Fentanyl is crazy strong, but isn't carfentanil even more dangerous?
My wife used to get fentanyl patches for pain and had to spray the area with an asthma spray as the patches were giving her rashes! She was all over the place while on those and they were in micro gram patches.
"For pain relief, a unit of carfentanil is 100 times as
potent as the same amount of fentanyl, 5,000 times as potent as a unit of
heroin and 10,000 times as potent as a unit of
morphine." That is from Wikipedia. But, I have tragic experience with this in a group of 18-20 yer old boys a few years back that THOUGHT they were buying xanax. Turns out it was fake xanax bars laced with carfentanil making there way onto the market. Killed one of the kids in matter of minutes.
Another kid in the group died weeks later from a combination of heroin and cocaine....smoking both with marijuana......then took some hydrocodone to sleep. The hydrocodone depressed his breathing and he aspirated during the night....literally drowned as his lungs filled with fluid. Official cause of death was "heroin toxicity" due to the way these drugs burn off in the system.
Now, as to parents being to blame or who failed who? Untreated mental health issues is the problem 9 out of 10 times in my humble opinion. This, combined with immaturity, is a fatal combination. There is a gap in our system for kids 15-18...especially for kids that do not have awesome insurance or are able to manipulate their way in and out of treatment. Sometimes you are dealing with kids that have a 150 IQ and are bored. Other times, you are dealing with a dumbass that will do a drug just to see what happens. Both ends of the spectrum have to do with the brain and how that particular kid deals with whatever they perceive as trauma in their lives.
I have seen kids with parents that didn't care make it just fine. I have seen kids with parents that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on therapy lose a child. I have seen parents quit their job and literally live years of their lives working within the legal system to save their child - only to "fail" and have their child die. Each case is unique but one pattern is super common: Alcohol to marijuana to cocaine to xanax to heroin to death. Some kids/people can stop - some can not.
It's as simple as this:
Some kids are born with an "off switch" and they just instinctively know when to stop.
Some kids develop an "off switch" by watching a close friend die or through maturity.
Some kids are not born with an "off switch" and they die after going further and further across the line. A few of these kids may be lucky enough to have a near death experience that helps them develop the "off switch."
Thanks.
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