Two College Students Dead As Fake Pills Laced With Fentanyl Plague The U.S.

Two Ohio State University students died after taking fentanyl-laced fake Adderall pills. NBC News’ Meagan Fitzgerald explains why more than 150 people in the U.S. are dying every day from a synthetic opioid overdose.

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[katiedid]

We used To drink coffee when cramming... I do not understand drug use today...

[katiehettinger]

That's happened in the 60's and 70's with pot laced with angle dust. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.- Mark Twain

[ianboudreaux]

Leave the pills alone and just smoke weed.

[chrispaul]

Dang they sure react differently when it’s their

[johnhmielewski]

I was actually offered "Tylenol with codeine" on a construction job by a coworker for my back pain and turned it down. The next day One of the other guys who took it from him went to the ER for fentanyl overdose and the guy with the pills is on leave under investigation. If you take pills from anyone besides a doctor or getting them yourself from the drug store like Walgreens etc. then got it coming.

[droolalot]

You means drugs not obtained legally from a pharmacy and not prescribed by a doctor could be tainted and dangerous?! Say it ain't so!!

[dappyfull]

I would only be worried if the legitimate pharmaceutical supply base was contaminated with the counterfeit drugs. But if you want to take drugs from random people, be ready for the consequences

[robertbrandt]

life sentence for anyone caught selling fentenyl😊

[marniemarn]

This is so tragic. My condolences and prayers for these students’ loved ones.

[kryptonarie]

Truly sad!
My son's good friend, a junior in college at UW Eau Claire, he also just died of an overdose! My son is devastated (as are many students across the U.S.), because this was his second friend in mere months who's died of an accidental overdose! The mental health of young people today, it's being severely tested, because all they see is pending doom from of climate change, covid-19, rising inflation costs, the threat of authoritarianism on democracy, Americans' rights (their generation) under attack, and on top of everything there's the senseless overdose deaths of friends, acquaintances and people their age! The aforementioned issues are making young people like my 30 yr/o daughter and my 19 and 22 yr/o sons not excited for their futures, but extremely fearful of what kind of future they're going to actually have — especially when the future is being stolen by wealthy profit means more than people corporations, old greedy apathetic power whoring politicians and their wealthy donors!!!

[borndoitright]

Wow! So you don't want to lock the drug users up like you did during the crack epidemic?

[fakeaccount]

Free test kits for Fentanyl on campus would be smart!!!

[pinkakagreen]

these students need to have some culpability

[chrisspellman]

The amount of prescription drug abuse in the Us is truelly shocking! I know these drugs weren't proscribed but anyway it seems like many doctors in America are no better than drug dealers.

[JRAFF]

Those "blue pills" are no new news here in Phoenix. Straight from Mexico.

[alliesinger]

The same thing happened to me. I was a lucky one who was lucky to wake up, but the doctor said if I even touched another one I would’ve died. Don’t buy anything off the street. I’m serious. I never thought it would happen to me

[skittlesrainbow]

This is awful. 😔 I pray that my daughter stays away from drugs.

[claudermiller]

Is someone deliberately killing addicts?

[Barnabas]

Nothing like killing your customers so they come back for more!

[everythingvideos]

Well who's fault is that well the Students of course.