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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a pill is laced with fentanyl, I think someone who mistakenly takes it should be considered a victim of poisoning, not ODing.

When someone ODs, they take too much of a drug they intended to take. '

When someone is poisoned, they are given a harmful dose of a drug they had no intention of taking.[/quote]

+1000[/quote]

I think it’s referred to as an accidental overdose, but I get what you’re saying.  Maybe it would help with the stigma.  It really does seem “one pill can kill” needs to be repeated and publicized heavily among youth.[/quote]

It's not accidental if the kid took a pill on purpose. But kids aren't taking these pills thinking they are fentanyl, are they? Are they just taking them and they get more fentanyl than they intended? I don't think so. So it really isn't an accidental overdose.

They are being poisoned. People are deliberately poisoning kids, teens, others with fentanyl by adding it to other drugs that the kids do intend to take.

If someone was adding grains of fentanyl to, say Starbucks coffee grounds (a legal drug) and a kid bought the coffee, thinking it was coffee, and got some fentanyl and died or was sent to the hospital - would you say he had an accidental overdose? Or that he was poisoned?[/quote]

I’m not sure the phrasing would make a difference with prosecuting the dealers but if the entire discussion of fentanyl was reframed as an issue of poisoning instead of overdose, I wonder if that would make more kids pay attention or better understand the issue. Overdosing makes it sound like someone took a little too much of something they knew they didn’t have a prescription for and took anyway. The term poisoning brings to mind all of the lessons kids learned when they were little about not drinking chemicals. Everyone knows drinking bleach is bad for you and you’d die if you did it; overdosing on a fake Percocet makes it sound like it was something that just happened by mistake and kids who are “smart” about it will be okay.[/quote]

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