Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Heroine deaths are increasing.

There is less and less pure heroine on the street. It is being laced with other drugs, the latest fentanyl. Addicts should be encouraged to go to methadone clinics to save their own lives. The street drugs, for some reason, are becoming far too dangerous. Why does 'the buzz' always have to be better than the time before?

March 14, 2016
By Paul Walsh

An outbreak of drug overdoses (click here) in the Fargo-Moorhead area, with at least three confirmed deaths, has prompted law enforcement to sound the alarm Sunday about the spreading danger.
At a hastily called news conference, police in Fargo joined their colleagues in Moorhead and other nearby communities to say that they fear the overdoses are being fueled by heroin laced with even more potent narcotics.
The lacing with painkillers such as fentanyl and morphine is making the ingesting of heroin "even more dangerous than it already is," said Fargo Police Chief David Todd.
Moorhead Police Chief David Ebinger said there is a "strong chance there's something more deadly than what we've been contending with up to this point."...

Fentanyl is an opioid just like heroine. (click here) Poor economic conditions escalate the drug use. What follows is theft and then court, jail and prison. Enough of this.