Cops Hospitalized After Exposure To Unknown Substance At Strip Club

Anyone notice if Stormy Davis was in the area?

The problem with fentanyl, of course, is that it is a synthetic opioid which is made in a lab, including converted pigsties in China where most of the illegal fentanyl comes from. Since it's dirt cheap and super powerful it is mixed with real heroin (made from poppies). Unlike pure fentanyl made in real labs, the Chinese fentanyl is liable to be made with just about anything and in various strengths. And, of course, it is not always uniformly mixed by local drug dealers and some has more fentanyl than is safe. That's why they have these overdoses. Anyway, even if you somehow shut off fentanyl from China, other Countries or people right here in the US are bound to make it. Probably they already do. The guy who invented fentanyl in 1960 was Paul Janssen in Belgium. He also invented carfentanil, a similar synthetic opioid, as an elephant tranquilizer, which is about 100 times stronger that fentanyl. That can also, and has been, made in a pigsty. Jenssen, a genius, also invented haloperidol (trademarked as Haldol) in 1958. It was the second big anti-psychotic invented after Thorazine in 1950. Not surprisingly, hardly anyone abuses Haldol, or even wants to take it as it doesn't make them high and turns them into a passive zombie. Schizophrenics and psychotics get high and out of control by not taking their meds. Hospital emergency departments often use a B-52 shot (5mg Haldol + 2mg Ativan, a tranquilizer) to subdue out of control patients.

To all on this thread...and especially to HCD; HCD is a troll who just hangs out on this site to stick his finger in your eye. He's just here to satisfy some egotistical malfunction in his sad life. Typical bombastic progressive saying outrageous things to get a response. The more you respond, the worse he gets. Watch now, he's got to figure a way to attack this post...or ignore the temptation to do so. What say you HCD?

@Hi_estComnDenomn actually I read the other day that our generation - the so called "Y" or "millennials" is full of entitlement and are big whiny babies. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. As for the opioid crisis - something much more interesting and relevant than your fight with @JBo (who's story I really admire) - as a person with chronic pain who lives in the Midwest (South-Central to be accurate) I can tell you that the crack downs on drs and pharmacies is doing little to curb the deaths (usually by fentanyl overdose) and is causing those with legitimate issues and above-board histories of use an awful time. Here in Oklahoma we've passed medical marijuana law which should definitely help (although since I'm a cop's wife I'll be screwed there). Hopefully easing the war on MJ will have a direct effect on reducing the amount of fentanyl abused in our state. It will be interesting to find out.

@JBo Dredge*

And not everyone is cut out for military. And virtually no job will cover for college alone nowadays.

And again, good for you personally, it's good to see you have progressive ideas. But the vast majority of you are a giant societal drag, and don't share your ideas about energy or college or many other important issues that you won't be alive long enough to live through the repercussions.

No, I don't believe you. My generation is not a "durge". You said my generation is a cancer and we should die. As far as competing in the 21st century...my generation and previous generations, in general, is what helped you get to the 21st century.

I support renewable energy. I drive a hybrid vehicle and have solar panels at my home. I like renewable energy but I'm not a fan of land based wind power. Nuclear energy, while not renewable, is an option that is efficient if handled correctly with safeguards. The main problem with spent nuclear fuel is that it's...spent. It's gotta go somewhere and sooner or later we'll have to transition to renewable energy.

I believe that all generations should be able to go to college and not incur mountains of debt. They can do what I did...join the military and then use the GI bill (or whatever it's called today) to get started. While that didn't come close to covering my school expenses back in the day, working while going to school and living like a pauper made up the shortfall.

@JBo Great story individually. But your generation in general is a durge to society and one of the few things holding this country back from competing in the 21st century. Don't believe me?

What is your stance on coal and fuel, versus much, much more renewable resources like solar, wind, and nuclear?

You say you paid your own way through college. Do you believe Gen Y and Gen Z should be able to do that today without incurring tens of thousands in debt?

I don't know why you presume to think of me as a cancerous boomer that's had it so easy...I started work on my family's farm stringing tobacco and skinning timber at 8 years old, then as a paperboy at age 12 for my "second" job. My first job that paid me by check was as a busboy...83¢ per hour.

I started with nothing except a work hard ethic and a desire to get the best education possible. I paid for my college education and continued to work for the next half dozen decades. I'm financially secure, I earned it, I share it and I still have the callouses on my hands.

Each generation tries to make life easier for the next generation. The Depression Era parents tried to make life a little easier for their children, the Greatest Generation, and so on up the line. I didn't want my children to have to string tobacco or go hunting in order to put food on the table if they wanted to eat each day.

Just remember that someone, somewhere has made your life a little easier than it was for them or their generation or generations before them. A silent "thank you might be in order for someone in your genealogical time line instead of wishing entire generations would die.

As for jailing drug abusers, you can't build enough prisons to house everyone in this country that abuses drugs. The war on drugs doesn't work. New thinking is needed and it will have to start at the family level.

I've spouted off enough, I'm tired. Bye.

@JBo You would have a point on drugs if those that were locked up decades ago for using were let out en masse. Drugs are illegal, and people aren't going to jail for them. They should be, in droves.

@JBo The Silent Generation were useless Yes Men. But at least they tried to make things better for future generations.

The Greatest Generation,however, was amazing, and were a big reason the US had a win streak for decades.

In fact, they are the reason snowflake Baby Boomers had it so easy growing up. And because you had it so easy, you expect everyone is having it just as easy. Take and cry, cry and take. Never considering the generations that follow you.