Public officials and media outlets will sometimes overstate the effects of contraband substances. Fentanyl is deadly, no question. But it's not nerve gas deadly and not usually found in aerosol form. As contraband, it's mostly used to enhance the potency of other street drugs; most often heroin and fake oxycodone pills.
It doesn't really float around in the air. I don't know about this instance but I do know that if the substance was on one person others that come in contact with it can be effected. Fentanyl is absorbed through the skin very easily. I'm guessing the people who were affected touched the person or the stuff.
If it was on them or their skin it can be transferred . You are right it was probably carfentanil. A speck of that the size of a grain of salt is enough to kill ya.
Heroin addicts will push boundaries all the time. They have little regard for their well-being and all they care about is their next fix. The heavily addicted ones whose minds are also really fucked up will intentionally take more than necessary, because their typical "fix" no longer gets them high, it just keeps them from being sick --- but generally, their tolerance will continue to raise.
DC9428 - it is not stupid for a heroin dealer to cut their dope with fentanyl, it is a savvy business decision because all they care about is money. If they gave any shit at all about their junkie customers, they wouldn't be heroin dealers in the first place.
That is why heroin is so dangerous. It is so impure and an addict is ALWAYS taking a gamble, even if they buy from the same dealer each time, because that dealer also has a supplier who cut be cutting the heroin.
If heroin addicts cared about their well-being, there wouldn't be so many of them with hep-c and hiv which is only acquired via intravenous heroin use by sharing needles with someone. It could easily be avoided by simply not sharing needles.
The scary thing is, once word gets around that so-and-so OD'ed from the heroin they bought, tons of addcits will be lining up to buy from the same drug dealer that sold the heroin that caused the OD, because that's how twisted a dope fiend's mind is into wanting "the good stuff." And they know if someone OD'ed from it, if must be good shit it.
It's pretty fucked up.
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