• sniggleboots@europe.pub
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    12 days ago

    Fentanyl patches are pretty dangerous. The package insert explicitly warns you not to get the patch on your fingers or hands because the substance gets absorbed into the body more quickly than intended. It also warns against cutting a patch in half (or using otherwise damaged patches) because that too increases the rate at which the patch releases the medicine.

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      12 days ago

      The patches have many ingredients to allow the drug to be absorbed into the skin. This is because the drug alone doesn’t penetrate effectively.

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      12 days ago

      Yea we are fully aware of the patches but the powder form seems a stretch. Then it came a big deal and all cops were overdosing or whatever. For whatever reason.

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        My ex talks about a guy who cut strips of the patches and lay them across his gums so I’m not sure they’re not lying about the patches either. But every body is different so what one person experiences will differ from another.

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      11 days ago

      it’s about the bloodflow to the area that you put the patch on. not an expert, just have had patches. the hands have more bloodflow than the muscle you usually place it on.