Mexican pharmacies & fentanyl

[BelgianPup]

REALLY? Then please go to the first post of this thread and ask yourself WHY that article was written, and posted by the NPR (National Public Radio).

 

[Happy Camper]

PSA: We're all going to die! At some point.

 

[RVTravel]

Pronounced FEN TA NIL.

 

[Happy Camper]

Was just talking to someone this morning that found it a friend had just overdosed and died from fentanyl. This isn't the chance to take these days.

 

[Overland One]

I hear a commercial all the time saying over 100 people a day die from opioids in the US per day & you should turn in all unused presription opioids. Fact is only 1 or 2 deaths are from prescribed opioids. Fentanyl causes 200-300 more deaths per day. The media lies much of the time. Fentanyl is just a cheap synthetic opioid developed by big pharma, 100 times more powerful than morphine made in china who sells it to the drug cartels as well as US drug companies.
Same with violent crime, it's almost 1/2 now compared to 1990 but the media lies about also & the lie that guns are the leading cause of children's death. It's like the assault rifle lie, in 2019 10258 murders by firearms only 364 were by ALL Rifles combined! The NFA of 1934 started with only handguns then added machine guns, short barreled rifles, shotguns, silencers then dropped handguns. Machine guns & all of the above are legal after paying for a $200 tax stamp. You have to find the facts yourself as the media just plain lies.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/https://www.criminalattorneycolumbus.com/which-weapons-are-most-commonly-used-for-homicides/

Amen.

 

[BelgianPup]

Junkies die from drug overdoses, mostly illegal -- that's just how it goes.

 

[Happy Camper]

There are non junkies that overdose as well. Just saying.

 

[RonDean]

There are non junkies that overdose as well. Just saying.

Good point. I can think of very few (none?) serious issues that are not multi-faceted.

 

[kazak9999]

The article cited linked to the study. I haven't seen anyone quote the study so here are some interesting pieces from the study itself (I added some bolding for the parts I think are most interesting):

"Methods We employed an iterative, exploratory, mixed methods design. Longitudinal ethnographic data was used to characterize tourist-oriented micro-neighborhoods and guide the selection of n=40 pharmacies in n=4 cities in Northern Mexico. In each pharmacy, samples of “oxycodone”, “Xanax”, and “Adderall” were sought as single pills, during English-language encounters, after which detailed ethnographic accounts were recorded. We employed immunoassay-based testing strips to check each pill for the presence of fentanyls, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, and methamphetamines. We used Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to further characterize drug contents.
Results Of 40 pharmacies, these controlled substances could be obtained in any form with no prescription at 68.3% and as single pills at 46.3%. Counterfeit pills were obtained at n=11 (26.8%) of pharmacies. Of n=45 samples sold as one-off controlled substances, n=20 were counterfeit including 9 of 11 (81.8%) of samples sold as “Adderall” that contained methamphetamine, and 8 of 27 (29.6%) of samples sold as “Oxycodone” that contained fentanyl, and n=3 ‘Oxycodone’ samples containing heroin. Pharmacies providing counterfeit drugs were uniformly located in tourist-serving micro-neighborhoods, and generally featured English-language advertisements for erectile dysfunction medications and ‘painkillers’. Pharmacy employees occasionally expressed concern about overdose risk and provided harm reduction guidance."

So a study which was focused on "Oxy" "Xanax" and "Adderall" to the exclusion of any other medications found meth, fentanyl, and heroin. As an earlier post mentioned, if you are a geezer looking for blood pressure or blood glucose meds, the study did not attempt to purchase any of those sorts of maintenance meds. Likely because the people doing the study knew there was very little chance of finding spiked Metoprolol or Simvastatin. Risk of spiked maintenance meds must be extremely low.