The unknown potency is a huge factor too. You never know what you get when you buy black market. But also if it was really heavily cut with something then you might also have trouble smoking enough to actually OD.
The fact is it used to be the fact that people were so squeamish about needles and really didn't want to take that next step which is what kept a lot of people's habits from getting totally out of hand.
You started smoking it, where there was minimal risk of OD, then once you got hooked real bad and realized you were getting the shakes when you stopped using it you either got help and quit, or you started shooting and it got real bad because you started needing to stretch stuff as long as it would go to save money.
You didn't have these situations where people would be smoking off of some foil and accidentally OD.
The part that drives me the craziest about this is that no opiate user would ever willingly buy fent that's been spiked with that xylazine shit they're putting in it now. This is a problem that only exists because of black markets and prohibition.
If you regulated it, you could at least regulate it sensibly with restrictions on how the ultra-extreme weapons-grade potency opiates could be sold so a lot of these accidental overdoses don't happen and people have an opportunity to get help.
The unknown potency is a huge factor too. You never know what you get when you buy black market. But also if it was really heavily cut with something then you might also have trouble smoking enough to actually OD.
That's true.
The fact is it used to be the fact that people were so squeamish about needles and really didn't want to take that next step which is what kept a lot of people's habits from getting totally out of hand.
You started smoking it, where there was minimal risk of OD, then once you got hooked real bad and realized you were getting the shakes when you stopped using it you either got help and quit, or you started shooting and it got real bad because you started needing to stretch stuff as long as it would go to save money.
You didn't have these situations where people would be smoking off of some foil and accidentally OD.
The part that drives me the craziest about this is that no opiate user would ever willingly buy fent that's been spiked with that xylazine shit they're putting in it now. This is a problem that only exists because of black markets and prohibition.
If you regulated it, you could at least regulate it sensibly with restrictions on how the ultra-extreme weapons-grade potency opiates could be sold so a lot of these accidental overdoses don't happen and people have an opportunity to get help.
They are now laced with all kinds of poison.
AND IT MATTERS NOT WHAT ANY OPIOID OR HARD "DRUGS" are laced with...one is taking their life in their own hands!!!!!!
Get rid of the Fentanyl and help the addicts get off the stuff they just MIGHT have a chance!!!!!
BUT DRYING UP THE FENTANYL IS A START!!!!!