Frankenstein Opioids

Safety warning for everyone:

• On a Missouri February night, 21-year-old college student Blake Barklage was found unresponsive by his mother. She had Narcan on hand and used it immediately. 

  Then again. 

  And again. 

  Seven doses later, Blaek still wasn’t breathing. Later, toxicology revealed a synthetic opioid was in his system that's up to 43 times stronger than fentanyl: Nitazene.

Already ravaging Europe, it's crossing the US southern border and is just now being linked to potentially hundreds of deaths. No one had been testing for it specifically....until the Narcan started failing.

We remember when the fentanyl crisis began, skin absorption was the big warning for law enforcement. We would assume this is still an issue? Australia has begun prosecutions for Nitazene vapes, so this stuff is easily transmitted between mediums.

Philadelphia has had limited success with Narcan doses, then emergency medical treatment, followed by more Narcan since the drug seems to overwhelm the Naloxone doses. 

Be aware of what's out there.