A lot of questions were asked yesterday about narcotics, deaths, et cetera. I’ll try to answer them real quick here as I have one more day of work and then OFF FOR A WEEK!!!!

This is an Open Thread and I don’t need links. I see this every day in the meat world.

Codeine=1, hydrocodone x6, oral morphine x10, oxycodone x15-20, iv morphine x 40, fentanyl x1000, carfentanyl x1,000,000.

Heroin is 2 to 4 times stronger than morphine depending on route and metabolism in its purest form.

There is an increase in fentanyl being found in the junkie’s heroin. Almost all fentanyl and all carfentanyl for this use is coming out of China and being distributed through the ports on the East Coast, hence the reason this side of Interstate 80 is getting hammered, look at the map. China is at war with US on many levels, this is just one of them. Tr’Vonne and Shananay and Bubba and Betty Sue can’t cook up fentanyl in their kitchens like cooking up crack and meth, it takes pharmaceutical and chemical expertise and a lab to manufacture it.

We got a bunch of folks addicted to pain meds and then cut them off. Heroin is cheaper than the pills and far easier to get. If somebody you know needs help, finding the right treatment for addiction in Richmond might be a good option for them.
Just as we got a ton of peole addicted to pain pills, we are now encouraging heroin addiction:

The prevalence of NARCAN (the antidote to an opiate OD) is directly causing more junkies to survive the OD and causing the ER visits to skyrocket. I had one junkie, who I resuscitate three times, flat out tell me the he and his friend’s get as high as they can because they know that we will save them. We are getting in the way of Darwin way too much here and are in fact encouraging this behavior. No one forced these people to take the spike. This was started on their own free will.

When a junkie ODs, the brand of heroin that he used becomes much sought after, that stamp on the bag is like a label. Then the ER is swamped with like minded junkies who went out and got that ‘stamp bag’. Similarly, if a group of them shoot up with the same strong stamp bags, then the ER is flooded again.

See Yinz later! Post any questions and I will try my best to answer them!