• InvaderZinn [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Wait, I'm dumb. Can someone fill me in on this Fentanyl drama?

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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      2 years ago

      Not much to tell AFAIK. It's just a SUPER potent opiate used in hospitals/closely supervised and regulated ways, and has been finding its way into street drugs. You might remember the videos of cops being overly dramatic and pretending to die when they simply look at it, those were 6 months ago or so.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Basically everything you buy on the streets is laced with fent now. Makes overdoses much more likely to happen. Especially because people don't know they're taking fent, take a dose that would be fine if the drugs were "clean" and not laced, but is a deadly dose of fentanyl, so they end up dying or seriously hurt.

      The American answer, of course, is to do the war on drugs again.