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  • UK : Street Junkies Now Mixing Heroin and "Pentins"

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 13 08:15:17 2024
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.uk

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrl1pd8445o

    The misuse of a prescription drug widely used to treat anxiety,
    nerve pain and epilepsy has been linked with a sharp increase
    in deaths and prompted a government review into how it is
    controlled.

    Illicitly obtained pregabalin pills - typically costing
    just £1 each - have overtaken Spice as the "drug of choice"
    within Manchester's homeless population, the BBC has
    been told.

    “They’re taking it with heroin but it’s too powerful -
    I know loads of people who’ve died".

    . . .

    Mixing drugs is always a bad bet.

    Alas, knowing politicians, there will be a knee-jerk
    attempt to ultra-restrict/ban the '-pentins' even
    though there are huge number of people with very
    legit, very severe, nerve pain and really nothing
    else works. People have been known to kill themselves
    over such pain.

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Sep 13 08:11:47 2024
    XPost: "alt.politics.uk talk.politics.misc"

    On 9/13/24 05:15, [email protected] wrote:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrl1pd8445o

    The misuse of a prescription drug widely used to treat anxiety,
    nerve pain and epilepsy has been linked with a sharp increase
    in deaths and prompted a government review into how it is
    controlled.

    Illicitly obtained pregabalin pills - typically costing
    just £1 each - have overtaken Spice as the "drug of choice"
    within Manchester's homeless population, the BBC has
    been told.

    “They’re taking it with heroin but it’s too powerful -
    I know loads of people who’ve died".

    . . .

      Mixing drugs is always a bad bet.

      Alas, knowing politicians, there will be a knee-jerk
      attempt to ultra-restrict/ban the '-pentins' even
      though there are huge number of people with very
      legit, very severe, nerve pain and really nothing
      else works. People have been known to kill themselves
      over such pain.

    I can but agree that mixing drugs is very dangerous.
    Whether the drug is mixed as Fentanyl is used to provide
    a kick to the ? whatever by suppliers or by the misinformed
    and poorly educated user on the street.
    Alcohol and all the opiates are respiratory depressants
    that is they interfere with the reflexes that keep us breathing.
    Fentanyl is very good at depressing respiration and it does
    not take much of anything else to kill the user.
    Alcohol alone can depress respiration and provoke
    vomiting which if the person is not conscious can lead to
    death.

    Cannabis does not depress respiration nor do most of
    the so-called psychedelics.

    Keep on breathing.
    bliss

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