Pinellas sheriff warns fake Xanax can be deadly
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/111200470-story
LARGO (FOX 13) – A dangerous drug is killing people in Pinellas County, and it’s being passed off as regular Xanax on the streets.
So far it’s caused nine deaths.
“However these pills that were taken and swallowed, were really a combination of Xanax and Fentanyl,” said Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.
Fentanyl is a super-strong synthetic opioid, 50 times more potent than pure heroin. It’s usually prescribed in a time-release patch.
“If people are going out to buy what they think is Xanax on the street, they could end up not waking up,” Sheriff Gualtieri said.
It’s so dangerous it’s hard for authorities to understand why anyone would even blend this kind of deadly cocktail. But more and more mixtures of street drugs and Fentanyl are being reported to local crime labs.
In Pinellas County there has been a spike from 14 reports in 2014 to 71 reports last year.
“We don’t know whether the source of Xanax-Fentanyl mixture is a local source, being manufactured here or in our area or manufactured elsewhere and being imported,” continued Gualtieri.
On at least nine occasions, investigators have purchased the bogus Xanax bars during undercover buys.
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Here we go! The counterfeit plague is upon us. The alphabet moron squad is like the overuse of antibiotics, the more you keep using them, the more the diseases adapt and become immune to them.
Go on DEA, CDC and FDA, keep attacking the people who are trained to prescribe and monitor the intake of legal medications. The more you mess with the doctors, the more creative the cartels and dealers are going to get.
The DEA should stand for Demented Egotistical Assholes. This is an agency that created this war against the real medical profession because the public started questioning their usefulness. They used the pill mills as an excuse to take the attention away from all the miss conduct accusations along with the Investigations against agents for illegal actions. As far as I’m concerned, the DEA should be brought before Congress, investigated from the highest person down to the lowest secretary in the agency. Charges should be brought against every wrong doer and they should replace every convict who is serving time for Marijuana because those convicts should be set free. The rest of the agency should be disbanded because they are worthless.
Wow that’s a really good counterfeit of the 2mg alprazolam by Geneva Genercs, if that’s what’s the Sheriff’s office picked up from the ‘buys’. These cartels are really good. They didn’t need to steal the tablet machine, just have a well trained tool and dye maker make one from an original tablet. Genius, yes? And our alphabet soup government is more concerned about our CPP community and their doctors getting/giving out too much of their legit therapy than they are with the cartels and smuggling in the fake stuff as well as the purer crystal meth. SMDH Counting 8 months and 16 days til most of the people that have ANYTHING to do with this current administration in the alphabet soup mix are out of a job!!