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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by nradov on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:51AM (#35368153)
Many young people are dying of accidental fentanyl poisoning because they get counterfeit sleeping pills or whatever from their friends. Sure we should absolutely reduce the factors that cause people to turn to drugs. But some people are always going to have insomnia. Some people are always going to want to alter their mental state.

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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by herbst on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:22AM (#35368798)
I've taken drugs my whole adult live and never witnessed a faulty product except badly grown weed.

There are rules for safe drug use. There are test kits (today, back then they were expensive) and most countries gladly have drug checking places as well.

The issue aren't the drugs but the culture and knowledge around it.

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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by shapefrog on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:07AM (#35370376)
15 year olds are not going to go to some narc in a suit to check if the smart pills they bought on tiktok are legit or not.
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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by herbst on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:18AM (#35383335)
Not sure how drug checkings looks where you are but this is exactly what 15yo me and his peers did.
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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by nradov on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:54PM (#35375701)
Your personal experience is meaningless. Mexican drug cartels are literally producing faulty product today. Watch the interview that I linked above. Counterfeit prescription pills randomly contain fatal doses of fentanyl due to poor quality control.

There is no "culture" here. It's just some kid getting a pill from a friend at school. They're not going to check it for safety.

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