Why fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo
 

damn...
https://i.imgur.com/LV3eb9N.jpg

The opioid crisis just keeps getting worse, in part because new types of drugs keep finding their way onto the streets. Fentanyl, heroin's synthetic cousin, is among the worst offenders.

It's deadly because it's so much stronger than heroin, as shown by the photograph above, which was taken at the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory. On the left is a lethal dose of heroin, equivalent to about 30 milligrams; on the right is a 3-milligram dose of fentanyl, enough to kill an average-sized adult male.

Fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin.

Drugs users generally don't know when their heroin is laced with fentanyl, so when they inject their usual quantity of heroin, they can inadvertently take a deadly dose of the substance. In addition, while dealers try to include fentanyl to improve potency, their measuring equipment usually isn't fine-tuned enough to ensure they stay below the levels that could cause users to overdose. Plus, the fentanyl sold on the street is almost always made in a clandestine lab; it is less pure than the pharmaceutical version and thus its effect on the body can be more unpredictable.

Heroin and fentanyl look identical, and with drugs purchased on the street, "you don't know what you're taking," Tim Pifer, the director of the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory, told STAT in an interview. "You're injecting yourself with a loaded gun."



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Serious question (Cause I genuinely don't know)

In 'Street Prices' which of the two amounts would cost more money? In other words would I get the same amount of heroin or Fentanyl for the same money, and just not need as much Fentanyl, or is the stronger stuff scalably more expensive?

duh. fentanyl is hard to get. heroin is everywhere

Fentanyl is a cheap replacement for Heroin.

People hate it when they buy heroin but get Fentanyl instead. Heroin produces better and longer high and is less deadly (much lower chance to OD).

Fentanyl was designed mainly as a more potent painkiller.

That's a wrong statement. Fentanyl is very easy to synthesize and is much cheaper. Fentanyl can be manufactured for pennies, whereas Heroin requires intensive labor (farming).


That's why dealers try to cut heroin with Fentanyl or sell Fentanyl under Heroin guise.

An opioid addict would prefer Heroin over Fentanyl 100% of the time. Heroin is safer, gives better high and lasts longer. With Fentanyl you have to re-dose more often, which leads to upping the dose more often which leads to extreme withdrawals if you miss your fix.

just keep away from that shit and you'll be fine :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_death

Soon in a town near you.........Nasty shit

^^^this. How is that not obvious? Just reading this shit make me sick

The trouble is it's ending up in cocaine too. Someone does what they think is a harmless line of coke at a party and ends up unresponsive on a sidewalk.

I don't do any of that stuff since I worry about my heart, but when they start mixing it with other drugs it's a real death trap.

How would they by fentanyl by accident if you need 10 times lesser does (as posted in picture)?
Or would it be 10% fentanyl mixed with 90% powder to have the same total amount to fool you it is heroin?

Of course 10 times more is for deadly dose (30 mg vs 3mg), maybe for non deadly does it is not the same proportions as 10:1. Anyway stil should be at least few times different proportions.

By theway un PC way to look at that - natural selection. If you are stupid (or weakling) enough to go heroine...

Spoken as if cocaine is not bad :1orglaugh

If you take drugs - you are stupid. Fact.

Never said that at all. And already said i dont do it in the same post.

The fact is dying from doing a line of coke is pretty much impossible.At least it used to be until they started cutting fentanyl in it.

Here's your answer why people are putting fentanyl in everything. Cheap and it's everywhere.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/avazbe/why-are-dealers-cutting-fentanyl-into-recreational-drugs

That is one of the interesting points I do not get about people.

Even if I was not against drugs, even if I was curious to try them, I would not do it simply because how th fuck do you know what some scumbag put in it, it can be anythng, including shit that can kill you.
You must pay me lots of money (and I would still refuse) to try even something like cocaine. And people are payng to do that. I mean even 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000001% risk of it being tainted should not be acceptable to anyone with 2 brain cells.

Agreed. I'll never touch the stuff. Especially now that you're playing Russian roulette wondering if some scumbag mixed fentanyl in it to save a few bucks.

do you drink alcohol, smoke cigs, drink coffee, eat chocolate ? masturbate ?

Neither of these can drop you dead like narcotics can, so not sure what is your point.
Surely I do something that is unhealthy.

But to please your curiosity:

alcohol: +-3 nights a month.
cigarettes: +-1 cigarette per 10 years when circumstances align (must be very drunk as the first circumstance)
coffee: +-3 cups a year (usually when I travel, like I find that instant coffee in the hotel room etc)
chocolate: almost never, I am not a fan of sweets. Mostly only when I get it as a present.
masturbate: rarely, after putting some research I found that porn and masturbation desensitize your response to actual females (plus masturbation grip is way tighter than pussy grip). You enjoy real sex much better if you don't masturbate.

junkies and druggies dont ask for fentanyl they want two bags of horse

No. There is no point in cutting coke with Fentanyl. There are much cheaper ways to cut coke - aspirin, levamisole, baking soda, etc.

Besides, Fentanyl gives completely opposite effect (sedative).


Sometimes they cut a little Fentanyl with some random shit.
Sometimes they just give you a bag of 100% fentanyl (cause it's so cheap) - that's when it's dangerous. People who don't test it and shoot up right away end up ODing.

How does it work if you need 10 times smaller dose for it to be deadly?

I mean what is the "normal" does of heroine? Way less than 3 mg (otherwise you would be dead if you got that amount of pure fentanyl)?

Lets say the normal does of herone is 4mg. So if they give you the same amount of fentanyl (4mg is more than deadly 3mg) you are very likely to die. Not sure if many scumbags would deliberately risk that.
So does it mean normal does of heroine is something like only 1mg (sounds way too little for me) in which case dealer may risk supplying same 1mg of fentalnyl instaed?

he's full of shit!!!

Someone should lace the Chump butt plugs of the neo nazi chumpanzees who post here with that shit

anywhere from 100mg to 400mg

depends on the tolerance.

Dude, you're talking out of your ass.

While I'm talking from first hand experience.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:helpme

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/delta-police-nine-overdose-warning-1.3744776

Hmm, OP says 30mg is leathal dose and you say 100-400mg is normal dose.

Somebody is full of shit here.

OP is clueless. I am speaking from (brief) personal experience, if you know what i mean.

Here's a study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11041310

It says a hardcore addict can go through 500mg of heroin per day.


Either police is clueless as always, or they just put up a scare article.

Mixing coke with Fentanyl is counter productive. One is stimulant, other is sedative.
It's much more likely for Coke to be cut with caffeine or amphetamines - it's cheaper and produces similar effects.

Just to be clear, 30mg is supposed to be lethal 1 time dose, not 1 say dose.

Plus if you say 500mg PER DAY is hardcore, it would not make sense that 400mg is "normal" per time (or even per day for that matter).

Drugs are bad, mmmkay?
(Except marijuana. Weeeed is gooood.)

:2 cents::2 cents:

Masturbation = fake sex??

jeez thats crazy.. ill stick to snorting microwaved cum

:thumbsup:1orglaugh

Britain now has a craze of doing legal high, they´re acting like idiots on the street.

Personally, nothing wrong with a few joints of MJ or a few lines of charlie at a party. TBH, charlies so cheap here in Spain, it´s hard not to enjoy a line on a weekend, but obviously more into our work, we personally don´t :2 cents:

Drugs have to be legalised to have any chance of controlling them. Most of the world knows that but too scared to try it.

The same could be argued about those who have never partaken :thumbsup

that's the thing! there is no profit!!!

good old weed and hallucinogens, nothing else