The New Epidemic: Fentanyl

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. To be free from pain, I think that many of us seek that status in our life, particularly as you
0:26.9	get older. You want to be free from pain and one of the ways we do that in the
0:31.7	world in which we dwell is through medicine. And you know
0:38.7	medicine is in fact a it's a miracle on many levels what it can do. The drugs that we utilize for this
0:48.0	purpose are give us relief when everything else is we've reached the end I've got back pain I've got
0:55.0	neck pain shoulder pain a life lived very roughly on my part but we turn to these things
1:01.7	called analgesics and they relieve us of pain that we suffer from.
1:06.5	And these can range from anything like an aspirin perhaps, Tylenol.
1:11.0	But it also extends into a group of drugs called opioids. And unfortunately,
1:18.6	the world in which we endwell now, these opioids and these substances that we turn to to relieve us from
1:28.8	pain seem to have created another kind of pain, a pain that breaks the heart, a pain that is
1:39.1	bookended by grief. Today we're going to talk about fentanyl and the recent spike in deaths related to
1:50.9	fentanyl.
1:53.6	Emphasized by three cases.
1:58.4	My name is Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
2:08.0	Dave, I've been a pain in the rear end, I've been a pain in the neck.
2:09.0	And sometimes you just can't get relief from either,
2:12.0	either in a metaphorical sense or in a
2:14.4	literal sense but pain relief we need we certainly do many times and of
2:20.4	course the first reaction is to either reach up in the medicine cabinet or go to the doctor, but unfortunately
2:28.6	we've got a big segment of our population that goes to other locations to relieve pain and I don't necessarily
2:36.1	know that it's physical pain as much as it is many times emotional pain.
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