2023-08-25 22:24:18
In this laboratory, the Anti-Narcotics Police managed to determine the dangerous mixture of fentanyl and heroin. | Photo: WEEK
Apparently, the doses would be being camouflaged in tusi. Some cases studied reported that the person, at the time of using ‘pink cocaine’, did not know that he was using fentanyl and found out when he was admitted to the emergency department with health complications.
The fentanyl doses would be being camouflaged in tusi. | Photo: National Police
“We have the information from the Soma Clinic with the first two official cases. We have the information of more cases that will be made known later. It is a concern that we saw coming. It is a harmful drug,” said Governor Aníbal Gaviria.
While other citizens who consciously injected the substance arrived at hospitals with manifestations of withdrawal syndrome. That is to say, they had effects on their organism when they stopped using it, following the strong addition that it produced.
Governor Aníbal Gaviria confirmed the first official cases of tusi poisoning. | Photo: DIEGO ANDRES ZULUAGA
Reference image of fentanyl. | Photo: The Colombian
He justified that the capital of Antioquia should be on alert because, as has happened in other parts of the world, when a case is detected it is because there are others on the way. Under this scenario, it would be interpreted that consumption is multiplying and the authorities must be prepared.
Fentanyl in Medellin
Fentanyl. Reference image. | Photo: Courtesy: National Police.
The consumption of fentanyl can put the consumer into a coma | Photo: Taken from: Unknown Facts
“The consumption of fentanyl can put the consumer into a coma, cause permanent damage to the brain and, in the worst case, death, since it is 50 times more powerful than heroin,” the institution said. which invited them to denounce the circulation of the opioid through the 123 emergency line.
The lethal dose of fentanyl is 1.2 milligrams, the amount of powder seen in the container. While that of cocaine is 1 gram, on average.
However, the Attorney General’s Office reported that, following confirming the first poisonings, a specialized group is following the trail of the people who are marketing the substance in the Aburrá Valley and evaluating whether there are criminal structures behind the feared freak.
The Prosecutor’s Office is looking at those who are selling fentanyl in Antioquia. | Photo: API
“A group of prosecutors, accompanied by the Police, are already carrying out investigative work to establish what structures we are talking regarding and who are the people who are bringing this type of medicine to the city,” said Yiri Milena Amado, sectional director of the entity of accusation in Medellin.
“It is the deadliest drug the United States has ever faced,” DEA Director Anne Milgram reiterated during a session of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance.
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram has expressed the danger of fentanyl use in the United States. | Photo: Getty Images/Tom Williams/Contributor
“Fentanyl is cheap to make, easy to disguise, and deadly to those who take it. Just two milligrams, the equivalent of a few grains of salt, can kill a person,” he explained. The worrying thing regarding synthetic drugs is that their “only limit” is “the chemicals you can buy” to make them, he added.
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