Two Ohio State University students died after taking fentanyl-laced fake Adderall pills. NBC News’ Meagan Fitzgerald explains why more than 150 people in the U.S. are dying every day from a synthetic opioid overdose.
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China China China……
Please kids stop taking pills. Just assume they’re all laced because it’s looking like most of them really are.
The problem is that The Big Guy and his administration are allowing tons of this garbage across the non-existent border.
cool. Darwin wins again.
Keep the fentanyl border open!
could the college students of today be any stupider and less responsible?
That’s why you should be able to get whatever you want from the pharmacy. It’s the only way to fix this.
Maybe so, but drugs like heroin, cocaine, morphine and others used to be legally available without prescription and people still became highly addicted to them with subsequent problems.
To American Parents: Your kids are a bunch of druggies college or not.
Thank Joe Biden
It’s ok, it was their choice. Atleast they weren’t murdered by someone else.
Stop taking pills!!!!
This is the governments fault. If these drugs were legal, they would be regulated like all other food, drugs, and medicine. Everything bought would be high quality. But government force it onto the black market, because the government thinks it has the right to control what we put in our bodies.
Open borders have consequences…
I have a solution. Don’t ever take a pill that’s not prescribed to you personally by a physicians.
Thanks JOE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY!
Serves them right. Those drug addicts are responsible for cartels
Do not take 💊 pills ☠️
Good ol white kids.
leave fentanyl for hospice and terminally i’ll cancer patients
See even a college education is Not worth the Money , College is knowledge yet these idiots didn’t even look up the info to insure what they was taking 🙄! Colleges was founded for idiots 🙄 🤣
Maybe we should go after the big pharma that produces fentynal
No one’s fault but those students.
Why go after the dealer… go straight to source. Shut it down at the base. They always want the big fish….that would be big pharma.
Border has been wide open for almost 2 years, If you think fentanyl is bad now wait until 2024.
I went to cvs and got narcan in case I ever see this
Everyone please carry this whether you are an active user, or not, it saves lives…
What’s scary here is that we have people going to college to do drugs ! they must have to much time on their hands !
Blame Biden for allowing legal immigrants to cross the border bringing them drugs into the country.
Wow people are trying this hard to get people addicted!!
so 2 college kids die and it makes nation wide news; others die daily and nothing said; not just homless but people from every lifestyle are dying from this stuff
Booze and grass.
No Freaking pills 💊
and 💉crap.
Maybe 🍄 mushroom’s.
You need to know the right ones tho 🍄🫠
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This could have been way worse if they weren’t vaccinated
Everyone is hooked up on synthetic drugs.
fake drug
No sympathy
Oh so sad. Bye bye
Good, maybe you shouldn’t do drugs, yall ever think of that? Oh yeah, Adderall is a drug too!!!
Taking pills or a jab from someone you have no idea about, nor what’s in it, is stupid.
Taking a jab/pills you know nothing about from a company you 100 % know is the most sued place in the world for malpractice is even stupider.
Meh, we all make choices! They made theirs! Two less pill heads!
Dam white people never disappoint me smh
Guns killing the blacks, pills killing the white WTF 😳
It’s not that difficult to get an adderall prescription. What a dumb way to die.
Don’t do drugs
Who cares??
Why I haven’t taken a pill off the street in like 10 years and never will
FEN TA NILL, pronounced phonetically. Not FEN TA NALL..jeez.
I am glad I was poor as a student, the only thing I could afford to stay up late to study was No-Doz. Good thing I could not afford the fancy stuff.
Free test kits for Fentanyl on campus would be smart!!!
I honestly thinks that the reason why this is not getting better is because of corrupt individuals in high places
I was actually offered “Tylenol with codeine” on a construction job by a coworker for my back pain and turned it down. The next day One of the other guys who took it from him went to the ER for fentanyl overdose and the guy with the pills is on leave under investigation. If you take pills from anyone besides a doctor or getting them yourself from the drug store like Walgreens etc. then got it coming.
SMART MOVE for u…..adults should know not to take others pills
JESUS ADDERALL, WTF, PLEASE LORD ALMIGHTY PROTECT THESE CHILDREN
College students, I thought 🤔 they’re smart, changed my mind 🤷🏻♀️
They used to press this stuff up and sneak it over here in the mid 2014 Now they just over here pressing it up whenever and nobody really cares until “a bad batch” come out and hit places like a campus
Sooooo scary!!!
Free narcan is better than nothing, but THINK!!!
How about more harm reduction by passing out reagent tests….that way, your not addressing it AFTER ingestion.
THEN…amnesty for those turning in these laced black market pills, and establishing a path to finding the specific purveyors.
Everyone gets understandably mad…but proceeds with urgency, and leaves the intelligence behind.
Think.
America is not only having drug OD/use epidemic but stupidity epidemic, they are being told not to use drugs but they still do, they are being told multiple times to be careful w/ what they take but unfortunately most of them don’t care, it is what it is i guess, may the strongest link survive. And now it will soon become a “dead skunk” country…
Democrats border policy killing Americans every day!
Don’t do drugs simple.
Here’s a tip : STOP BEING DRUG ADDICTS
First of all, it’s _fentaNYL,_ not _fentaNOL._ Secondly, how about this for a novel idea: STOP TAKING RANDOM PILLS.
The government started this
With all their drug experiments
The US government is genocide!
All long with other countries!
They need to make new drugs
For cheap price
for the consumer
To be addicted to!
A drug addict will always find drugs
Real or fake .
That is jarring that they’re finding fentanyl in non opioid drugs.
Fetnayl Kingpin Biden and his border policies are having implications both directly and indirectly.
If I were the parents a full scale investigation should be conducted and if the source of Fetnayl is from the border, henceforth your accomplices.
This is an “epidemic ” because it’s happening to white folk!!!!!
The crack epidemic was still called the crack epidemic
I don’t feel sorry for anyone concerned they weren’t looking to use these medically they were using them to get high and absolutely no other reason people who get high pay the price boo hoo
Oh no! So they are selling fentanyl in adderral? It sure wouldn’t help you stay awake for studying or partying. Very insidupus. What happens when the DEA starts prohibiting Drs from.prescribing pills that “feel good”! Witch hunts such.as those
life sentence for anyone caught selling fentenyl😊
First of all there are way too many students on Adderall it is totally unnecessary for many of them School psychologists go crazy with Adderall it doesn’t surprise me that fentanyl found their way in and many college students don’t even need Adderall they just take it so that they can go on study binges what a bunch of crap I don’t feel sorry for for any of them and it makes me wonder how many of these drug addicts have parents who were bad at parenting
Stop doing chemicals…
Thank you democrats. Continue to open the border, I feel safer already.
Just smoke weed, guys
That’s happened in the 60’s and 70’s with pot laced with angle dust. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.- Mark Twain
This is so tragic. My condolences and prayers for these students’ loved ones.
They were smart to make it to college. That was a good thing. The colleges have to take some blame. The professors make completing assignments on time so difficult that students think they need to pull all nighters to finish. I’ve been there. So what do they do, they turn to super human drugs to power their minds. Those who can’t tolerate it end up bringing grief to their families. So sad 😞
When I was in college you could do coke at a party with people you don’t know and have zero issues
92% of fentanyl comes across the Mexican border according to Homeland Security and the DEA. Yet they won’t mention that.
It aint worth it stop taking these pills there killing people
The same thing happened to me. I was a lucky one who was lucky to wake up, but the doctor said if I even touched another one I would’ve died. Don’t buy anything off the street. I’m serious. I never thought it would happen to me
Build the frigging wall. The illegals are drug traffickers.
That dude is really stupid. How, are they planning on arresting the pusher man. When, the core responsibility should be laid on the distributors. This dude got jokes! 🤷🤔🤬🤯
Russian Roulette may be an easier way of committing Suicide. DO NOT purchase ANY man made chemical, from a street vendor. Best to not even engage with strangers, these days
Legalize all substances for adults to put in their own body. That way there is quality control and you know what you get. Not really hard to grasp.
Natural selection will find a way.
Sh!t killed my lil brother last year in ohio. Fake Xanax. With fetty. When your prescription runs out tell your doctor you need more. Dont go to friends or the streets for your prescription. Also Make marijuana legal so big pharma will lose the need for these pills
Not one story in the news about legitimate lawful pain patients unable to get pain meds and now using fentanyl because that’s all that they can get.
Not one story in the news about all of the legitimate pain patients denied lawful pain meds due to the opioid epidemic.
Not one story in the news about legitimate pain patients now turning to alcohol to ease pain.
What is news worthy? Non pain patients dying from recreational use of these meds.
really what about the over 100k thousand American fentanyl over doses due to lack of a secure border??????????? the number is rising under this corrupt failed admin,, not to mention another over 500k American Covid deaths yet democrats still repurposed Covid relief funds to support CRT,,,THE government has showed it’s despise of parents, the unvaxxed, Trump supports, republicans, these corrupt people are simply pushing illegal immigration to repopulate their voter base,,,,,, ,you break a few eggs when your a democrat!!!!!!!!!!!
At 2:09 the “authentic” adderall is a 20mg IR and the “counterfeit” is a 30mg IR. I take 30mg IR and they look just like that . Just saying so people aren’t out here thinking their 30s are fake ( mine come from a pharmacy but just saying )
Know your dealer kids.
We need to get rid of this fentynal stuff, this is almost considered bio-chemical warfare on our country. China sends this to Mexico, then Mexico sends it to the US right? So let’s stop it at it’s source now!!!!
Where is the Food & Drug Administration on this?!
Deadly situation because Americans need their medication to live!!
Why is the question never about young people taking illicit substances? 🥺
It’s crazy that these things are available in the states. America makes everything detrimental to its citizens available for purchase. Guns, drugs, alcohol you name it.
I was given a prescription for minor pain. After 3 days, didn’t like the way they made me feel (distant, sluggish, out of touch zombiish) and stopped taking them. Haven’t used anything stronger than aspirin since then.
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But why put it in the uppers Jesus
Only buy orange addies not blue
Go to your Dr., get a prescription, fill it, and live. DON’T buy pills off the street. Doesn’t take a genius to know this👈🏾
Stop taking pills not prescribed to you Period!
glad i was not a stupid kid..I WOULD NEVER TAKE A PILL FOR DRUG USE!!!!! THEN AND now! its stupid adults taking and dying from taking pills too. never ever take a pill not provided by medical professional
Police officer in Columbus were arrested for dealing Fentanyl a couple months ago.