He fentanyl kill some 150 people a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is something that worries and a lot in USA, where 70,000 people die each year from this addiction. Your president, Joe Biden, has recently shown its commitment to detecting the production, sale and trafficking of this powerful analgesic on the border with Mexico. proposes to inspect more packages in search of drugs and impose heavy penalties.
“Let’s launch a great effort to stop the production, sale and fentanyl traffickingwith more drug detection machines to inspect the cargo and stop the pills and powder at the border,” he said in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. In the box of the first lady, Jill Biden, was Doug Griffinwho lost her 20-year-old daughter, Courtney, to a fentanyl overdose in 2014.
It is not an isolated case by any means. Fentanyl is to blame for increase in overdose deathsa figure that triggered the confinement Arman Maddela, a rehabbing opioid addict, said this summer he knew about seven or eight people who had died of fentanyl overdoses in recent months. What does this substance consist of and why is it so dangerous?
What is fentanyl
In addition to one illegal drugfentanyl is a drug that is prescribed to patients with severe pain, especially after a surgical operation. It is used to treat diseases such as cancer and can be administered with a syringe, as well as through a patch or pills.
When trafficked it has a very different format. It is usually sold in powdered form, poured into drops, in containers of eye drops, nasal sprays or in pills, they point out from the US institution National Institute on Drug Abuse. One of the problems with this illegal substance is that it is often mixed with other drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMAbecause a small amount causes a strong stone for little money but dangerous.
effects of fentanyl
He fentanyl acts on our brain just like heroin and morphine. That is, on the areas that control pain and emotions. This makes it difficult, once the brain has become used to the drug, to feel pleasure with anything other than the drug. And this is followed by a series of effects, collected by the expert source:
- extreme happiness
- lethargy
- nausea
- confusion
- constipation
- sedation
- trouble breathing
- unconsciousness
In case of overdose, fentanyl can cause hypoxia, a lack of oxygen to the brain, and with it a coma wave death.
Source: Lasexta
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