Fentanyl is a super potent synthetic narcotic, about 80 times more potent than morphine. Two milligrams can kill. It is cheap. Street drugs, good looking pills, are often souped up with fentanyl to make them hit harder. Checks on street drugs show that 2 out of 5 contain a lethal dose of fentanyl. Many of the current over dose deaths come from taking just one pill of a street drug.
If you are a parent, guardian, relative, or other person connected with the young, you want to make sure that the kids you talk to know that street drugs will kill them. Encourage them to find a girl friend or boy friend instead of doing street drugs. They will have more fun and live longer.
If the kid just has to take something, they will live longer drinking alcohol or smoking pot.
And have a word with the doctors. According to the Wall St Journal, 70% of patients come away from a doctor’s appointment with a prescription for an opioid. This is ridiculous. And leads to opioid addiction. After the prescription runs out, the kid will start buying street drugs until they kill him. I cannot believe that 70% of patients need an opioid prescription. I have lived a long life, and just once, after a very difficult tooth extraction, was I prescribed an opioid. I would ask any doctor my kid was seeing how often he prescribed opioids. The proper answer to this question is in 1% of cases.
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