| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Lurid Crime Tales- |
| 9 people killed in 'mass fentanyl poisoning event' in Florida |
| 2022-07-07 |
| [WND] A string of recent overdoses in Gadsden County, Florida, are believed to be tied to laced pills containing fentanyl in what the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) characterized as a "mass fentanyl poisoning event." Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young said his office received about 15 calls on Friday related to the incident. There were nine deaths between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. The fatalities are due to a suspected strain of fentanyl suspected to be 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl, Young explained on a Sunday Facebook livestream, citing his conversations with the DEA. "So, we suspect that this was due to some type of an opioid or poisoning, such as fentanyl," Young said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021 How many of those who died had first been saved repeatedly by that emergency injection first responders now routinely carry in their kit? Because X died, 5X saved who would otherwise have died , or possibly X died, on average each one who died had been saved from an overdose death three times previously would put the raw death number into perspective. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-07-07 14:18 |
| #13 Now keep in mind this was reporters...if they could understand science, they might have learned to code instead. Getting crap wrong is what they do. Anytime they are right it's purely accidental. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-07-07 12:52 |
| #12 Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before... but ...There were a total of 45,222 firearm deaths in the US in 2020, an increase of 14% or 5,155 firearm deaths from 2019. And yet Biden keeps talking about gun control. The man is evil. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-07-07 12:19 |
| #11 Stop making drugs a grift for the gummint. Don't let the law enforcement community make any money off it. Don't let the courts make any money off it. Don't let the "drug treatment" community suck at the gummint teat. Accept that it's a human weakness and some people will succumb to their weaknesses. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-07 12:18 |
| #10 Drugs should be legal. You wanna see school children dropping dead on their playgrounds? Because that's what would happen. You'd be stepping over their excrement and their lifeless bodies on the sidewalks too. We know this because in San Francisco drugs are essentially legal and that is exactly what is happening there. Yeah, and they're too stoned to hold jobs so they steal and rob when they need money for their next fix so you'll have to deal with that too. Don't believe me? Ask the Chinese. It only ended in that country when Mao had them all shot. Millions of them. That's what you want for America? But, yes, we are stuck with the problem in America as long as our political and corporate elites keep pretending that it's OK to do business with China and that it's OK to leave our southern border wide open. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-07-07 11:58 |
| #9 The opioids that originally started the current epidemic were controlled. Look at how well that turned out. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-07-07 11:55 |
| #8 Kill all illicit drug users! No need. They're killing themselves. What we need is drug control! |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-07-07 11:42 |
| #7 Puzzling ?????????????? ... 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl ... ??????????????? I guess I am a little milder on the situation. I purposed Death Sentences for any addictive Illegal Drug Dealer. Where I feel, users should be at least treated. WHY? I have known several addicted Vet's that Army & VA Hospitals have strung out and dumped, that never got addiction treatment. Why? Because it pointed the finger back at the Military & VA DOC's for not doing their jobs in treating instead of tossing a pill at them to handle the case loads dump on them due Congressional UNDER $$$$$ FUNDING. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-07-07 11:35 |
| #6 Kill all illicit drug users? How retarded. Let people kill themselves with drugs on their own. That's their business, not yours or mine. Drugs should be legal. Whether you or I want to indulge in drugs or whether we detest drugs or not should be up to us. One of the biggest causes of death in the country is from prescribed medication. What's the difference? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-07-07 10:37 |
| #5 I'm basically in agreement with #4. Fair and speedy trial of course. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-07-07 10:19 |
| #4 Kill all illicit drug users! |
| Posted by: Pearl Thud6115 2022-07-07 10:17 |
| #3 a suspected strain of fentanyl suspected to be 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl, That sounds like BS. Unlike viruses, isomers or variants of organic chemicals are seldom referred to as strains, and if there was a 'strain' of fentanyl 1000x more potent (whatever that means exactly), wouldn't that be in common medical use instead? Some of the fentanyl consumed was believed to be laced with cocaine and marijuana. That is not how that works at all. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-07-07 09:25 |
| #2 They learned the technique from the British and the dumping of opium. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-07 08:45 |
| #1 Either by COVID or Fentanyl, we appear to be the subject of a rather large eradication effort by our trading partners, the Chinese. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-07-07 08:24 |