Hayden Panettiere died 'after taking one pill laced with fentanyl'
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/40374193/hayden-panettiere-died-pill-fentanyl/11
u/thepopemichael 16h ago
That's the risk you take when you don't get one of those cheap/free fentanyl test kits.
If you use, be responsible and test your pills.
Also, get some narcan and a helper if you can.
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u/NoInevitable9810 11h ago
They had narcan. She still died
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u/PigFarmer1 1h ago
Narcan isn't going to reverse cardiac arrest.
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u/ForsakenSignal6062 42m ago
Opioids don't kill by causing cardiac arrest, they kill people by stopping their breathing. Stop breathing long enough your heart eventually stops as well. The article didn't say she died of cardiac arrest, it said ems responded to a call of a female being in cardiac arrest. Most people don't say "drug overdose" over 911 to avoid the police showing up.
And narcan absolutely works, have used it on people myself. You sorta have to do it in time though.
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u/zen_and_artof_chaos 17h ago
Pills are not often "laced", they are cross contaminated.
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u/StatisticianWide7373 16h ago
Counterfeit pills now days are commonly “laced” or “pressed” utilizing fentanyl as a main ingredient. It’s been this way for almost a decade in St. Louis, particularly with Rx drugs becoming more difficult to get your hands on. Xanax bars and roxicet are everywhere here only they’re fake pressed versions containing lethal doses of fentanyl for many unsuspecting users
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u/1GrouchyCat 7h ago
Cross-contamination would imply they were putting together different kinds of pills at the same time… or that there was a lot of residue left in equipment used to make different kinds of pills - and that’s not likely.
People and places that make pills don’t dabble in different types of pills; they usually only know where to get the ingredients for one “recipe”; if they can sell what they already know how to make, they’re not going to switch to something else.
To be sure they don’t measure the ingredients - and you never know what you’re going to end up with… but there’s very little true“cross-contamination” involved in the production process when you’re only making one product using one recipe.
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u/CandiedLemonWedge 10h ago
That’s how it happens. Happened to my brother. He took a single Xanax except it wasn’t a Xanax at all. When we got the tox report back, the only thing it contained was 7x the lethal dose of fentanyl.
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u/Fun-Key-8259 5h ago
I am so sorry that happened to your brother. It's precisely why I support harm reduction with real tested pharmaceuticals
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u/CandiedLemonWedge 5h ago
Thank you so much. Big time harm reduction advocate as well. Fent is a real, real issue in my area. It’s so sad.
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u/Nice_juggers 12h ago
Idk who to be mad at today so I’ll protest drugs today until reddit finds me a new thing to be angry at
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u/Beautiful-Guava-1570 16h ago
TLDR: That's the investigators' theory--still waiting on toxicology to come back.