Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm a Nurse at a Psych, Alcohol and Drug Detox Center. I also have 23 years clean. I know of 3 lives lost by experimentation just these past 4 months. One guy was given a line of coke for his 21st birthday. It was cut with Fentanyl and he died, one line....I just read this, and was gonna post it up, but you beat me to it!
This makes me scared to be as permissive with my kids as per drugs as I would normally be…I mean, I think experimentation is fine, and it’s a stage most of us go through (although some of us get stuck there.) but now, with all this, I feel like I should crack down and tell them not to do it, or at least not to do it without letting me know so I can be nearby, and have narcan on them at all times
I don’t for the life of me understand the fentanyl thing tho…why would you want to kill off your customers?! Seems shortsighted
A 16 year old girl went to a party, took a pill (M30) and died. I've lost many patients this year that went back out and died. Recently lost one that was found in an alley 3 days later. I live in a Border city. They're putting Fentanyl in coke, meth and heroin. Just got a new intake, he's 19 years old. He's been given everything for vomiting and my last ditch effort is a shot in the arm. If he throws up again I have to send him to the ER for IV fluids so he doesn't get so dehydrated his organs start shutting down. A normal detox is 5-7 days. With Fentanyl it's 7-10 days maybe more. The synthetic drugs stay in the body for a long time. I was like you xtcgrrrl, I know my daughter smoked pot and tried drinking etc. But I educated her about Fentanyl.
Dealers don't care about their clients dying, because there are new ones waiting in line......