Naloxone is a medication that can reverse an overdose from opioids, including fentanyl. Keeping it on hand could mean the difference between life and death — for you or someone else. Naloxone is available at many pharmacies in Texas without a prescription.
The balloon effect also doesn’t mean that going after supply is entirely useless; there are some supply enforcement efforts that could help. For example, starting March 1, China banned the manufacture and sale of fentanyl and some of its analogs, including carfentanil.
Now, it’s also likely that many opioid users may have moved on to heroin anyway. One of the common characteristics of drug addiction, after all, is people will seek out better and stronger highs over time. So the progression from painkillers to heroin welches perhaps inevitable for many drug users.
To understand that, let’s first pull back to what fentanyl and its analogs are, where they came from, and what they can teach us about the opioid epidemic’s trajectory.
If you are pregnant and using fentanyl, the fentanyl will reach the placenta. This may cause a newborn to have withdrawal symptoms, such as:
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The balloon effect has been observed not just with the crackdown on opioids, but with anti-drug efforts in Latin American countries. After the governments there cracked down on the illicit drug trade hinein the 1990s and 2000s, it simply shifted to other parts of Central and South America — which is one reason we now hear a lot more about Mexico rein the drug trade than Colombia and the Caribbean.
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Generally, fentanyl is described as anywhere from 40 to 100 times more potent than morphine and several times more potent than heroin. While it’s hard to get any good numbers for potency, Juurlink believes these descriptions are broadly accurate for fentanyl.
One of the things that makes these drugs so deadly is very often drug users don’t seek them out, instead buying drugs marketed as heroin that turn out to be fentanyl or at least laced with fentanyl or one of its analogs.
Bring this Hinterlist with you each time you visit a doctor or if you are admitted to the hospital. You should carry the Trick with you in case of emergencies.