'The Best High They've Ever Had'

[UpAllNiteOCXTC]

Has anyone heard of this before? Unfortunately swim was unable to obtain the entire article (my apologies) but figured at least someone here would be familiar with this.


Street users call it drop dead, executioner, flat-liner, the exorcist, Al Capone, fefe, Teflon and diesel. Cops know it as a deadly mix of heroin and fentanyl, an anesthetic and painkiller far more potent than morphine. For cancer patients racked with pain, legally prescribed fentanyl can be a godsend. But for junkies, the fentanyl-heroin cocktail has become the hot new high, as lethal as it is alluring. It is being blamed for hundreds of deaths this year in big cities in the Midwest and Northeast. In Wayne County, Mich., home to Detroit, there have been 50 deaths in just the past two weeks, including 19 in one deadly day in May.

The problem is that cops don't know who is spreading the killer junk on the streets. It might be just one big bad batch that's been widely distributed, or it could be coming from multiple sources, say law-enforcement officials, who first began noticing a spike in fentanyl-heroin overdoses in November. One promising new lead came ...

[Alfa]

The writer of the article and the chief editor of this paper should be fired and banned from ever writing again, unless the rest of the article makes up for this load of crap.

[ihavequestions]

SWIM is confused. does the article state that users are mixing the two? or is it stating that dealers are mixing the two without the buyers knowing resulting in deaths?

cause if it the latter than swim would assume that it is a scare tactic and pretty much BS.

but if it IS that users ar mixing thw two and are dying the only things that comes to mind is "darwin wins". cause thats just a obvious bad mix.

[OhCasey]

For years people have bought heroin mixed with fentanyl. Its not the mix thats bad its the fact that people arent familar with fentanyl and its alot stronger in most cases then heroin.