Hey BCS fam! Symetria Recovery College Station (and other locations, see below*) is holding a FREE Spring-Fling event that is open to the public.

Symetria Recovery - College Station
1651 Rock Prairie Road Suite 101
College Station, Texas 77845

Tuesday April 25th 2023 from 4pm-6pm

~Come meet the Program Director, Carla Collier
~Tour the facility
~Enjoy refreshments & sweets
~Receive a FREE Narcan kit with educational tutorial

If you have any questions or concerns or want to RSVP, contact KLopez@Symetriahealth.com

Symetria Texas locations are all holding Spring Fling events throughout April & May.

Other locations and dates:

Symetria Recovery Houston(Jersey Village) Texas Wednesday May 3rd from 3pm-5pm

Symetria Recovery Spring Texas Tuesday May 9th 12 noon-2pm

Symetria Recovery Fort Worth Texas Thursday April 27th 4pm-6pm

Symetria Recovery Lewisville Texas Monday May 22nd 3pm-5pm

Contact TLewis@Symetriahealth.com for more information

Friend of mine is a Cop in Washington DC, told me to start carrying Narcan in my truck.

Accidental ODs happen all the time and not by the people that you think. It's not all, "stoners" and homeless people. Little kids and senior citizens can accidentally get hit by fentanyl as well.

It's rather frightening. One psychopath could end trick or treating or buffets or innumerable other social eating/drinking occasions as we know it with Fentanyl.

is that really any different than what a person could do with strychnine or a host of other poisons (that are easier to obtain that fentanyl)?

Nope. Just the newest thing to scare people with. Drug dealers and drug users don't typically waste their drugs. Every year on Halloween, I roll my eyes at all the, "omg, people are putting drugs in candy!" It's all a myth.

Could someone do it? Sure. Is it likely? No. Way more likely to be killed some psycho in a mass shooting at that buffet.

especially if they run out of prime rib

Not to mention most of the videos online of "fentanyl poisoning" are likely psychogenic. You don't pass out from touching it, or being in the near vicinity of it. And then you don't wake up within 2 seconds of getting narcan up the nose. Even giving it IV, usually takes 20-30 seconds before you start seeing people more arousable.

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is that really any different than what a person could do with strychnine or a host of other poisons (that are easier to obtain that fentanyl)?

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I don't know, someone killed or almost killed several people with it at a concert down in Houston a couple years ago. Quick jabs with a syringe in the crowd. Yeah, other poisons can do the same but don't seem to be so easy to come by and potentially use like this. It's good that there is a quick acting remedy.

MouthBQ98 said:

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Diggity said:

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is that really any different than what a person could do with strychnine or a host of other poisons (that are easier to obtain that fentanyl)?

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I don't know, someone killed or almost killed several people with it at a concert down in Houston a couple years ago. Quick jabs with a syringe in the crowd. Yeah, other poisons can do the same but don't seem to be so easy to come by and potentially use like this. It's good that there is a quick acting remedy.

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Guessing you are referring to this? If so, it didn't happen.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbpbw/travis-scott-astroworld-concert-stabbed-drugs