Especially Chicago.
Better back ground checks? Longer waiting period before shooting up? You would think by now Chicago could enact better heroin control laws like those gun laws they have.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/chicago-74-people-overdose-heroin-three-days
Chicago, already embattled by gun violence and murder, can add heroin overdoses to the list of problems facing the city. "In Chicago, at least 74 people overdosed on heroin over a period of just three days last week. Officials think the drug had been mixed with powerful painkillers."
Across the country, heroin overdoses are on the rise -- up over 170 percent report federal agents.
"The Chicago Tribune, citing hospital officials, reported by Friday afternoon at least 14 people were rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago to be treated for possible heroin overdoses, and some patients still had needles in their arms."
Registered nurse Diane Hicks, the emergency room director at Mount Sinai hospital, said that 14 patients collapsed immediately upon injecting themselves with the heroin cocktail.
"We suspect what is happening is the same thing that happened in 2006 when people were getting heroin that was cut with fentanyl, which is a very strong narcotic," she told the newspaper. “That’s what we think is happening.”
Or maybe they just need stricter fentanyl laws.
Better back ground checks? Longer waiting period before shooting up? You would think by now Chicago could enact better heroin control laws like those gun laws they have.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/chicago-74-people-overdose-heroin-three-days
Chicago, already embattled by gun violence and murder, can add heroin overdoses to the list of problems facing the city. "In Chicago, at least 74 people overdosed on heroin over a period of just three days last week. Officials think the drug had been mixed with powerful painkillers."
Across the country, heroin overdoses are on the rise -- up over 170 percent report federal agents.
"The Chicago Tribune, citing hospital officials, reported by Friday afternoon at least 14 people were rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago to be treated for possible heroin overdoses, and some patients still had needles in their arms."
Registered nurse Diane Hicks, the emergency room director at Mount Sinai hospital, said that 14 patients collapsed immediately upon injecting themselves with the heroin cocktail.
"We suspect what is happening is the same thing that happened in 2006 when people were getting heroin that was cut with fentanyl, which is a very strong narcotic," she told the newspaper. “That’s what we think is happening.”
Or maybe they just need stricter fentanyl laws.