What is Fentanyl Health and Politics
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that The opioid crisis was made by
is 50 times more potent than corporations. They created an
heroin. Fentanyl is often mixed, addicted population to
cut, or ingested alongside other continuously steal money from.
drugs, including cocaine, meth, Instead of punishing those
and heroin. It only takes 2 mg (the corporations, the government
size of a couple grains of sand) to
kill someone.
arrested and brutalized the
victims of addiction. All the while, Fentanyl
hundreds of thousands of people A deadly drug
Signs of an Opioid died from overdosing on opiates.
Overdose We should not live in a society that
values profit over people.
Fentanyl, along with heroin and
morphine, are opioids. They can If you are interested and able,
cause overdose if too much is please reach out to your comrades
taken at once. Here are some at All Power Book Store about how
symptoms of opioid overdose: you can help build a better world!
● “Pinpoint” (very small) Solidarity forever!
*the lethal dose of fentanyl
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● Very sleepy or unconscious 4874 W ADAMS Blvd
● Slow, shallow breathing
● Choking or gurgling
● Pale, blue, or cold skin
What to Do During What are Fentanyl Testing procedure
an Overdose Test Strips? 1. Wash your hands to
minimize contamination of
1. Call 911 immediately Small strips of paper that, if used the test strip
2. Administer narcan if correctly, can determine if drugs 2. Set aside at least 10mg of
available are mixed or contaminated with the drugs you want to test
a. Lay them on their fentanyl. 3. Crush the drugs into a fine
back powder if not already in
b. Tilt their head back
c. Place narcan spout in
Warnings about powder form
4. Use ½ a tablespoon of clean
one nostril fentanyl test strips (preferably sterile) water
d. Firmly press on 5. Mix the drugs and water
plunger Some drugs may have “hot spots”, together
e. Repeat every 2-3 min, which are the parts of the drug 6. Place the wavy end of the
switching nostrils that contain fentanyl. The test may test strip in the drug and
each time, until incorrectly give you a negative water mixture for 15 sec
person wakes up or result if your sample does not 7. Take the test strip out and
starts breathing include one of the hot spots, even leave on a dry flat surface
better though there may be fentanyl for 2-5 minutes
3. If person wakes up: place present in the rest of the drug. 8. Read the results:
them on their side in case Even if the test states there is no ● 1 pink line = positive:
they vomit fentanyl present, proceed with fentanyl detected
4. If person does not wake up: caution. ● 2 pink lines = negative:
do CPR (if you are trained) no fentanyl detected
and wait for help Keep narcan nearby when using ● No lines = invalid result,
any drug in case of fentanyl! repeat procedure with a
new test sample and strip
