Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived

Post by kakarot » Thu, Nov 09, 2017, 11:42 AM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #62

TaylorGood wrote: post #51

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Sorry to hear. Partaking in heavy drugs to any degree invites those dark unknowns. The number of hands these drugs pass through to reach the end-user is more than a couple. I recall on average it's 8 different turnovers. Each time, likely being cut down. They operate a margin business without concern for where it ends up. It's likely safe to say that a vast majority of drugs are cut these days. A friend I grew up wit…

> Each time, potentially being cut down. Drug potency follows something like an S-curve. As enforcement increases a drug will get increasingly stepped on, until the purity is low enough that the drug gets replaced with a more potent analog. Consumer Reports wrote about this in their guide to drugs from the 70s.

Post by krisives » Thu, Nov 09, 2017, 11:53 AM UTC

Post by krisives » Thu, Nov 09, 2017, 11:59 AM UTC

oliwarner wrote: post #174

jrowley wrote: post #9

Just the other morning I got off of bart in downtown Oakland, 12th street and there was a guy just laid out, unresponsive right on the steps outside the station. He had smoked something out of a can. I stuck with the guy while the paramedics came, but the most tragic part was that he had a plastic "No Allergies" bracelet on. When the paramedics took off his shirt he still had adhesive on his skin from the EKG straps…

Opiate ODs are given naloxone in hospital. It's really effective but they feel like shit. If it's still in their system when they leave, and they try to use, they're more likely to double-dose to get the feeling back. The problem with opiates (esp in the US) is they ones that are available are too strong and completely unforgiving. Fentanyl is an elephant gun but it's supplanting heroin on streets due to its prevalen…

Post by Alex3917 » Thu, Nov 09, 2017, 12:12 PM UTC

kakarot wrote: post #181

Alex3917 wrote: post #62

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> Each time, potentially being cut down. Drug potency follows something like an S-curve. As enforcement increases a drug will get increasingly stepped on, until the purity is low enough that the drug gets replaced with a more potent analog. Consumer Reports wrote about this in their guide to drugs from the 70s.

> Consumer Reports . . . guide to drugs Whoa. Care to further elaborate?

Post by fapjacks » Thu, Nov 09, 2017, 12:30 PM UTC

krisives wrote: post #184

dep_b wrote: post #182

The greatest argument against the death penalty is that it's not applied to the people that deserve it the most. Not only did the pharmaceutical industry earn billions by pushing addictive opioids to people but they also charge people up the nose for the injections they need after they OD'ed because they got addicted. People are still getting filthy rich literally over other people's deaths. In the name of health. I…

Can chose to not use heroin and other drugs - like most of society had informed you - and there is infinite amount of data available to anyone looking.