It should be noted that like guns, narcotics are not the problem. The problem is always people, people who abuse both. We’d be in a world of hurt without narc’s, both literally and figuratively. But just because narc’s are abused, a second, great wrong would be legalizing them. Totally wrong.
Fentanyl is truly a great drug, used in medical environments, and often used as the basis for many anesthesia techniques. In fact, it has spawned a couple of others — sufentanyl and alfentanyl — longer- acting and ultra-short acting derivatives.
But fentanyls potency in anesthesia also make it ultra dangerous when abused in street form when the strength/potency and amount in some pill or tablet are completely unknown. I have seen a nurse administer 1cc of medical grade fentanyl (50 mcg), a relatively small amount, in the recovery room, and put a patient in respiratory arrest necessitating resuscitation and Narcan.
