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Fentanyl is sold as a drug that can be purchased with a doctor’s prescription in various forms such as patches as well as injection drugs. Along with the appetite suppressant diethamine, which is the main ingredient of the psychotropic drug Phentermine, it is also pointed out that the number of teenage drug offenders arrested last year reached 450, the largest ever.
“Pentanyl’s withdrawal is simply a zombie who can’t eat or sleep,” Satsuki said in an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo at the Korea Anti-Drug Movement Headquarters’ Addiction Rehabilitation Center. “But if you do fentanyl again, it’s okay, but it’s a little bit of hellish pain.” “Pentanyl is Satan, the devil,” he said.The pain of fentanyl poisoning was not his own. Satsuki was angry and cursed at his mother, who was usually close to him, saying, “Where is my medicine?” It is said that there was a stabbing while arguing with the rapper boyfriend who played fentanyl together. In fact, about 20 scars remain on Satsuki’s left arm as if he had been cut by a weapon. During the interview, he also confessed, “I have tried to make an extreme choice to escape from pain.”
The amount of fentanyl, a narcotic analgesic seized by the U.S. Border Guard so far this year, can kill five times the total population of the U.S., the Daily Mail reported.
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Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic painkiller developed by Janssen, a Belgian pharmaceutical company, and is now patented. The drug is 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin, and its total lethal dose (LD100) is only around 2 mg. For this reason, it is also used as a poison for murder purposes in addition to drugs. Thanks to the powerful effect of the drug, it was originally used as a painkiller for terminal cancer patients suffering tremendous pain, combined-site pain syndrome (CRPS) patients, and large surgery patients.In the United States, since the late 1990s and early 2000s, sanctions have been eased due to the lobbying of pharmaceutical companies, resulting in numerous misuse and deaths due to doctors’ incorrect prescriptions. These unintentional drug addicts flowed into street drug dealers.The fake oxycontin on the street was initially mixed with heroin, but soon suppliers noticed that fentanyl was quite simple and addictive, so they started producing ingredients from China and shipping it to Mexico to make fentanyl and selling it to black markets in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.## As fentanyl is a super-strong narcotic painkiller, it is virtually impossible to quit # because withdrawal symptoms cause pain such as frying meat in oil. By exploiting this, drug dealers began mixing fentanyl into the fake drug manufacturing process of almost all dependent drugs, producing fentanyl addicts.Eventually, drugs began to flow in large quantities on the streets, causing the worst drug crisis in North America from 2013. Rep. Tim Berchett of Tennessee quoted a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official as saying that the amount seized at the U.S. border was 9,400 pounds (about 4,264 kilograms), Xinhua news agency and other foreign media reported on the 9th (local time). Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama also said fentanyl is like a “weapon” crossing the border to kill Americans, especially the amount of smuggling aimed at young people is a new record. He was quoted as saying, “There are always many people under the age of 24 who die from fentanyl overdose, but the youth mortality rate is particularly high in African-American communities.” Fentanyl is a drug that is limited to terminal cancer patients or patients suffering from extreme pain such as spinal disease, and the pain effect is 200 times that of morphine and 100 times that of heroin. It is also called a “zombie drug” because of its very persistent and powerful tolerance and dependence. Currently, fentanyl addiction, a “drug of death,” is cited as the number one cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49, beating COVID-19, traffic accidents, and shooting accidents. Last year, 107,622 people died of drug overdoses, 67% of which were caused by fentanyl. In Los Angeles, the number of fentanyl-related deaths has jumped about 1,300 percent over the past five years.
KS CHOI
ASIA JOURNAL
