US NY: Potent Synthetic Drug Found Locally
Date: Friday, July 21 @ 14:39:31 EST
Topic: Marijuana in the United States
POTENT SYNTHETIC DRUG FOUND LOCALLY
Fentanyl, a potent synthetic drug similar to morphine, has reached Dutchess County. It is thought to be as much as 200 times as potent as morphine.
The county Department of Health warned local hospital emergency rooms recently to be on alert, because fatal overdoses are common among heroin users lured by the promise of an intense high. Government agencies and nonprofit groups that work are also trying to get the word out on the street.
The Dutchess County medical examiner recently received toxicology results indicating that a man with a history of drug abuse and hepatitis C had the drug in his blood stream when he was found dead in his home.
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n948/a07.html
Newshawk: Beth
Webpage: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060718/NEWS01/60718011/100
Pubdate: Tue, 18 Jul 2006
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
Copyright: 2006 Poughkeepsie Journal
Contact: jpenney@poughkee.gannett.com
Website: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1224
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?143 (Hepatitis)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
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