Latest opioid drug bust

[Jeff]

"Synthetic opioid strong enough to 'kill more than 50M people' seized in California, authorities say"

This is scary shit, imagine if this were to somehow get into the public water supply.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/26/opioids-carfentanil-elephant-tranquilizer-seized-riverside-police/5876940001/">//https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/26/opioids-carfentanil-elephant-tranquilizer-seized-riverside-police/5876940001/

[YoDoug]

It would really depend on where it was added to the public water supply. To reach a large enough area it would have to be added in a very centralized location. Large cities can process a hundred million of gallons of water a day. It would be pretty diluted at that point. If you added it to a smaller branch of distribution the concentration could be high enough to cause real trouble, but the number of houses/etc it would reach would be far less. Still a scary thought though.

[CNCAppsJames]

This is scary shit, imagine if this were to somehow get into the public water supply.

Yep. Scary indeed. That's within 15 miles of where I live.

[RobertELee]

There are hundreds of water quality sensors in most municipal water supplies that I imagine if anything did get put in it wouldn't make it very far before alarms went off and systems shut down. IMO that's the last thing I'd worry about.

[Incogneeto]

here in E'ville narcan is being used on Multiple daily occurrences.

We are being flooded with fentanyl laced tablets.

Dombasses.

[CNCAppsJames]

There are hundreds of water quality sensors in most municipal water supplies that I imagine if anything did get put in it wouldn't make it very far before alarms went off and systems shut down. IMO that's the last thing I'd worry about.

They don't test for everything under the sun. Here's what my municipality tests for.
https://en.calameo.com/read/005549230d3dfb1dce4a5">https://en.calameo.com/read/005549230d3dfb1dce4a5

Narcotics? I'll venture to say probably not. That said, I could definitely be wrong.

[Incogneeto]

The popo here carry 2 doses,one for the "Consumer" (that's what they are called now)

And one for themselves.

The majority of the drug busts they confiscate, dump and ticket.

On the police report they are referred as "Society Victim of "

The real drug busts are mostly Schedule I , II, III, or IV Tabs. Then they go to Jail.

Pretty sure Meth is our #1 Society Victim.

[RobertELee]

There are hundreds of water quality sensors in most municipal water supplies that I imagine if anything did get put in it wouldn't make it very far before alarms went off and systems shut down. IMO that's the last thing I'd worry about.

They don't test for everything under the sun. Here's what my municipality tests for.
https://en.calameo.com/read/005549230d3dfb1dce4a5">https://en.calameo.com/read/005549230d3dfb1dce4a5

Narcotics? I'll venture to say probably not. That said, I could definitely be wrong.

Correct, they likely aren't specifically testing for narcotics. However the standard sensors can show a change

 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm%3Fp_download_id%3D511465&ved=2ahUKEwjk5fqVxaLzAhWRbs0KHUD7CtkQFnoECC4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1N95MGp9VdIvh9-5lTeuRv">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... h9-5lTeuRv">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm%3Fp_download_id%3D511465&ved=2ahUKEwjk5fqVxaLzAhWRbs0KHUD7CtkQFnoECC4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1N95MGp9VdIvh9-5lTeuRv

And that paper is 12 years old, I imagine  there are now sensors that can detect various chemicals.