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On a micro level, I live in the US and I don't know anyone who takes fentanyl. "Every corner" is likely journalistic hyperbole.

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Brown heroin doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all fent, they’re even cutting coke with fent which makes absolutely no sense to me.

It started with oxys until the gov cracked down then everyone went to brown heroin until fent arrived.

Report of Fentanyl in coke circa 2018.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-039-18.p...

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-be...

> makes absolutely no sense

It makes a lot of sense if you assume they're trying to kill everyone

I assume drug dealers like recurring revenue as much as a SaaS company does and it's hard to get recurring revenue from a dead person.

Last year here in Argentina we had a cocaine lot cut with carfentanil. IIRC the big drug dealers detected that something was wrong and decided to throw it away. But they had an internal miscommunication (or steal) and the drug was sell anyway. The result was 24 death and like 100 hospitalizations (and probably more unreported cases). Even the Security Minister of our biggest province said on TV something like:

paraphrasing> If you bought cocaine yesterday, please discard it. It may be the bad one.

One of the reports during the problem: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/argentina-tain...

One report one year later: https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-year-without-answe...

I bet you know people who take illegal drugs. And those drugs could easily have fentanyl in them, unknowing.

Maybe not on purpose. Fentanyl is being used to cut other recreational drugs like cocaine and MDMA.

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