Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
Here’s a disturbing story from The Guardian:
Increase in fake prescription pills fuels record drug overdose deaths in the US
No kidding. It seems to have hit the American West and Southwest hardest, the same way the origins of the cocaine epidemic in the 1970s began with a massive influx of smuggled coke into a small number of Southeastern states. Like most contagions, it spread outwards, to the rest of America.
Epidemics have to start somewhere, I suppose. But rarely do they stop there.
In the current case, we’re confronted with a flood of fakes – principally opioid painkillers, but also benzo-fakes, for instance phony Xanax. The DEA claims that nine out of ten fakes actually do contain enough fentanyl to potentially prove fatal to the user.
According to the article, US overdose deaths number more than 100,000 annually (over 25 years, approaching a million) That’s almost three decades now that we’ve been dealing with this one problem, albeit in the form...
Increase in fake prescription pills fuels record drug overdose deaths in the US
No kidding. It seems to have hit the American West and Southwest hardest, the same way the origins of the cocaine epidemic in the 1970s began with a massive influx of smuggled coke into a small number of Southeastern states. Like most contagions, it spread outwards, to the rest of America.
Epidemics have to start somewhere, I suppose. But rarely do they stop there.
In the current case, we’re confronted with a flood of fakes – principally opioid painkillers, but also benzo-fakes, for instance phony Xanax. The DEA claims that nine out of ten fakes actually do contain enough fentanyl to potentially prove fatal to the user.
According to the article, US overdose deaths number more than 100,000 annually (over 25 years, approaching a million) That’s almost three decades now that we’ve been dealing with this one problem, albeit in the form...
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Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
Now what do we do about fentanyl?
...much of the fentanyl in circulation is in the form of an additive to some other drug-- cocaine, for instance, or methamphetamine, or one of the many sedatives.
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