ATTENTION US East-Coast Members: Bad Batch of Heroin Responsible for 4 Deaths in 24h

Damn. Yeah, whenever batches like that come around.. a lot of people drop in its wake.

The sick thing is that, addiction is so powerful, that a lot of junkies will now actually go seek that stamp out, because now they know how strong it is. My using buddies and I used to do the same kind of thing years ago.. whenever there was an article in the paper talking about a batch of dope that killed a lot of people, we'd go look for it because it was clearly good...

I mean.. talk about fucked up. I hope that these kids out there today view this as the real danger it is and stay the hell away from this shit.
 
Spiked batches happen more often than reported, at least by the major media outlets. The 2006 spike was fortunately an extreme example of that. Still unknown product and purity is one of the terrible side effects of illicit drug use.

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I'm not trying to be a jerk to the OP, but please post the whole article next time. It actually names where this is happening, Pittsburgh, were users should be extra careful right now.
 
Scary shit lets hope these are the last lives lost to this but I highly doubt it.
its unacceptable we are forced to deal with shit like this because our government wants to keep us suppressed and trapped in a truely pointless cycle that is the war on drugs.
These deaths are so avoidable and unnecessary.
In this revolutionary time where drugs are finally getting some positive attention we need to push for legalization of all substances.
regulation and a legal market based on education and harm reduction could save so many lives and stimulate the economy. More people are realizing that prohibition in pointless and not the answer anymore.
 
That's horrible..
how people can cut that shit with fent is beyond me..
How did this help business in any way, I hope these fuckers are caught and spend lengthy times in prison for these murders.

Another prime example of why we need to legalize..
prohibition and black markets lead to death these are human lives we are talking about.
do people really deserve to die because they choose to use heroin?
 
It's always interesting to me, when there is a particularly strong batch of drugs the media refers to it as a "bad batch" initially, when really it's not necessarily a bad batch, just an unusually pure batch. I realize this stuff is cut with fentynal, but even as the article says it doesn't make it "bad", it makes it more potent. There are much worse things heroin could be cut with that really would be BAD.

It's sad though, because most of the junkies who read this are going to specifically seek out "Theraflu" stamps.


I'm so glad I don't live out east anymore. Even today, whenever i think about relapsing I don't think about anything I ever got out here on the west coast, I only ever fantasize about those stamps back east...
 
Tainted Heroin Warnings Blanket Pa. As Overdose Deaths Swell
Liz Reid
NPR
February 1st, 2014

Heroin overdoses are a routine part of life in the emergency room, and they're fairly easy to treat. Dr. Bruce MacLeod is used to seeing them at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.

But over the last week, West Penn and other area hospitals have seen an increase in the number and severity of opiate overdose cases coming into emergency rooms.

"A number of them came in that had already died, so that's unusual," MacLeod says. "We saw that echo across western Pennsylvania."

Public health officials are blaming a tainted batch of heroin for at least 22 deaths in western Pennsylvania over the last week and a half. More are possible, they say, but their warnings are unlikely to deter all users, so they're teaching addicts how to recognize the signs of an overdose — and how to get help.
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Read the full story here.

Be careful! And get naloxone if at all possible.
 
Beyond naloxone, make sure you use around other people that know what to do if you fall out.


The interesting thing is these fentanyl overdoses started out in eastern PA months ago, not really in Philly, but along the highways from Philly. Small market areas. They didn't spread here and they seem to be moving out west. My money is on it being an independent dealer(s), without any ties to the latin cartels, which would have flooded the whole market if they had access to fentanyl.
 
makes you stop and think about what youre really doing getting involved with it thats for sure. and im sitting on here recently sneering at the possibility of it happening to me.

You dont know where the stuff comes from really, you may think you do but you dont

shiiiitt
 
Im getting the impression that this media coverage is presented in a way that will be seen as prevention, but in reality works against the favor of.. lets say drug addicts, and in favor of an organization like the DEA, for e.g.
 
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Deadly Batch Of Heroin Laced With Painkiller Hitting Md. Streets
Christie Ileto
CBS Baltimore
January 31st, 2014

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A dramatic surge in heroin deaths is happening across the country. Health officials warn it’s because of a lethal new trend–spiking heroin with powerful painkillers.

Dozens of Marylanders have already died.

Christie Ileto has more on the deadly drug mixture.

Health officials say that combination is deadly. And it’s not just happening in one part of Maryland, but across the state.

State health officials say a deadly batch of heroin is hitting Maryland streets. The already potent drug is now being laced with fentanyl–a powerful painkiller.
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I would avoid the comments section of this article, it's pretty depressing.
 
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^^ Fuck me. :(

You said "avoid the comments, it's depressing"

So naturally, I went strait to the comments. An hour, 20something comment replies and a lot of anger and disgust later..... :(
 
Mr.Scagnattie said:
They think it was also fent laced dope that killed Philip Seymore Hoffman in NY.

It was stamped "Ace of Hearts".
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Hopefully people will wake up and see that more people are dying from dangerous adulterants/contaminants due to the war on drugs than the actual pure form of the drugs being sold on the streets. From fentanyl heroin to PMA ecstasy.
 
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Yeah hopefully. I mean, if this isn't a clear sign of the absolute failure and hypocrisy of the war on drugs, I don't know what is.

It's just sad that so many people, many of them young, have to die for these points to me made. And honestly, nothing is going to change anyway, so they died in vein.
 
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