around 60,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2016, so the number continues to rise.

While the nation's opioid epidemic has received most of the attention lately, that's only part of the story. According to the 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment: "[T]he methamphetamine threat has remained prevalent; the cocaine threat appears to be rebounding; new psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to be a challenge; and the focus of marijuana enforcement efforts continues to evolve." The Drug Enforcement Administration, using CDC data, said opioids (prescription opioids, heroin, and fentanyl) represented 63 percent of the approximately 52,404 drug overdoses in 2015. That works out to 91 opioid overdose deaths a day.

While recent data suggests abuse of prescription drugs has lessened in some areas, the number of individuals reporting current use of controlled prescription drugs is still more than those reporting use of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA, and phencyclidine (PCP) combined. The total economic burden of prescription drug abuse was estimated to be $78.5 billion in 2013. This includes increased health care and substance abuse treatment costs as well as criminal justice costs. "The costs of prescription opioid abuse represent a substantial and growing economic burden for the society," the report said. "The increasing prevalence of abuse suggests an even greater societal burden in the future."

Other findings:

 

[waltky]

`Cause people want to feel no pain...

Why opioids are such an American problem
25 October 2017 - When it comes to taking opioids, the United States has the dubious honour of leading the world.

For every one million Americans, almost 50,000 doses of opioids are taken every day. That's four times the rate in the UK. There are often good reasons for taking opioids. Cancer patients use them for pain relief, as do patients recovering from surgery (codeine and morphine are opioids, for example). But take too many and you have a problem. And America certainly has a problem. In two years, the town of Kermit in West Virginia received almost nine million opioid pills, according to a congressional committee. Just 400 people live in Kermit.

Jeff, a heroin user in NYC​

Nationally, opioids killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That figure includes deaths from heroin, an illegal opioid. But almost half involved a prescription opioid - that is, a painkiller available from a pharmacy with a note from a doctor. So why does America - more than any country in the world - have an opioid problem? There is more than one cause. But these are some of the most important.

American doctors prescribe - a lot

Unlike most European countries, the US does not have universal healthcare paid for by taxes. Instead, Americans must get their own insurance - usually via an employer or the government. "Most insurance, especially for poor people, won't pay for anything but a pill," says Professor Judith Feinberg from the West Virginia University School of Medicine. "Say you have a patient that's 45 years old. They have lower back pain, you examine them, they have a muscle spasm. "Really the best thing is physical therapy, but no one will pay for that. So doctors get very ready to pull out the prescription pad. "Even if the insurance covers physical therapy, you probably need prior authorisation (from the insurer) - which is a lot of time and paperwork." The CDC says opioid prescriptions have fallen by 18% from their peak in 2010. But the total is still three times higher than in 1999.

'I saw this drug on TV'

The US and New Zealand are the only countries that allow prescription drugs to be advertised on television. According to the research firm Kantar, spending on advertising by pharmaceutical companies in the US reached $6.4 billion in 2016 - a rise of 64% since 2012. None of the 10 most-advertised brands in 2016 was an opioid. But mass-marketing of drugs has an effect, says Professor Feinberg. "As a clinician, people will come and say 'I saw this on TV - can you give me this drug'. "Sometimes they were so confused, they were already on the drug - they were using the brand name, where I used the generic name."

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[Muhammed]

Fentanyl is a wonderful painkiller for those who really need it and who take it as prescribed, usually via a stick-on patch.

That it is being synthesized by amateur chemists and loaded into heroin balls should not cause legitimate pain sufferers to be deprived, as authorities adopt a one size fits all DUMB response to the illicit use problem.

Opiod addicts generally got their start from doctor prescribed painkillers. These little snowflakes should just grit their teeth and suck it up buttercup. Save the big stuff for end of life care.

The is no painkiller shortage.

 

[waltky]

Three Massachusetts Police Officers Sickened by Fentanyl Exposure...

Massachusetts Police Officers Sickened by Fentanyl Exposure
December 13, 2017 - Three Lawrence police officers were exposed to the dangerous opioid fentanyl after a mother told police her son and a friend were dealing drugs out of her apartment Monday night.

Three police officers were possibly exposed to the dangerous opioid fentanyl after a Summer Street mother told police her son and a friend were dealing drugs out of her apartment Monday night. The officers, Richard Brooks, Leo Silvera and Philip Hendricks, said they felt lightheaded and complained of a funny taste in their mouths after responding to the first floor apartment at 30 Summer St. just after 7 p.m. An unknown quantity of what appeared to be "heroin and fentanyl," two opioids that are commonly mixed, was found in a bedroom of the apartment, according to a police report. The three officers "were all feeling sick from the search of the apartment" and were taken to Lawrence General Hospital ER for treatment.

Police Chief James Fitzpatrick said Narcan, a drug which reverses the effect of an opioid overdose was not used. The three officers were checked out as a precaution and later released, he said. Fentanyl is a manmade opioid which is 50 times stronger than morphine. Simple contact with fentanyl can be harmful, first responders have said. The drug is often mixed with illegal doses of heroin and has been blamed for fatal overdoses throughout the region, which remains in the grip of an opioid epidemic. Walter Garcia, 35, of 30 Summer St., was arrested and charged with illegal drug possession as a result of the incident. Both Garcia and his friend were in the apartment when police arrived, according to the report.

Three Lawrence police officers were exposed to the dangerous opioid fentanyl after a Summer Street mother told police her son and a friend were dealing drugs out of her apartment Monday night.​

Garcia said his friend was in the bathroom — but when police opened the door they discovered "the male that was in the bathroom had jumped out through the bathroom window and fled the area," according to the report. In the report, officers said "in plain view in the bathroom trash" they found a glassine baggie containing several small glassine baggies of a "white and brown powder substance." Police also asked the woman if she knew where her son was hiding the drugs in the apartment. She said right before police arrived her son "had placed something in a plastic bag under the cabinets of the sink."

The woman also gave the officers permission to search her son's bedroom. She signed a consent to search form, according to the police report. During the bedroom search, police found "more quantity of what appears to be heroin and fentanyl." "The quantity of the drugs was not documented due to the fact that we believed there to be fentanyl mixed with the glassine baggies containing heroin," according to the report. Cell phones, cash, credit cards and identifications from several individuals were also seized as evidence by police.

Massachusetts Police Officers Sickened by Fentanyl Exposure

 

[JimBowie1958]

People react differently to drugs, it is not all the same.

Fentenyl is a powerful pain killer that is legitly used in microns, but idiot dope dealers often use it to spice up their cut shit and then sell it to unsuspecting fools.