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veggie
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Mix of alcohol and drugs killed SMU student [TX]
#6392612 - 12/20/06 11:08 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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SMU student overdosed on rare drug December 20, 2006 - wfaa.com
A rare but expensive drug sometimes absorbed through lollipops contributed to the death of a 20-year-old Southern Methodist University student in early December.
The Dallas County medical examiner has determined that Jacob Stiles overdosed on a toxic mixture of cocaine, alcohol and the synthetic opiate fentanyl.
The drug is used as a painkiller, but in any form fentanyl can be lethal if taken outside a prescription.
“People have died with needles in their arms,” said Kurt Kleinschmidt, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and toxicologist with the North Texas Poison Center.
“What’s really nasty about fentanyl (is) it’s a more potent narcotic than heroin or morphine - up to 100 times," Dr. Kleinschmidt said. "People can have overdoses and not know what they’ve gotten themselves into."
One expert said that nationally, more abusers prefer fentanyl patches over the lollipops. Some people apply more than one patch, while more hardcore users get a syringe and extract the drug right out of the patch.
Local, state and federal officials say that abuse of fentanyl is on the rise, but the facts it is expensive and hard to get have kept it from spreading more quickly.
Abuse is relatively rare, mostly because of the high cost. But about a month ago, a health insurance company alerted Dallas police to some suspiciously large prescription orders billed to their company for Actiq, which is fentanyl in a berry-flavored lozenge attached to a stick.
This form of the powerful synthetic opiate is designed to help manage pain of cancer patients who have trouble swallowing. But to abusers, the products are known as “perc-o-pops” or “lollipops,” and because of their potency they can plunge users into a stupor. Mix it with other drugs and the combination can be lethal, experts say.
Dallas police in the past few weeks arrested two workers at a doctor’s office for forging prescriptions for $40,000 of the lollipop form of fentanyl, known under the brand name Actiq.
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dedjam
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Re: Mix of alcohol and drugs killed SMU student [TX] [Re: veggie]
#6393066 - 12/21/06 07:09 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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This reminds me....
There is a HUGE billboard in the center of my city that has the new Sheriff on it. It reads: Drinking + Driving = DUI Drinking + Drugging = HIV
I shit you not, that is exactly what it says.
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ExplosiveMango
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Re: Mix of alcohol and drugs killed SMU student [TX] [Re: dedjam]
#6393165 - 12/21/06 08:11 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Drinking + Drugging = HIV
Must mean smack.
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The drug is used as a painkiller, but in any form fentanyl can be lethal if taken outside a prescription.
I guess everyone needs a prescription so that fentanyl will no longer be a lethal drug...
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Montanahunter420
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Re: Mix of alcohol and drugs killed SMU student [TX] [Re: ExplosiveMango]
#6393335 - 12/21/06 09:28 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Scary I just ate one of the Lolly pops and drank a few beers a week ago! These things have no recreational value! Felt like I was gonna, puke and had a unpleasant buzz. Maybe if they mentioned that in the article they don't have any recreational value people would stop eating them! Heroin = pleasant buzz oxycotin = semi peasant buzz fentanyl = feeling like your gonna puke and unpleasant
And cost wasn't high like the article mentioned. The 800 mcg ones only sell for $10 dollars, got mine for free.
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Edited by Montanahunter420 (12/21/06 09:34 AM)
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