The New Epidemic: Fentanyl

The opioid crisis has brought death and devastation to families all over the world and fentanyl has only made things worse. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a close look at three very different cases involving fentanyl that all have the same end result, death. A wife allegedly uses fentanyl as a weapon to kill her husband, a 20-year-old faces second-degree murder for giving a teen girl a pill with fentanyl, and a toddler is dead when he comes into contact with fentanyl in his daycare.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Discussion: To be free from pain.

00:01:44 Talk about from Tylenol to Fentanyl

00:02:53 Discussion of population desiring to be free from pain, self-medicating

00:04:43 Talk about the opioid crisis

00:07:28 Discussion about the strength of fentanyl

00:10:16 Joe points out how fentanyl can be pressed into other drugs

00:11:51 Description of what an overdose from opioid looks like

00:13:01 Discussing three fentanyl related cases today; Kouri Richins, NYC daycare, and 15-year-old dead from pill

00:14:38 Talk about murder charge in death of 15-year-old girl

00:16:46 Discussion of coroner ruling drug overdose as a “homicide”

00:18:35 Talk about California case, 15-year-old dies from fentanyl

00:22:35 Discussion of pills made in a garage rather than a laboratory

00:23:43 Talk about a 22-month-old child in a daycare exposed to fentanyl

00:26:49 Discussion of “binders” used in making the pills

00:28:48 Description of toddlers in daycare with fentanyl kept directly underneath “nap mats”

00:30:58 Fentanyl used as weapon, tasteless, odorless

00:32:36 Talk about Kouri Richins alleged attempts to poison husband

00:34:33 How to determine if drug was taken as recreation or used as weapon

00:36:01 Discussion of opioid deaths

00:38:36 Talk about tox screen

00:40:28 Discussion of Fentanyl and therapeutic levels

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