Thrill

Can you elaborate? I'm going to assume if medical no more then a PA or LNP? I'm asking because I read some of Sam Quinones' work....and not only is he not objective....he is a moron. He has zero understanding regarding addiction. Literally....his stance is we are too accommodating and polite to addicts. he reinforces his "deductions" being of dire need since he likens a drug user as someone who has dedicated their life to purely the self and caring for nothing or no one. During the Vietnam war, there was a lot of concern in the states when it was realized how many service members were using heroin since that means we have all these heroin addicts coming back. Ironically, and to the dismay of Mr. Quinones' theories, almost all of them magically never touched the drug again when home. None of them needed "forced rehab under threat of criminal charges or force" as he contends. See, we're starting to understand that if you can get them to talk...you find that without fail an addict is someone who has something broken....whether from their past or something going on currently. And with people like that author out there saying anyone who uses a drug is unable to think for themselves and should be forcibly locked away....it can be hard to convince those people it's ok to ask for help. I'm sure he's an excellent law enforcement journalist (it's why he knows so many in LE), but he literally cites their opinions and obviously didn't care to educate himself. When he called P2P meth a new super drug invented to replace ephedrine reacted meth.....that alone told me he's not anyone worth listening to. And no......cartels aren't putting fentanyl into drug to hook buyers in the states. Cartels generally prefer to avoid any "extracurricular" attention from US law enforcement, and adding an extremely dangerous synthetic opiate to everything they sell would do just that. Most deaths you hear about from opiate overdose, and I mean the vast majority, weren't caused by opiates. They were caused from mixing the opiate with some form of a benzo (xanax). Granted, I'm not a doctor.....that's my wife. She's the MD. I'm just a automation robotics nerd. Still, I'm a bit disappointed after reading all posts as I was wondering if anyone else had seen the problem with the reported story as I had..... They did not have that reaction from fentanyl or cocaine. Being as how all sources I can find reporting on the story can't confirm suspicion that fentanyl was present merely suspected makes the obvious even more glaring....they were inadvertently poisoned with something I'm sure the dealer thought would fool them into thinking they were getting real cocaine long enough for them to get their money and leave. Whatever they got stopped their hearts, which is not how an opiate overdose works. Opiates when taken too much will make you sleepy....and when you go to sleep your system is to suppressed to remember to breath..and you suffocate. You don't just fall over with your heart stopping. And while too much cocaine can cause cardiac arrest, those circumstances don't lead to people assuming there was anything in your cocaine but cocaine. And while technically possible to be affected by fentanyl just by virtue of being around it....you'd have to be indoors, poor ventilation, cramped quarters, and someone literally taking a bag of it and shaking it around to get it in the air. Which solidifies it more for me....they bought bad dope from a wannabe drug dealer. But if people would rather have faith that there is an alliance of evil who wakes up hating "your freedoms" and are constantly trying to drug you to either kill or subjugate you....LOL....have it