There are new developments in the Fentanyl overdoses across the country. Talk to your kids.

[flying_wahini]

Something bigger is going on here.
I think there is a deliberate killer out there targeting children. There are way too many busts getting a lot more fentanyl that is dosed to KILL.
They are coloring the tablets to look like candy.
This PA talks about the 11 deaths TODAY at her hospital.

[link:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRaHQSv2/|


https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans

Another article
[link:https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/jso-three-kilos-of-fentanyl-seized-6000-counterfeit-pills/77-f4960931-af12-4a5f-aae4-e9fda380d6fa|

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says it served a residential search warrant which resulted in three kilos of fentanyl being seized last week.
According to the DEA, the three kilos of fentanyl seized is enough to kill up to 1.5 million people.
In addition, JSO says .26 kilos of cocaine, and over 6,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl were seized.



Another….

[link:https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/19/sisters-indicted-after-deputies-find-850000-fentanyl-pills-car-headed-phoenix/|
According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Kimberli Guadalupe Torres-Marin, 26, and Alexa Torres-Marin, 19, were pulled over on Aug. 24 while they were headed toward Phoenix. In the car, Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies said they found more than 850,000 counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl in duffle bags.

“Two out of five counterfeit pills that come across our border are laced with lethal doses of fentanyl,” said Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell. “These drugs are being marketed to our youth in the most proliferous ways and are being produced in candy-like colors.”

[Effete Snob]

1. .

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[uncle ray]

2. one should ask themself if drug dealers marketing fentanyl to kids passes the smell test.

just because a cop says it, doesn't mean it's true.

[Effete Snob]

4. According to Nielsen

Fifth graders are the emerging powerhouses of disposable income.

I am totally giving away my drug supply to random children from my front door on Halloween, just so they’ll know to come back to my house with their lunch money.

[yardwork]

11. The cops have been telling people this since I was a kid, 60 years ago.

I talked to my kids about alcohol and drugs. I also talked to them about the scare tactics and lies told about drugs - many of which are basically just excuses for racism. I asked my kids why drug dealers would want to kill their potential customers.

It makes me sad and angry that Republicans are constantly making it difficult to focus on real threats based on actual science, because they always have a stupid self-serving agenda that they have to push.

[Effete Snob]

3. The GOP's Latest Bugaboo - "Rainbow Fentanyl"

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/kevin-mccarthy-fentanyl

Kevin McCarthy’s new fentanyl talking point demonstrates how hard Republicans are working to scare people into voting for them in November — facts, science, and physiology be damned.

In an effort to make it seem as though President Biden and Democrats have turned a blind eye to dangerous drugs pouring into American communities, McCarthy during recent Fox News appearances has stoked fears over a story out of Bakersfield, California, about a school employee alleged overdosing after he merely touched a fentanyl pill brought to school by a 13-year-old student.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Give a warning, man! I almost overdosed just reading that.

[flying_wahini]

18. Well the DEA supports my point. Regardless of the source of my posts.

[Footay]

6. Video

I saw two videos yesterday from health "professionals." One claimed 11 people had died in her hospital during her shift, and the other didn't spell fentanyl correctly while claiming multiple deaths. I don't believe either one of them.

[Effete Snob]

7. If you spell it correctly, it can kill you!!!!11!

[FSogol]

10. DUzy!

[FSogol]

8. Talk to your kids about not falling for RW talking points!

Those talking points can kill all of us!

Oh noes!

[yardwork]

9. Talking to your kids is always a good idea. But...

The news reports about this are full of references to "coming across the border" and "targeting children" and the timing is right before a midterm election. It's an age-old Republican strategy to scare suburban moms and dads right before an election.

Fentanyl is contaminating illicit drugs because illicit drug production has no oversight or government control. Cross contamination is common. Very tiny amounts of fentanyl are lethal. It only takes a tiny amount of fentanyl contaminant to kill someone by accident. This situation is an argument for legalizing certain drugs and regulating their production. It's an argument for voting for Democrats.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Don't fall for copaganda.

[GusBob]

13. I suggest the sceptical folks here read the books

Dreamland and. The Least of Us by Sam Quinones

Both well researched and well written

And ask yourself; why would 2 young people have 850,000 pills? The answers are in the book folks. The Mexican drug manufacturers keep switching up their m.o.

They learned to front large supplies of addictive drugs to create customers and make their dealers rich

They front large supplies because they can. They are able to manufacture huge amounts of synthetic drugs now in labs. No waiting for the poppies or pot to grow, year round production. No big bales of drugs to move

And pill presses are the latest thing for them. They are always looking at ways to recreate the market.

As far as targeting kids, I dunno, maybe they have killed off too many other customers

[flying_wahini]

14. As a mother of a recovering addict I have to say I am very disappointed in DU responses here.

Go ahead and make this a GOP propaganda issue.
You can weep later like I did.

[Sewa]

16. I agree

Had two friends die from fentanyl laced meth two years ago. Then reading about the two 15 year old that overdosed at a school in LA. One died the other barely survived. And people here want to make jokes about this killer drug. 💀👎

[Nevilledog]

17. We can understand the dangers of fentanyl abuse without adopting RW propaganda.

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Stephanie Ruhle
@SRuhle
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I didn't fear razor blades in my halloween apples in 1983
& I don't fear fentanyl this year
- mom & halloween enthusiast

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Replying to @atrupar
"Every mom in the country is worried, what if this gets into my kid's Halloween basket? The rainbow fentanyl." -- Ronna McDaniel
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9:27 PM · Sep 20, 2022

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https://www.wonkette.com/ronna-mcdaniel

[Zeitghost]

15. I guess to some

The fentanyl crisis is a right wing talking point... SMH


The issue isn't people intentionally overdosing their customers. It's poor QC. The amount of fentanyl needed to OD is miniscule. Fail to cut it correctly or mix it well enough and you get a few too many micrograms in a pill and people start dying.