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By Char 12/31/2023 04:32:00 PM
"Char" for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
In the state of Colorado, United States, they confirm the existence of a new drug that they estimate to be 10 times more potent and dangerous than fentanyl.
It is N-desethyl etonitazene and it is the first time that there is clear evidence of this drug in the USA.
The origin of this synthetic opioid, N-desethyl etonitazene, is located, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in China.
The confirmation of the drug occurred with the death of a person by overdose and the authorities of Boulder County, Colorado, sent the sample for investigation.
mortality.
According to the portal Gestión Sanitaria Exprés, it was a man from the state of Colorado who unknowingly bought contaminated quaaludes through the dark web from the state of Colorado.
The consumer's intention was to obtain this hypnotic drug containing methaqualone, a central nervous system depressant that causes euphoria and drowsiness, a synthetic product widely consumed in the United States; however, since it contained traces of N-desethyl etonitazene, its potency was much greater and so were its effects.
More:
https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2023/12/new-drug-that-is-10-times-more-potent.html
Voltaire2
(14,708 posts)You want heroin? No problem, go buy it at a legal pharmacy, sign off on your purchase. Known dosage, no impurities. Inexpensive too, so addict resupply crime goes way down.
Fully fund on demand rehab and outreach.
Or just continue policies that obviously not only are ineffective but make the situation worse.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Iwasthere
(3,376 posts)If I were younger and didn't have parents to take care of I would be living in Panama (incredible benefits for retired expats). Tired of the idiots in this country. I do what I can for our Democratic leaders but we're sadly reaching a threshold for me.
Elessar Zappa
(15,889 posts)Burglary and other forms of petty theft would plummet, as would murders that happen between opposing drug dealers.