Comment by ulimn

2 days ago

But who buys these drugs with fentanyl and why? There might a link I'm missing, sorry! :)

Here’s reporting on the fentanyl crisis, covering who buys the drugs and why

https://youtu.be/925wmb-4Yr4

  • Oh my... Thank you for the link but I couldn't bear to watch it so I just read the summary. It hurts to watch these people.

    • Sorry, I should’ve provided a warning. It is sad that something so distressing is just the daily reality for thousands of Americans.

It's incorporated into pills that appear to be equivalent to prescribed opioids like Oxycodone. From buyer perspective it's just a cheap opioid pill.

It is typically laced into other drugs. A small amount of fentanyl is highly powerful, so if you mix it into heroine, you get a different buzz. But if you (a drug dealer, not a chemist) mess up and drop too much, then your customer will accidentally OD.

Tiny bits of fentanyl are added to a variety of recreational drugs used extensively by all kinds of people, rich and poor. They add it to cocaine, heroin, meth and even marijuana. They imitate oxy, percocet, vicodin, xanax and adderal using fent laced pills as well.

As much as 20% of Americans use these recreational drugs. Europeans on average use recreational drugs like half as much as Americans, maybe 10% use them.