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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.