Runtoparadise
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Time release Is not in the coating. Chew it, cut it, grind it.
^ there's Fent pills in Canada?!? Lab not pharmaceutical?
Rtp
"...................Communities across Southern Ontario struggling to manage ballooning levels of fentanyl addiction within their population may now have to contend with the “green monster” of opiates, experts warn.
An emerald-coloured pill made in clandestine labs using often-times lethal levels of non-pharmaceutical grade fentanyl has devastated communities in Western Canada over the last few years.
And now, it’s heading east to Ontario.
“We haven't seen any, and thank God we haven't, but this drug is potentially coming our way,” said Det. Const. Mike Howell of the Sarnia Police Service’s vice unit.
“I do believe that it will be only a matter of time, unfortunately, before these drugs show up on our city streets.”
The drug’s infamous rise to popularity is partly due to its resemblance to OxyContin, an addictive pain-relief drug that was overprescribed and later became the scourge of health officials.
“Fake Oxys” is the most common street name for the new pills, with manufacturers going so far as to stamp CDN or OC—meaning OxyContin—on one side and a number, such as 80—meaning 80mg—on the other to create a familiar appearance that the drug is safe and made legally.
Other names the green pill goes by include: beans, green beans, apples, and Shady 80s, in reference to the number imprinted on the pills.
Pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma modified OxyContin to OxyNeo, making the pill more difficult to abuse by ensuring it could not be melted down and injected. As a result, drug users switched to fentanyl.
But the high concentration of fentanyl in the pills mean the drug is much deadlier that OxyContin, Howell cautioned, adding that one pill is sometimes enough to kill an adult.
“There's no equivalency for OxyContin and Fentanyl. Fentanyl is a much more potent drug and a much more dangerous drug,” he said. “If you have no idea what quantity this pill contains, then obviously it can have tragic consequences..................”
"..............Fentanyl is 40 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine..........................."
".....................The number of deaths from fentanyl overdoses has skyrocketed in Alberta, rising from six in all of 2011 to 145 at the end of June 2015..................."