(Seattle)King County: 685 fentanyl overdoses in 2022 compared to 3 in 2015

That is a parabolic increase. Good lord

It's why I worry about eating at restaurants sometimes, never know who spilled something on their shirt or whatever.

Local news crew here in Spokane did a story on fentanyl and had an interview at a fire station and they said they now spend most of their shift going from fentanyl OD to fentanyl OD.

I don't completely understand the fentanyl thing...why would you intentionally poison/kill your customer base, even for increased profits ... that won't work longterm.

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I don't completely understand the fentanyl thing...why would you intentionally poison/kill your customer base, even for increased profits ... that won't work longterm.

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A 38 year old kid, I say kid because I knew him when he little, died of a fentanyl overdose recently. He had been off of drugs for awhile and apparently picked up at what he was used to ingesting. It was too much.

We can quit drinking alcohol for awhile and we can survive a bad hangover. But those drugs can kill us. I’ve heard of it around here too many times.

At least the Gulf cartel apologized after Americans are kidnapped and killed in Mexico.

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why would you intentionally poison/kill your customer base, even for increased profits ... that won't work longterm.

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Fentanyl is incredibly potent, cheap, and addicting. It’s used to cut a variety of drugs and things like Narcan don’t work for ODs. Also, drug addicts are mentally broken so they chase the high and when you chase a high like Fentanyl in the same way you always did with heroin or cocaine you just end up dead instead of in a hospital

Thanks to America basically decriminalizing open drug communities in major cities there’s no shortage of addicts and junkies for them to keep pushing fentanyl into.

We desperately need to get a grip on mental health, addiction counseling, and rehabilitation in this country and stop pretending every homeless person is some kind of innocent victim of capitalism or whatever stupid shite people keep saying.

Despite what the media and communists will tell you, Homeless people are mentally ill drug addicts desperately in need of help not innocent moms and dads down on their luck because of conservative tax and business policies and the last thing they need is free money and no consequences.

I have known several people that have died of ODs in the past 5-7 years. They were mostly regular people, not hardened criminals.

You pays you money and you takes you chances.