# 192 

Users are now, finally coming to realize which substances can get them "high" vs those substances that can take them "low"...all the way to death.

 

The below hyperlink presents a user who explains to a reporter how unscrupulous drug dealers have deceived users who believed that they were purchasing a Central Nervous System (CNS) Stimulant (gets them "high", increases heart-rate and respiration rate).

Sadly, the user laments that deceptive marketing by unscrupulous dealers have failed to disclose that their purchase may include a more potent CNS Depressant, Fentanyl, that can make them "low"...very "Low"...all the way to death, quickly.

The reporter confirms the user's fears, in this article, with cold facts:

"Or at least J.R. hoped it was cocaine, pure cocaine — uncontaminated by fentanyl, a potent opioid that was linked to about 75% of all overdose deaths in Rhode Island in 2022. He flicked his lighter to “test” his supply. He believed that if it had a “cigar-like sweet smell,” he said, it would mean that the cocaine was laced with fentanyl. He put the pipe to his lips and took a tentative puff. “No sweet,” he said, reassured."

Not wishing to end their "habit" , the article indicates that a Professor at Brown University reports that free, or inexpensive, test strips are no being distributed to users - along with lifesaving instruction for using the strips which detect Fentanyl.

"The only way to know whether cocaine or other stimulants contain fentanyl is to use drug-checking tools such as fentanyl test strips — a best practice for what’s known as “harm reduction,” now embraced by federal health officials in combating drug overdose deaths. Fentanyl test strips cost as little as $2 for a two-pack online, but many front-line organizations also give them out free."

The reader is reminded that this blog reported on England's life-saving approach at Concerts whereby users can take their substances to an immunity table where they do not risk arrest and technicians will test their substance for free and produce a conclusion Use/Don't Use.

https://apple.news/AVhBC3h4uT4iqzAk9cOc6Hg

How low our society has stooped, man dies after Montgomery County 1st Grade teacher walks off job & sells fatal Fentanyl

 # 191

Side-job hustle by 1st Grade Teacher costs man his life. Taxpayers should be asking, “Where are the standards and supervision of Elementary Teachers.”

https://wjla.com/news/local/first-grade-teacher-arrested-fentanyl-death-case-man-dies-drug-toxicity-sarah-katherine-magdi-montgomery-county-elementary-school-drug-enforcement-administration-investigation

                                                                  # 190 

Someone’s Judgment, in qualifying/hiring this subject may provide grounds for a lawsuit by each victim under an HR doctrine known as Negligent Hire and/or Negligent Retention.

I am not going to search my Posts to find where I have written that I believe the AMA declared Alcoholism as a “disease” so insurers would pay for “treatment”…but that Physicians mostly walked away from treating this “disease.”  Additionally, they landed upon a cadre of recovering persons who obtained Masters Degrees who are the ones that recovering candidates interface with for treating their “disease.”  Cynical? If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you see a Doctor and skilled nurses for dialysis.

The deaths and injuries should spark a thorough review for onboarding non-medical personnel who Counsel persons having diseases defined by the AMA in the 1950s.

Physicians; if you truly believe it is a disease, then treat it without using non-medical middle-men/women. 

AMA, if you had two reasons for declaring it a disease:

1.To bring societal pressure on insurers to pay for the treatment.

2. To remove a societal stigma of the “alcoholic-as-weak-willed”

Then please roll-up-your-sleeves and start Physician treatment.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/05/us-news/suspected-drunk-driver-in-deadly-les-crash-is-addiction-counselor/

https://nypost.com/2024/07/05/us-news/suspected-drunk-driver-in-deadly-les-crash-is-addiction-counselor/

 # 189

Another young person's death because basic precautions re not being taken, parents may no longer be training their children in those basic precautions.

Sadly, in the below article, the following precautions I was taught as a child in the '50's/'60s  were either not taught or not followed.

1.  All controlled substances can only be obtained by presentation of a Physicians prescription issued to a Pharmacist.

2.  Prescribed controlled substances are dispensed to persons presenting identification by a Licensed Pharmacist, Hospital or Doctor's office.

3. All other paths are high risk and may cost you your life.

This blog has continuously emphasized that we do not purchase substances from strangers...on line or on the street.  We do not injest substances that originate from "some dude on a street corner."

The second article brings to light a phenomenon that occurred in the 1970's and appears to be having a resurgence.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ny-family-loses-daughter-fentanyl-overdose-after-taking-one-pill

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201809/pharming-pill-parties-teens

My high school football coach said this prayer before each game during the 1960's

Men, in life, there are three choices that are yours - and yours alone - :

1. You can select your faith

2. You can select your friends

3. You can decide what you put into your body

Now let's go out there and win this game.

British Columbia rolling back portions of decriminalization of hard drugs

 # 188

Illicit drug use is once again illegal in public spaces, after Ottawa granted B.C.’s request to walk back parts of its decriminalization experiment.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ottawa-grants-bc-request-to-recriminalize-public-drug-use

# 187

Thailand Government Reversing Decision to Legalize Marijuana/THC

We have written in earlier Posts how Colorado tracked fatal motor vehicle operator deaths for the first two years after Marijuana/THC was legalized.  During those first two years, THC displayed 33% of the driver-fatality “pie”…in the absence of alcohol.

In a recent Post, we shared a report of a young woman stabbing her boyfriend to death - more than 100 times and was successful in her defense claiming THC-induced psychosis…which resulted in a sentence of Probation.

Today, from the land of the Golden Triangle -Thailand - we read that the Government is reversing its 2019 legalizing Marijuana/THC.  The reason they are giving is that psychosis and other consequences have surfaced since 2019.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13078737/thailand-weed-legalization-rise-cannabis-crime.html

# 186. Tolerance in one subject can let him survive when the same dosage kills his 3 friends

                                                                         

                                                                        # 186

Painful Questions Deserve Truthful, Scientific Answers

Tolerance to a substance can permit one of four friends to survive a drug cocktail when he, and his three buddies self-administer identical amounts.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/kansas-city-chiefs-fans-deaths-drugs-mens-systems-show-theres-more-story-family-says

If the reader will research earlier postings, they will read how a 90lb. grandmother, dealing with the pain caused by stage 4 cancer can receive prescribed Fentanyl patches for both shoulder blades and, possibly an additional fentanyl lollipop.  Over time, her physician may increase the dosage as grandmom develops tolerance.  Her grandson Johnny’s friends learn about her Fentanyl patches.  They probably weigh more than 120 lbs each. They steal one of her patches, roll it and smoke it, then they die.

How is that possible ?

The boys have never built-up a tolerance; the grandmother has.

Reading other posts, one finds that the volume/weight of Fentanyl consumed by 200+ George Floyd was a lethal dose for men his weight. Hence, it is possible for a frequent user of a lethal substance to take the identical amount of a substance taken by him and three friends and the one who built-up a tolerance could live but the others expire.