Rainbow Fentanyl May End Overdoses

(Written Sept 23rd 2022)
     The new multicolored, "rainbow fentanyl," coming in from Mexico might be a game changer, and may end the accidental fentanyl deaths in the United States. Up until now fentanyl has been stamped to look like any prescription medication that doctors prescribe. People ran out of their prescription, went to the streets, and someone sold them something that looks exactly like an oxycontin or a mood stabilizer, or anything that a prescription was written for, but the only active ingredient was fentanyl. No one was going to the streets trying to buy fentanyl, they were trying to buy more of whatever prescription they had run out of.
     So people who were used to taking a few pale blue oxycontin M30s might take a few identical looking pale blue counterfeit M30s and that much fentanyl would be too much and they would die, and the same goes true for any other counterfeit prescription medication, maybe the people were used to taking two pills at a time which is why they ran out. This was what caused more than 40,000 deaths in 2019, 57,000 deaths in 2020 and 71,000 deaths in 2021 in the United States.
     The new rainbow fentanyl comes in two forms, one looks like large blocks of chalk which appears problematic for dosing, and the other form (which is more common) is using the old oxycontin M30 tablet design with M on one side of the break line and 30 on the other side, but instead of just using pale blue to try to look like the real thing they come in a variety of colors, often in the same bag, so when somebody takes one of these tablets they should know that they are taking fentanyl, if they are unsure if they can handle it, they can always break it in half to start. 
     As long as there is a standardized dose being used and the only active ingredient is fentanyl rainbow fentanyl tablets may end the fentanyl overdose epidemic.
     We have lost over 168,000 Americans to fentanyl overdose poisonings in the last 3 years alone, mostly younger Americans that leave grieving parents behind. As rainbow fentanyl arrives we are losing more than 200 Americans a day on average to fentanyl overdose deaths, around twice the number of people killed every day in car accidents in the United States and by far the leading cause of death in the United States for people 15 to 44 years of age. Yet all the government says is that rainbow fentanyl is bad, that it looks like candy, and that it is targeting children.
     That's stupid, if anything it is targeting people that go to raves, and at least now if anyone wants to try one they should know that it is fentanyl, gone are the days of counterfeit prescription medications that could confuse and kill someone, rainbow fentanyl is just that, fentanyl, and simply knowing that it is fentanyl may end fentanyl overdose deaths entirely. 

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