Fentanyl-Laced Pills Can Kill You. Here’s How to Protect Yourself
Fentanyl is the kind of drug that has similar effects to that of morphine or heroin but is considered significantly more powerful than these drugs. This means that a tiny dose can have dangerous effects on you. Bryan Kuhn, who is a pharmacist and a poison education specialist at the Banner University Medical Center Phoenix has compared it to a baker who uses all-purpose flour to make cookies. Suppose there is a flour substitute available, and you are able to make as many cookies with just an ounce of this new flour substitute as you could with a pound of your regular flour. So, what is easier? Using the regular pound of flour or just an ounce of flour? “That’s what we see with fentanyl,” said Dr. Kuhn. “The drug cartels understand it takes a pound of heroin to make 1,000 tablets. They only need an ounce of fentanyl to take 1,000 tablets, and it’s cost-beneficial for them to do it.” It becomes relatively easy to get fentanyl or even the components to make it, and it is also e...