Olympia, Wash. Illegal fentanyl, a drug that's 30 to 50 times stronger than unsullied heroin, is found in fresh forms and causes a daring rise in overdose deaths across the state of Washington.

According to the Municipal Department of health, 81 fentanyl-related deaths were recorded in 1 half of 2018, compared to 48 deaths for the same stage last year. from December. 5, 121 overdose of fentanyl in Washington, already exceeding 120 deaths reported last year.

The state Agency considers illegal fentanyl was found in all sorts of fake pills in order to look anesthetic.

It was still found in snow-white and colored powders, and could potentially exist in any illegal drug.

This is not a safe development of interventions for heroin and other buyers of opioids, which have all chances not the aristocracy, when illegal drugs contain fentanyl. Fentanyl in 30-50 one stronger than pure heroin, and a Dose of a certain amount of grains of salt has the ability to be fatal to humans of medium volume.

“While the fentanyl was a significant prerequisite to perish from an overdose in other parts of the United States, in our state at the moment, there is a rise of its deadly effects,”said Dr. Kathy Lotfi, employee state health and co-chair of the working group on the response to opioids in the state. “We need people who take illegal drugs in order to find healing and take other measures to reduce the risk of overdose.”

Social health officials are calling people who use opioids to take these measures to help defend themselves against overdose:

• Contact helpdesk for support (see vendor map). Information secret phone signal down to 1-866-789-1511.
• Smell the naloxone.
• In case you have witnessed an overdose, call 911, give naloxone and arrange a rescue breath. To restore breathing fentanyl may need a certain amount of doses of naloxone. The law (RCW 69.50.315) describes the fact that neither the victim nor persons assisting with the overdose will not be prosecuted for the preservation of drugs.
• Never take drugs on your own.
• Be careful when applying very quickly. Fentanyl is fast-acting and unsafe to death. A large number of skilled buyers of opioid sorted out or died by the introduction of a very large number, very quickly.