Investigators say six college students were rushed to the hospital after ingesting fentanyl-laced cocaine. WTVJ’s Julia Bagg reports.
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Don’t blame the drug dealers
It is Ure choice it is Free Will
Ure Life
If you’re an addict and using, it’s not free will. You are powerless over the illness.
@Jerry H. thanks but I’m not lol 😂
always florida…
These kids is just outrageous they know that this stuff is not good and they taking it anyway I don’t care if it wasn’t it’s even if it wasn’t lace with thin and all they shouldn’t even be taking no drugs like that anyway I don’t feel sorry for him
Last Nite a “911” operator asked to initiate “cpr” on a overdose/potential fenytnal individual. You want to help, but you’ll be exposed to the deadly drug. Just wait for medical personnel.
Off the beach like they never stayed in houses.
Thank you Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for not securing or southern border and allowing these drugs into our communities. Oh and thank you all you 81 million inept voters
So, why are you all renting to spring breakers? Makes me wonder what are these college students going to do when they get out. Yes, drug overdoses is what I want to see in spring breakers, college students. American society, brace yourself!!! Addicts are coming from a college near you.
Junkies, plain and simple.
That’s crazy.
Well at least we know they didn’t get the fentanyl from George 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Officials say they never dealt like anything like this…”
If your officials are saying that they’re high as a kite on the same stuff.
They are probably referring to the fact that there were 6 cases at once.
also the fact that these were all west point cadets… i do agree with you, Drugs are EVERYWHERE!
This is not the time to be doing street drugs. Makes me long for the 80’s.
@mmish You either didn’t truly live in the 80s or never even seen or lived the pleasure lifestyle of that decade.
@Dakid015 Oh I lived in the 80’s and coke practically poured out of faucets in club bathrooms it was so prevalent. Do you really think drugs are something recent? 😂
@Dakid015 did you think I was saying I liked the 80’s because there were no drugs? I was saying the 80’s was great because back the your drugs weren’t laced with Fentanyl.
@mmish Yeah I must have misunderstood your comment. It made it seem like you lived in a time when drugs weren’t used much when I know in fact it started a whole epidemic in that time. From aids to DARE programs, all came from rampant drug use in the 80s. I was born in 84 and my parents certainly lived during that time. It was still a dangerous time because temptation and pleasure were everywhere, but it was still one of the most special and wonderful time of our lives. I wouldn’t mind living in the 80s as a young adult myself if I had a chance.
@Dakid015 It was pretty great 👍
Dumb kids these days
Parents need to learn about this drug and warn their young sons and daughters about this danger! Too many people are dying because of Fentanyl. This drug is mixed with other drugs but it’s not disclosed to the consumers.
This is why marijuana should be legalized. The use of heavy drugs reduced as it was socially looked down upon when marijuana and hashish was legalized in the Netherlands. The reduced usage was also found in the US States with legalized recreational marijuana.
Your logic is deeply flawed.
@Steven Lopez no its not, Marijuana should be legal, this isn’t even an argument…
How did the others try to help….finishing the rest ? Lol…idiots. worst Parents ever
can’t find Quaaludes anymore,anywhere ,but you can find Fentanyl everywhere
Ambien is very similar to Quaaludes.
Whoever is lacing everything with fentanyl is pure evil
This the best West point has? China most be laughing at us right now.
Fentanyl overdose??? Are you sure it wasn’t murder????
Under governor Satan Florida seems to be killing off its people.
Don’t do drugs kids!!!
Why lace it without the users knowledge? No dealer wants that kind of attention.
I guess I am a bit skeptical about the exposure of the two people trying to render aid, also my understanding is that the incidence of transdermal exposure resulting in death is extremely low. Here’s an article excerpt from Health and Justice which explains this:
It is critical to correct these false beliefs for the benefit of both occupational and public health. To that end, the American College of Medical Toxicology and the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology issued a joint report in 2017 asserting the risk of fentanyl overdose via incidental transdermal exposure is very low, and it would take 200 min of breathing fentanyl at the highest airborne concentrations to yield a therapeutic dose, but not a potentially fatal one (Moss et al., 2018). In the very unlikely event of a substantial exposure by either means, the slow onset of opioid toxicity would allow sufficient time to detect and reverse it (Moss et al., 2018). Regardless, police officers nationwide continue to report uncorroborated cases of overdose by dermal or inhalation exposure to fentanyl while social and mainstream media spread these reports without verification, with the social media posts reaching 70 million viewers or more (Beletsky et al., 2020). Most recently, the San Diego Sheriff released a dramatic body camera video of a deputy abruptly falling over after testing recovered fentanyl in the field, alleging he only survived because he was quickly given four doses of intranasal naloxone, and warning viewers they too could quickly overdose from casual or incidental contact with trace amounts of fentanyl (Saunders, 2021). The video was widely reported by national media outlets and received millions of views before a group of interdisciplinary experts decisively rebutted the claim that the event was a fentanyl overdose (Figueroa & Kucher, 2021). This highlights the urgent need for corrective messaging (Attaway et al., 2021).
Anyone with more knowledge about this able to clarify this?
Yeah, as a professional opiate partaker, you are correct that it would be incredibly hard to overdose via transdermally (skin contact) even with no tolerance. The only way I see, in this story, this happening, is they breathed in the drug powder while giving mouth to mouth and it got in their system that way. It would have had to be some seriously powerful stuff to have them OD snorting it in the first place but I have seen that happen to opiate naive people before.
🙏🏾✌🏾🐜mahalo🙏🏾✌🏾🐜 i think they stated what they stated because it is a case where it involves West Point Cadets, and they are possibly trying to give 2 out of the 6 drug-cadets an escape route…so sad, indeed. Safety and wellness, God Bless🙏🏾✌🏾🐜
If you vote for a federal admin to open the borders recklessly, then don’t be surprised when the cartel comes in with drugs to sell to paying customers which cause overdoses. There are so many Netflix documentaries on drug trafficking, & as long as there are buyers there will be suppliers trying to capitalize on it.
this is why drugs should be legalized and highly regulated and taxed to fund rehab programs. sounds like A vicious circle but man has always tried to find ways to get high and we might as well stop black markets from killing people who just want to have a fun weekend and help those who got too far lost in the party.
Wow
West Point Cadets?
Could fix that by just saying no
Bad guys poisoning their own poison now
Lmao……
Natural selection
Wow you have to be more careful
Natural selection is our friend
Not just the crack dealers , but also the crack users should be incarcerated. Adults should accept and take responsibility.
Air B-B ,a bad life threatening company going to bring the city to you rural desolate communities without a police department. Think drug smugglers, child rapists, and prostitutes.
This made the news, while how many spring breakers are out there following the Hunter Biden curriculum
Sorry to hear it happened, glad you’re ok, pick up your possessions at the front gate.
I don’t know why the Mexicans helping the Chinese poison us
Dumb.
Fentanyl dealers should be executed at point of arrest
Wonder if they’ve learned their lesson?
Stupid decisions create stupid consequences
I never did spring break in college and will never encourage it in my children. Too many garbage bred people out there to take advantage of them when they’re out on their own.
I just do not understand why a dealer would lace cocaine with Fentanyl. I can understand why a supplier might cut heroin both being opioid drugs. But why would they do it cocaine? It is extremely fortunate that these kids are still alive.
Because they have very little cocaine, or none. They just use a tiny amount of fentanyl and the rest cheap filler.
They are drug dealers, they don’t care. They rip each other off twice a day, let alone tourists from out of town.
Good hope they learn their lessons you punks
Wow that is scary. Skin contact alone is enough to knock you out!
Opioids and opiates are basically poison. Don’t touch that stuff. The compounds just get more potent, it’s playing Russian roulette for a high.
Biden needs to quit bullshitting and legalize cannabis. The war on drugs obviously doesnt work. He needs to work together with mexicos govt to drain the cartel’s income. They are the ones making synthetic fentanyl also buying the ingredients from China.
The only way to to end this issue is by overdosing with it.
Go Army! Without 911 this would have been a multiple Darwin Award winner!
Stupid is as stupid does.
👼MARCH 12, 2022👼
“WAITING, TRUSTING, AND HOPING are intricately connected, like golden strands interwoven to form a strong chain. Trusting is the central strand, because it is the response from My children that I desire the most. Waiting and hoping embellish the central strand and strengthen the chain that connects you to Me. Waiting for Me to work, with your eyes on Me, to evidence that you really do trust Me. If you mouth the words, “I trust You” while anxiously trying to make things go your way, your words ring hollow. Hoping is future-directed, connecting you to your inheritance in heaven. However, the benefits of hope fall fully on you in the present. Because you are Mine, you don’t just pass time in your waiting. You can wait expectantly, in hopeful trust. Keep your “antennae” out to pick up even the faintest glimmer of My Presence.” (JESUS CALLING)
Open borders, record-breaking amounts of Fentanyl crossing that border, China supplying Mexicans with the Fentanyl…what do you expect. Thanks Big Man!
Mr. Mackey: Drugs are bad m’kay
Just another Friday in Florida
Hilarious
It had to be in Florida
Every one here in the “war zone’’ of Albuquerque gets addicted to that drug…and something called “blues”
So, they thought it was cocaine, but it wasn’t. Like cocaine alone isn’t bad? Somehow that would have been acceptable?
Wtf is so great about fentanyl? Did I miss something?
🙏🏾
Isn’t a a beer and a smoke enuf???
go to college learn how to take drugs whats wrong with these kids???
Dang man can’t even have a good time anymore! Pieceofshtt Fentynal, Meth & Heroin dealers! Those are the ones who should be sought after & charged for life!
Oh really I wonder where that’s coming from LOL
Bhahahahaha good good.
Fentanyl is doing the lords work for us! God Bless Mexico!!!
Amen. We don’t need those west point cadets growing up to be crime committing dirty cops.
They found a little blk kid to pin it on.
sad
Fizzle
Those druggies should left to die
Supposed to be Smart Kids.Hmm
Freedumb!
Play stupid games and you’ll win win stupid prizes!
Stop doing unknown drugs
Floriduh: don’t say fentanyl
It’s because China supplies fentanyl
West Point students God help the USA.
I remember people saying in that one video of a cop ODing “you can’t OD by touching it, that cop is corked and snorted it”.
Well what you gonna say to those students who gave CPR and the cops, they’re crooked too?
yes
wow why this not be told by news years ago why American news so dumb
ngl glad when this happens to rich kids
About time
*God Bless these very smart educated kids. helping to make america great once again one drug death at a time*
truth shines bright when being exposed
by overdosing?
if they are dumb enough to do drugs let them have consequent
I always said, the drug problems solve themselves
well didnt parents tell them not to touch it?. you know like they tell them not to touch unlocked up guns?. good ole Florida.
Only 4 did the drug, but all 6 overdosed? That does not make any sense. Fentanyl is dangerous, but you can’t OD just by being in the same room.
West Point cadets…
Another effect of Biden’s failed Border ‘Security’ policy
Don’t do drugs
West Point students doing coke? Think about it.
Are the cadets being arrested? Let them go so they do it again next year and you have a job reporting about it still I guess…
I don’t understand….why would these dealers cut H with this? I’m off of Heroin for 2 months now, and I asked my dealer this and she doesn’t know why they do it. She doesn’t want her “clients” dying she said. She never cuts it with anything, I mean nothing like Fen or coke…
Then there’s no money to be made if everyone dies….smh….and if it’s traced back to her she’ll go to jail. I think it’s stupid that they mix it with “Fen”. The point is to keep users safe so they buy more… killing them off softly…has no point. I’m just happy I’m off of it. There were times I had to cop from others I sort of knew, but I knew it was cut with Fen because of the way it looked. It was a little or a lot lighter than the heroin I get.. which is brown or tannish looking.
I used it anyway, but very very small amounts…it definitely kicked me up into heaven faster. I just hope others on this can get off🙏🏻 it’s not worth it……
Famous last words from me right….lol..🤷🏻♂️ be cool everyone, be safe 👊🏻 peace from Brooklyn ny
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TRUMP 2024
TRUMP FOR AMERICANS
AMERICANS FOR TRUMP. 🚂
Americans
My brother died from a cocaine/ fentanyl overdose cardiac arrest as did my niece.
Lessons learned hopefully