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sunny-dave | 17:26 Mon 05th Mar 2018 | News
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Very strange - the BBC report is short on information and high on paranoia :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-43289194

Actually, it just looks like it was someone being sick on a bench after taking fentanyl - but the over-the-top secrecy is just alarming people :

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/salisbury-hospital-police-fire-crews-attend-major-incident
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I guess before the substance is know they have to be cautious, but worrying to see all that on your day to day routine.

Fentanyl is scary stuff.
The BBC are now saying the man is a former Russian spy who was given refuge in the uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134

Fentanyl is one of the most deadly poisons known, just 3 milligrams is fatal. That is just 0.000003 gram. Full 'biohazard' equipment is vital to clean up a spill, contact with vomit alone from a person who has swallowed it could kill a lot of people
https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/fentanyl-heroin-photo-fatal-doses/
Fentanyl is used in the USA
Fentanyl is used as part of anesthesia to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedure
Apparently he was a Russian spy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134
"Fentanyl is one of the most deadly poisons known, just 3 milligrams is fatal."

"Fentanyl is scary stuff."

Aren't we going a bit OTT here?

Fentanyl is used regularly in clinical medicine, in the usual and normal dose.

I can’t ever remember hearing that the drug Fentanyl has been used as a poison to kill people but have heard it used as a drug to get high and people have overdosed on it.

I’m pretty sure the Russians can get hold of better poisons and/or radioactive materials such as polonium etc...
Cops in the US confiscate sock/shoe fuls of the stuff in every half hour episode of 'Cops'.
Presumably adulterated as most (street) drugs are.
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Eddie - at least do the maths properly - 3 milligrams is .003 grams

3mg might well be a fatal dose **if injected**

I'm not saying they didn't need the biohaz suits and full major incident protocol - just that the original BBC item was needlessly scary as it witheld information that was available elsewhere.
The gift that keeps on giving.
They'll be putting the fiction writers out of business ...
Apparently he was outside Greggs on a bench having been sick. Amazing anyone thought it odd.
Was Fentanyl not the dog that chased the deer a while back?

Loving your work, Eddie.
OK - It's stupid to abuse it, if that is what has happened.
Nah Douglas that was Fenton
As soon as I heard about this I thought it was another Litvinenko episode. Russian spy defecting to UK being poisoned with something called polonium which was deadly and could have killed anyone it touched. As for Fentanyl, my Mother had this in patch form after being put on an "End of life" plan. She was on 50mg and the patches lasted 3 days. She lived for another 15 months and died at 97.
// Aren't we going a bit OTT here? // S
yes we most certainly are.
You local hospital uses it every day on every operating list as it is such a good analgesic ( pain killer ) . It is also a powerful respiratory depressant ( stops you breathing ) and so it is necessary to maintain respiration.

It is also a drug of abuse ( a bit like Trama dol) - God knows why.

You can die if someone pukes fentanyl laden puke over you ? - well not really - it is used by injection

Laurence Harvey's daughter died from it - fentanyl patches are available. Day-zir-ay or someone - she worked as a bounty hunter in Amerikee. Nope I am not making this up. Had intractable back pain - you see and zooped a litte too much
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey
oops shd have checked
oral preps are available
sozza punters
A derivative of Fentanyl was what was used in the Nord Ost theatre show siege by Russian special forces, to devastating effect (they managed to kill many of the hostages).
It doesn't sound as though the initial identification of the substance though was correct. It may have been something not seen here before.
not just one man though was it, there was a young woman with him.
I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation. A former Russian spy and double agent goes for a nice Italian lunch and then decides to chill out on a park bench with a bit of Fentanyl.

We've all done it - I know I have.

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