Lucio R Borderland Beat from Arizona Daily Star
A strong synthetic
opioid made by the Sinaloa cartel is increasingly making its way through
Arizona, and officials fear a rise in drug-related deaths will follow.
The strongest opioid
available in medical treatment, pharmaceutical fentanyl, is used to treat
severe pain and is usually administered through a patch. The euphoria-inducing
drug is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent
than morphine.
Over the last couple of
years, more than 700 people have died of fentanyl abuse in the United States,
but the real number is likely higher because many state labs and coroner’s
offices do not routinely test for fentanyl. Most deaths are attributed to the
illegally manufactured version of the drug.
Since 2015, law
enforcement agencies in Arizona have made at least five seizures of fentanyl —
ranging from 4 ounces to 16 pounds — found inside stash houses and vehicles.
“Fentanyl can put
people to sleep to the point they can stop breathing,” said Greg Hess,
chief medical examiner in Pima County. “Because fentanyl is more potent, the
window or margin of error might be less for someone not as experienced.”
Only a small amount is
needed of the illegal powder fentanyl cartels make to mix with heroin to make
it stronger. Nationwide, persons dying from fentanyl are mostly heroin users
exposed to fentanyl without knowing it.
There is no state data
on fentanyl-related deaths, but the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner
reported an increase from seven overdose deaths where fentanyl was listed as a
contributing factor in 2014 to 17 last year.
The numbers include all
overdose cases from Cochise, Santa Cruz and Pinal counties and additional cases
from eight other counties.
Another report from today (Tuesday) also about a fentanyl mix:
Another report from today (Tuesday) also about a fentanyl mix:
Nearly 30 people have
overdosed and six people have died in less than a week in Sacramento,
California after using a tainted form of a narcotic painkiller being sold on
that city's streets.
A batch of the opiate
Norco being sold in the California capital appears to have been laced with
fentanyl, an opiate that is roughly 100 times more potent than heroin,
according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Sacramento County
Division of Public Health reported on Tuesday that the drug has caused at least
28 overdoes and six deaths since March 23.
usa keep buying please . Mexicans like your money .
ReplyDeleteMexicans live in the U.S. too. They buy it too. Dumbass
DeleteCuz they keep voting shitty presidents in office in Mexico, further exploiting teh country. Maybe one day the REAL PROUD Mexicans, who are NOT running to other countries will stand, fight and change their beautiful country. The good people of Mexico deserve better than this.
DeleteFolks! @3:11 does not speak for all mexicans. If he wasn't being sarcastic, this mexican thinks he's a dumbass
Deleteor maybe REAL PROUD americans will do something about their demand for illegal drugs and stop shifting the blame to the supply. the good ppl of both countries deserve better than this.
Delete6:20 may e on the next town hall you go and ask why the US keeps supplying money and weapons to the failed and failing mexican government, and how does that "policy" makes things good for the mexicans or for the US?.
Deletekeep legalizing drugs pendejos. the more acceptable drugs become, the braver people become and try things watch and talk to your kids. For those who throw stones. remember Karma is a bitch and it can happen to ANYONE
DeleteWoe great news!!! Please import that to all the states. It would be nice to see all the addicts overdose. Bring some to downtown Los Angeles, we can use some sidewalk space.
DeleteCrappy presidents in the us too
DeleteYou guys are alright. We got the two worst leaders ever. One sells guys to the cartel and other lets it happen. About the Mexicans staying and clean up the country, sorry but that would take a revolution.
Deletethere are just as many, if not more Mexicans addicted to heroin than there are whiteys...if you don't believe me go watch the patrons at a methadone clinic
Deleteif we keep legalizing drugs then the stigma or the danger will go away and then drugs will become boring.. and then the attraction will wane and then we will have new issues, oh wait you are too scared for change
DeleteDecriminalization of all drugs works. Proof is they give addictsome in Holland pure free dope and that generation will get old and die. Results, almost all h off streets as anyone who knowshould their history, he was everywhere, now they are flooded with coke but coke ain't as bad as he.
DeletePortugal has dramatically reduced addiction with Decriminalization.
Now I rather all out legal so people could get pure stuff from government and not fent.
To the guy wishing all addicts die, I pray you experience close friends or family you had no clue ending up full blown junkie. What a horrible attitude. Have some compassion.
if im not mistaken just alone here in camden nj it killed at least over 150 through out the whole south jersey..but camden nj we first cut the heroin with perc 30 in the early 2000 then i went to prision in 2002 untill 2008 for heroin distrubition and in 05 06 is when they started cutting it up with fentanyl..they hadnt mastered on cutting it..so they would die from respitory problems the addicts,now they mastered the game of cutting it with the heroin..anf its making millions in my city...damn lol let me find out we a small city was more years advanced then the sinaloa cartel they doing it now...even tho the tristate ny philly and jersey we get our drugs from the sinaloa cartel juarez cartel beltran leyva cartel...but we fuck with sinaloa cartel distrubitors...
ReplyDeleteSinaloa isn't cutting it like that it's the first level distributors in the USA that are the guys who get the kilos first
DeleteThe hardest thing in the world is 'figuering' where it comes from, I guess...
Delete--many of the dead are not exactly sharp addicts, they are new, unskilled and there because of their "friends" trying to get their to lunch money...
--that is where the pushers need to get cogidos...
--no deals to minimize sentences for "pleading guilty" and some centavos...
There has been 5 dead confirmed & 25 overdose in sancramento ca, so far. They lace that shit to pills.
ReplyDelete-El Cuate De Mazatlan
Job security for the ATF n DEA hahahahah
ReplyDeleteKeep putting that poison in your system kids, you're only proving to the world that ever so simple supply and demand economy....
ReplyDelete... there's a lot of misinfo about why so many people abuse these drugs, remember they're PAINKILLERS and it's natural for humans to feel pain. nobody gives a shit about the "simple supply and demand economy" of other poisons like junkfood, crop-spraying, pollution, fluoride, mobile phone radiation, etc.?
Delete509 am - goddamn 509 am? There has to be something better to do at that time, like not be on the Internet and interact with real people in real life. Anyways you sound like the parent or family member of a junkie, why don't you pull your head out of your ass and realize I was simply pointing out that the main reason the shit exists is because............. You guessed it, there's someone stupid enough to put it in their system. Don't get butt hurt homie. I realize there's people who get addicted to pain killers, what the fuck is that to me? You act like the goddamn market isn't saturated by young stupid people without the sufficient brains enough to realize they are fucking themselves for life doing that shit.
DeleteIgnorant mf, you have zero clue about addiction and substance use/abuse. If it catches up to people like Rush Limbaugh who is smart enough to build the biggest radio empire in the world, it can catch up to anyone. Has absolutely zero to do with intelligence.
DeleteSinaloa masters of the cut
ReplyDeleteCDS controls the plazas of Agua prieta, nogales, sonoyta, San luis, and mexicali,and all remote points in between these areas.
DeleteThere is going to be people screaming "he needs some milk" on every block lmao
ReplyDeleteI tried fentanyl ONCE and ONCE only from a dr! No fucking way! Never again! Fentanyl by itself made me puke and kept me up all night like a fucking tweaker! I never used it again after that! These folks is crazy as hell for using it let alone mixing it with heroin!!:(
ReplyDeleteAnother words you could say junkies are dying to use it.
ReplyDeleteNot a good drug for drug traffickers to push if they are causing they're source of income (clients) to die.
Pima County and its corrupt Sheriff Chris Nanos deserves this influx of drugs into his county. That fucker overspends on bullshit but when caught he blames President Obama for his departments inadequacies. Typical Ring Wing move. When all fails blame the President. Do your job you POS instead of blaming everyone else.
ReplyDeleteIf your gov wanted to stop ilegal immigration they would, it's the "most" powerful country in the world.. They got drones and shit.. It's up to you to figure out why they don't. Idiot! I bet you think your really smary, ha?
Delete@ 8:04 Wish the cartels would do us all a favor and sell their drugs uncut so that all the drug users in this country would overdose and die also. I for one don't care about stupid drug users but this would probably mean half the U.S. would be wiped out including a fair amount of children under 16 years of age and possibly as young as 8 or younger.
Delete8:04 One little hit, and mexicans turn into The Flash, no border patrol is gonna catch them "crossing illegally".
Delete--Then again, private prisons for profit need their prisons full and producing, the US government needs to get their money to the Corporate Welfare Queens regularly and on time, their lobby money depends on it...
5:09 not only are you an idiot, but you lack basic human compassion. Who the fuck would wish death on people for doing something that causes no harm to anyone but themselves? Why don't you wish alcohol manufacturers add antifreeze to their products to kill anyone who dares ingest an intoxicant?
Deletestrange business plan, to kill your users. Don't quite get it.
ReplyDeleteThis will be controversial but let's just say I have heard from reliable sources that some major political and law enforcement in certain areas of let's say Arizona is on the payroll of CDS. I'm not just talking about border patrol. This comment relates to the previous post.
ReplyDeleteThat shit is up here in Tacoma too...Killing junkies all the time and all over Washington. Sinaloans are doing well up here.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the crack heads from the Hilltop are the only ones getting affected
DeleteSinaloa still putting out garbage like usual ..quality not quantity..
ReplyDeleteAs someone who was getting pure fent powder (fent base and fent citrate salt) I will say this - that shit don't play. I am surprised it didn't kill me. But damn nothing can touch it. No other opiate would even nod me once I got on fent.
ReplyDeleteWhoever is involved with this should do the right thing and sell the pure so there's no cuts and hot spots
Anyone here know if they ever cut tar with fentanyl
ReplyDeletebetter to cut chiva with fentanyl than polish shoe...
DeleteNope nuts, I want my chiva uncut, she is too short already.
DeleteI guessed Cds cant be stop got dam it those fucking sinaloas son cabrones my respects to them from Chiraq nigga , keep up the good work bb
ReplyDeleteThank you Chiraq
DeleteBusiness 101...Supply and demand...no one is better at anticipating changes in America's drug markets and capitalising than those darn Sinaloenses...that is the reason they are a cut above the rest...their business acumen is unmatched...their reach is world wide...Free Chapo...
ReplyDeleteThis is really bad. Now days drugs are so sketchy. Stay away from drugs kids it's not worth it. Buy a badass car or save it but don't waste your money on shit.
ReplyDeletelay off the crack . Smoke the Herb & put a Smile on your face :)
DeleteCartels are slow. Fentanyl was here 15 years ago.
ReplyDeleteNo one ever said the cartels were smart. Most are just bandwagon drug dealers who use others folks techniques and act like they started the trends.
DeleteIf cartels are slow, it is because like Moiseis they have to wait for the orders from above, what to sell, to whom, how much, for how much, etc etc.etc...
Delete--and the bank accounts to go to...
hey @2:40AM where is "here"..where Fentanyl was used in cuts fifteen years ago? What was cut with it?
Deletename of the city?
Lmao the cartels have to wait on orders from above? In America? You watch to much tv. If anyone was waiting on an order it's because they are just a worker. And the cartel I mean the real cartel not just someone that has family in it. The cartel is in Mexico a third world country, the cartel can never make it in America,
DeleteHere in manatee county fl we have had a mass amount of deaths from heroin cut with fentanyl. If u look it up u will find that in our northern neighbor st pete fl has kno had a problem with fake xanax cut with fentanyl that has killed ppl
ReplyDeleteFreaking white people and their drugs......
ReplyDeleteYes and I am White you are right
Delete@3:22 Freaking racists and their comments. Drugs don't discriminate buttercup. - El Sol Perdido
Delete11:42
DeleteAgreed.
You can have white skin and be Asian .
You may mean curropt ass hat politicians allowing this junk on the street.
You know there are whole society and culture through out the world that DO NOT use drugs and have HARD time sentences and even death if caught using / distributing ?
These aren't 3rd world countries and some are point is its up to the individual to not do them and up to the politicians to not encourage or turn a blind eye to the problem.
Guess what, practicing RACISM while preaching against it as gets done all over the US, is many people's favorite cup of tea.
Delete--Don't be "racist" and enrage "el sol"
3:38 let the lost speak, see he has one fan...
DeleteEverybody says a little Mary Jane won't hurt u. Until ur kids dies of a overdose of Meth.
ReplyDeleteSo you are saying Cannabis is a gateway drug. I have never done a drug in my life. I been around them plenty. Comes down to will power, parenting, and having a balance lifestyle.
DeleteComing off coke n h after many years I smoke some phat weed before bed and next morning I'm right as rain. Yeah I know, good for me, right?
Deletewho overdoses on meth?!?!?! Pussies!!!!
Delete@11:45 AM I wish it was that cut and dried, it is not, "will power, parenting and having a balanced lifestyle" may tilt the odds in a favorable direction, but the significant percentage of those who came from that vantage point to the dark side, tells a different story.
DeleteWe just buried a joven last week, had all the above you named, he was HS Valedictorian, began medical school direct from HS, brilliant, loved, blessed with everything one would have on a wish list of life.
yet, it happened.
Generalizations are not only short sided, they are a gross waste of effort and thought.
Killing him softly chivis...putting the poster in his place.
DeleteEveryone knows of a "good family" that has suffered when addiction creeps into their lives.
I am sorry for your loss
WOW What dopeheads will do to end their lives.
ReplyDeleteThe idea is not "ending" anybody's life, just escaping for a little while...
Delete@10:27 Why don't you try learning something constructive in life? Or pick up a hobby that doesn't require you to inject any sort of drug into your body. - El Sol Perdido
Delete1:15 I don't do any drugs, and never did, maybe "las tres" a looong time ago, but I know my people, you know?
DeleteEl Sol Perdido- I graduated from the best public university in the US with honors, have a well-paying white collar job, and have struggled with opioid addiction for years. So fuck off with your "learn something constructive" argument. It is ignorant beyond belief.
Delete@6:13 You're a classic narcissist. Quick 2 show off your academic,huh? But even with all of that intellect you're still a SLAVE. What a genius. - El Sol Perdido
DeleteGood job,let the heroin junkies die.They have one of the highest relapse rates and costing a lot of health care over costs. Don't do heroin and you won't have to play Russian roulette with your life. I have zero sympathy for junkies.Don't care if they are family,friends,ect.
ReplyDeleteagree
DeleteIt's not just that one drug. Last year in my town the dealers were cutting it with everything. Xtc. Coke. Meth. Any drug they can put it into to make u get high they'll put it in.. think I'll stick to mushrooms weed and toads! Made in a lab no thanks bra!
DeleteOne day I hope society will work out why there's this massive demand for narcotics. At the end of the day people have free will to get high and some will choose to. It's like that.
Delete4:09 ...and Toads, CANADIANA! Wasn't the frog legs enough?
Delete10:20- Do you feel the same way about alcoholics? If we decriminalized possession/use and offered treatment, addiction and its associated financial and health costs would plummet. But ignorant people like you would never want that to happen.
DeleteMexican military court acquits 6 of 7 in army slayings (Tlatlaya):
ReplyDeletehttp://bigstory.ap.org/article/f47e9f1f17cd4a20b8f9dfc058adc9e0/mexican-military-court-acquits-6-7-army-slayings
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DeleteThere are several types of fentanyl. Much stonger than heroin (some forms are said to be 2,000 times stronger than diacetylmorphine) and ~40 years ago there was an endemic spike in use by pharmacists as it was virtually undetectable in urine analysis. I actually remember an addict who over dosed and died in ~1974 of out of New Mexico but living in the Bay Area. Very popular and not a huge risk taker but got blind sided by this fentanyl. In the early 70's fentanyl was often called 'china white' on the Left Coast and it was very intermittent.
ReplyDeleteHeroin use is idiotic. All I need to reach extasis is a good piece of ass and there is plenty in this world. As I get old I want to keep my body in great shape so I can enjoy sex longer. I don't want to destroy my pinga and my entire body injecting that crap. Who wants his cats eating his body after an overdose?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree with you more!
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