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12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI]
#5651680 - 05/19/06 10:04 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Drug mixture blamed for 12 deaths in 2 days in Wayne County Associated Press May 19, 2006 - woodtv.com
DETROIT - A lethal mixture of a pain control drug and heroin or cocaine has caused the deaths of at least 12 people in Wayne County since yesterday. Four deaths were reported yesterday, followed by eight today.
Vanessa Denha-Garmo is a spokeswoman for County Executive Robert Ficano.
She says all the victims apparently overdosed on a combination of narcotics and Fentanyl (FEN'-tuh-nil) -- a pain-killer used by patients with terminal cancer.
Denha-Garmo says the bodies have been found on the streets or in crack houses in Detroit or in suburbs west of the city.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: veggie]
#5652381 - 05/20/06 05:50 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060520/NEWS02/605200316/1001/NEWS
At least 12 people died in 24 hours Thursday and Friday in Wayne County from a potent prescription drug mixed with heroin and cocaine, said officials who expect more deaths over the weekend.
Officials issued an alert late Friday, saying they feared drug dealers were adding fentanyl, a powerful drug prescribed to cancer patients, to heroin and cocaine to boost the high for their customers. The victims ranged in age from 20 to 45 and were found in crack houses and on the streets in Detroit, Dearborn Heights, Lincoln Park, Redford and Westland. Eight deaths were reported Friday and four on Thursday, mostly from a heroin-fentanyl mix. Names of victims were not released. Hospitals and authorities in Oakland and Macomb counties reported no similar deaths.
Fentanyl is supposed to be used only by those suffering from around-the-clock pain. If consumed in large amounts, it can cause breathing problems, possibly fatal, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Like heroin, fentanyl can act as a strong sedative, giving users a drowsy high. But it's potentially more dangerous. Last year, the FDA issued a public warning about inappropriate use of the prescription drug.
From September through March, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed 106 drug deaths, the majority linked to combinations of fentanyl and heroin. But the increase in deaths Thursday and Friday prompted county and state officials to announce a health alert Friday.
Officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta are headed to Wayne County on Monday to assess the problem, said Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano.
"We are not trying to have panic, but this is a very serious public health issue," Ficano said Friday. "The dramatic spike within the past 24 hours shows that there's a very lethal amount that is being distributed on the street at this very moment."
T.J. Bucholz, spokesman for the state Department of Community Health, said the CDC is interested in Detroit's cases because of similar events reported in other cities.
The CDC is particularly interested in whether the Detroit drugs may have come from Chicago, where there have been reports of fentanyl-laced heroin causing overdoses and death, Bucholz said.
Similar outbreaks of deaths linked to mixtures of fentanyl and heroin were reported last weekend in the Philadelphia area.
Last weekend, 22 people went to Chicago hospitals after overdosing on the fentanyl-heroin mix.
Two CDC officials said Friday they were unaware the agency was sending investigators to Detroit. The CDC typically does not investigate Fentanyl-related deaths.
"We have no information about CDC being asked to investigate," said agency spokeswoman Bernadette Burden. Oakland County Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic called the Wayne County deaths "significant" and said they could indicate people were getting their drugs from the same source.
"That calls for looking at the location" of the victims, "whether they were from the same neighborhood or dope house to see if there is any geographic pattern. Then you would have to focus on the suppliers."
Ficano and Chief Wayne County Medical Examiner Carl Schmidt said there is a good chance that street dealers don't know what fatal mixture lies in the drug packages they are selling. Schmidt said victims are injecting or snorting the drugs.
Area hospitals, law enforcement agencies and EMS networks have been notified of the drug crisis.
"Drug use does dramatically go up on the weekends, both recreational and those of addiction," Ficano said. "From what I understand it's almost an instantaneous death when you take it with the combination."
Ficano said he's also concerned that people who injected drugs could be lying dead, undiscovered, in crack houses or drug dens. Michele Reid, Wayne County's medical director of mental health services, said there is treatment for people who overdose on the drug if they get to an emergency room immediately.
Those who take the drug mixture may notice extreme euphoria followed by difficulty walking, or a deep slumber accompanied by heavy snoring, she said.
Major dealers may be cutting the drugs with fentanyl to give their product a better boost.
"It's competitive," Ficano said. "They can brag that they have the substance that gives you a better high. It's capitalism."
Fentanyl, first made in Belgium in the late 1950s, can be about 80 times more powerful than morphine, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Today the potent prescription painkiller is dispensed in the form of a patch, say federal officials.
In 2003, the last year for available U.S. figures, there were 418 deaths in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties from opiates, a drug category that includes Fentanyl, other prescription drugs like OxyContin and heroin. Out of those 418 deaths, 72 were from heroin. One variation of fentanyl is sometimes known as China White, according to medical experts.
A national health official said the number of deaths in Detroit is high.
"That's a lot," said Leah Young, spokeswoman for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: veggie]
#5652943 - 05/20/06 11:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oh nooooes! People dying from OD's in Detroit?! That's news? I thought that was just something you assumed every day you woke up..... *yaaaaaaaaaaawn* "Ahhhh, well.... another 20 dead druggies in D-town today...."
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: DNKYD]
#5652999 - 05/20/06 11:22 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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dont do heroin.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5653029 - 05/20/06 11:30 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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this is nothing to do with heroin, and everything to do with it's manufacture and sale not being regulated by the state
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: OJK]
#5653168 - 05/20/06 12:19 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah and heroin
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5653703 - 05/20/06 03:34 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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its fentanyl's fault. a normal dose of standard grade heroin. is nowhere near as deadly a dose of standard grade fentanyl. although opium contains fentanyl, in high quantities like this (probably gel mixed with heroin powder), its quite fuckin deadly.
no shit heroins addictive, but it wasnt responsible for killing those people.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: CptnGarden]
#5653829 - 05/20/06 04:19 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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ShroomieOfDoomie said: its fentanyl's fault. a normal dose of standard grade heroin. is nowhere near as deadly a dose of standard grade fentanyl. although opium contains fentanyl, in high quantities like this (probably gel mixed with heroin powder), its quite fuckin deadly.
no shit heroins addictive, but it wasnt responsible for killing those people.
Yeah, I know what you are saying. I just see it in a different way. They want heroin - buy something sold as heroin - die. Moral of the story... don't do heroin.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5653878 - 05/20/06 04:38 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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thats a half-ass moral of the story.
legalize heroin and produce it so that the sources will always be pure and provide fresh needles and safety gear so that one can inject safely with reduced chance of STD's, cysts, violence, and OD'ing. Mainly, Educate not slanderize.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: CptnGarden]
#5653991 - 05/20/06 05:28 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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ShroomieOfDoomie said: thats a half-ass moral of the story.
legalize heroin and produce it so that the sources will always be pure and provide fresh needles and safety gear so that one can inject safely with reduced chance of STD's, cysts, violence, and OD'ing. Mainly, Educate not slanderize.
Good luck with that. Probably better off making your own... The government is not going to legalize heroin anytime in the foreseeable future. They wont even legalize cannabis!
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5657337 - 05/21/06 05:39 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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EquilibriuM, you're a shit head.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5659855 - 05/22/06 11:46 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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why do you say such a thing?
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5660067 - 05/22/06 12:59 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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theres no way heroin will become legalized - hes just stating an obvious fact.
its probably better for me that it wont be anyways - i got a pretty addictive personality ;p
and besides even if the drug was legalized - there would still be a grip of people who dont know what the fuck theyre doing ODing on legalized forms of the drug - or trying to mix it with other drugs to get more fucked up
no matter what people are going to die - from earthquakes -floods - drugs whatever -
its a part of life - natural selection or some shit
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: OJK]
#6087557 - 09/21/06 05:42 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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Odiumjunkie said: this is nothing to do with heroin, and everything to do with it's manufacture and sale not being regulated by the state
So you're saying that the mixture of hard drugs that caused the 20 deaths is the fault of the state for not suppplying that same mixture?
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: Daybreak]
#6087568 - 09/21/06 05:44 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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That would be like saying if I sleep with your wife it's your fault for not keeping her satisfied.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: Daybreak]
#6088150 - 09/21/06 08:20 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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Odiumjunkie said: this is nothing to do with heroin, and everything to do with it's manufacture and sale not being regulated by the state
So you're saying that the mixture of hard drugs that caused the 20 deaths is the fault of the state for not suppplying that same mixture?
You're missing his point completely. Take a second and think real hard about it (even if it hurts).
What Odium is saying is that if this substance were legal it would be regulated so that no other ingredients would make their way into the end product. The cocktail that these poor schleps took was heroin AND fentanyl (read the article). With regulation there would be no fentanyl in their heroin and they would have lived to shoot up another day. Think before you open your mouth and make a fool of yourself. Or don't. I enjoy shooting down stupid arguments such as yours.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: DNKYD]
#6088416 - 09/21/06 09:22 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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this has been a fairly big problem all throughout the main cities in the midwest lately. I know a person from the grand rapids area who died recently to this mix... *strange coincidence* he was my unofficial sponser in NA when i got out of rehab after i got out of high school... I was shocked to see he died of an OD on fentanyl, i knew the man was a addict, but addict can be good people and he was a good person... If the government was regulating heroin instead of letting people who don't have the crookedest fuck of an idea what they are doing manufacture it, not so many GOOD people would be dying from heroin usage...
I don't shoot heroin anymore, and with the fentanyl problem I am glad, but that doesn't mean that a good person like myself, couldn't end up dead because some stupid fucks added something to my acid, ecstacy, other other various form ofter mind-altering deliciousness. If the government actually gave a shit about it's people it would begin to understand drugs aren't leaving, no war is going to stop them and they would begin to regulate our drugs, especially ones that use needles such as heroin.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: veggie]
#6088499 - 09/21/06 09:47 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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Heroin is for losers!
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: DNKYD]
#6089364 - 09/22/06 04:35 AM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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Odiumjunkie said: this is nothing to do with heroin, and everything to do with it's manufacture and sale not being regulated by the state
So you're saying that the mixture of hard drugs that caused the 20 deaths is the fault of the state for not suppplying that same mixture?
You're missing his point completely. Take a second and think real hard about it (even if it hurts).
What Odium is saying is that if this substance were legal it would be regulated so that no other ingredients would make their way into the end product. The cocktail that these poor schleps took was heroin AND fentanyl (read the article). With regulation there would be no fentanyl in their heroin and they would have lived to shoot up another day. Think before you open your mouth and make a fool of yourself. Or don't. I enjoy shooting down stupid arguments such as yours.
Shutup queer.
You're probably one of them dirty hippys that think a shit drug like heroin should be legalized.
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Re: 12 drug deaths in 2 days in Wayne County [MI] [Re: Daybreak]
#6089486 - 09/22/06 07:15 AM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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People who do H could give less than a fuck about their health. They know the risk. If you do heroine you are flirting with death.
But, I agree that prohibition is never the answer. Nor is censorship. Everyone in life has their thing.
Education is the answer. Some people will never learn because a) they refuse or b) they are unable. Either way, that's life and it's natural.
Fucking holier than thou squares will never understand that. So they try to ban everything they don't understand and as a result make the world a darker place. I hope for their sake that there is a lord so thier time isn't wasted when they run to church every Sunday on their knees preying for forgiveness.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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