FL - Daniel, 32, & Heather Kelsey, 30, found dead, Volusia County, 31 Dec 2016

[Bird of Paradise]

Interesting article on fentanyl - BBM

Unfortunately, the drug is also used illegally and it’s easier to produce than heroin, according to the Wall Street Journal. Drug dealers tend to prefer selling Fentanyl because the high doesn’t last as long as heroin’s. All of this has contributed to Fentanyl being a growing cause of overdose deaths.

http://heavy.com/entertainment/2016...actiq-duragesic-opioid-symptoms-side-effects/

 

[kat913]

So very sad to hear the final results...happens to many people who leave bewildered children behind. So very sorry...

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Accidental fentanyl overdose http://cbs12.com/news/local/autopsy-parents-died-of-fentanyl-od-with-kids-in-car-06-10-2017


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Well, I had to look it up.
Link to Wikipedia on fentanyl-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Why would they take fentanyl while driving on the highway?

I can only think an addict will take whatever is available.
With no thoughts beyond getting high.

 

[kat913]

Probably used to the dose but not expecting the potency and got each other out to walk around, get air and expired. Actually have to give them some parenting credit for having children buckled, pulled over and flashers on. Addicts come from all walks of life...the potency is what kills them quickly...not expecting it. Narcan needs to be handy!

 

[Elainera]

Very sad. I hope the kids are doing alright.

 

[MsArk]

Another senseless causality of the opioid epidemic our nation is facing. My heart goes out to the children and both families.


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[Bently]

The Macon Georgia area has been in the media in the last week. Iirc.. six people have died and dozens have been overdosed because of fentanyl and street drugs that were unexpectedly mixed and sold as percocet.

At this time I don't have the opportunity to research to post the link here but somebody else probably can.

Fentanyl overdose poisoning, as they are calling it, is really in the news in Macon Georgia.

 

[Harmony 2]

I am very naive when it comes to drugs but according to this article it is the same drug that killed Prince.

It is so potent that when law enforcement goes in to seize it, officers have to wear level A hazmat suits, the highest protection level made, the same kind of suits health care workers use to avoid contamination by the deadly Ebola virus.

"Just micrograms can make a difference between life and death. It's that serious," said DEA Special Agent John Martin, who is based in San Francisco. An amount the size of a few grains of sand of fentanyl can kill you. "All you have to do is touch it. It can be absorbed through the skin and the eyes."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/health/fentanyl-new-heroin-deadlier/index.html

 

[cujenn81]

Fentanyl is crazy dangerous. It's a big reason for the increasing rise in death by opiate overdose. Dealers are using it, or mixing it with other drugs, and selling it to people who believe they're buying pure heroin. Those users are ODing because Fentanyl is stronger than heroin. So when a user takes what would be considered a typical dose of heroin for them, it ends up being deadly.

I watched an episode of True Life on MTV a longggggg time ago and a girl prescribed Fentanyl patches by her doctor got so addicted to them that she would cut the patches open and drink the liquid straight from the patch. I honestly didn't know how she was still alive. It seemed so insane to me... that someone would do that. This was before most people knew what Fentanyl was (I didn't know at the time either) and I think back to that episode now and wonder if that girl had any idea how incredibly dangerous that was for her to do.


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[Hiandmighty]

My drug addict former neighbor used to hit my DH up for Actiq fentanyl lollipops. (Of course he said no...)

Those are for cancer patients:

 

[Elise]

This whole fentanyl thing is really scary. It's being added not only to heroin, but cocaine as well. Cocaine users aren't even aiming for that type of high, and don't really have a tolerance for it. It's easy for people to say, "Oh well, then don't do drugs," but the fact is, there are a lot of people that are simply recreational users, looking to have fun for the night. It's also being added to pressed pills (opiates and benzos, like Xanax), and sold as actual pills from a pharmacy when they were actually made at some person's house.

This couple probably weren't just recreational users, but they may not have known whatever they were taking contained fentanyl. I'm generally a live and let live kind of person, but whether this couple knew they were taking fentanyl or not, they shouldn't have taken anything at all with their kids in the car, or even just with them around. As with all ODs, I personally think it's sad they died, but I feel so awful for their kids. I'm just glad the driver didn't pass out as they were driving.

I'm not here to judge or tell anyone how to live their lives, but if you or anyone you know happens to be a recreational user of any substance, please be careful. Heroin has always been risky, but things that were once seen as generally "safe" may now contain something that can kill you with one pill, line, bump, whatever.

 

[dandydogs]

So sad to think people dies this way. I feel pity to the young ones left behind.

 

[Bently]

On Florida news tonight- K-9 units now being supplied with Natcan for the animals.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

'We'll spend the rest of our lives raising kids because of drugs': Grandparents speak out about having to care for three young boys after their parents overdosed behind the wheel of their car with the kids in the back

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-boys-parents-die-overdose.html#ixzz4oNKIyKrS

 

[cvaldez1975]

i think they realized that they took bunk stuff. they are lucky they were able to pull over fast before wrecking.