• Zron@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    50-100 times the potential lethal dose seems pretty high even for a chronic addict.

    I think either there’s a mix up with the reported numbers here, or they’re reporting the weight of the whole pill, not the fentanyl in the pill.

    A fentanyl pill will be mostly filler material with a little drug sprinkled in, actually that’s most pills in general. A Tylenol pill isn’t 100% Acetaminophen, it’s mostly just filler material.

    So I’m willing to bet the pills way 109 milligrams each, and they’re just little tabs with like 1-10% fentanyl content.

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      14 hours ago

      Idk. I remember hearing that Rush Limbaugh took 100s of oxycontin per day. Tolerance builds.

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        58 minutes ago

        Hundreds?

        No one is taking hundreds of OxyContins. Tolerance builds, but you can’t become immune to the respiratory suppression effects of narcotics.

        Are you sure you’re not misremembering that he Purchased hundreds of pills at a time in shady drug deals? Just because you buy a sack of drugs doesn’t mean you’re going to take them ask that day and doesn’t mean they’re all for you.