Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
More than one thousand people died recently of overdoses from heroin cut with fentanyl. Fentanyl is used after surgery or to treat severe pain. It is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine and can be deadly when abused.
The deaths began early this year in the mid-Atlantic states before spreading to the Midwest, with many deaths in Chicago and Detroit.
Because people can unknowingly purchase heroin that is cut with fentanyl and not adjust the amount heroin accordingly, this abuse trend is particularly dangerous. There have been reports of deaths caused by people “eating” fentanyl patches.