In the space of a week, four people found dead in Boras. Police suspect the deadly drug fentanyl is behind the deaths.
– According to me it is absolutely the most dangerous thing you can test, says Jan Johansson, investigation officer of the police in Boras.
The drug is described as dangerous than metadom and heroin.
– It’s like Russian roulette, says Jan Johansson.
Niklas Lindroth, drug coordinator at the police in Alingsås Photo: Niklas Lindroth
on Wednesday evening, a young man was found dead in his home in Borås. Police suspect that drugs are behind the death.
This is the fourth drug-related victim found dead in Borås in just one week. Going back a few weeks there is another victim.
Common to all five is that there are young, between 25 and 35 years old, male. All but one of the police, known addiction problems.
– Several are known for pill abuse and some cannabis abuse can but one of these were completely unknown to us. Him we have never heard of before, says Jan Johansson, investigation officer of the police in Boras.
Exactly what caused their death is unclear.
– The analyzes are not in any of the cases clear, says Bengt-Erik Bjärenstam, police inspector at the police in Boras and continue.
– We do not really know what it is about. Sometimes one of their abuse a body at an early stage so hard corroded. It need not be the drugs themselves at this time that has made it has died. It can be a living is hard influence that makes you die.
Jan Johansson tells However, the police suspect that fentanyl is behind the deaths, which also Borås Tidning wrote about.
– in two of them, we found the packaging to Fentanyl powder. At least two of these young victims, we suspect that it really is because of fentanyl.
That there are so many die in such a short time is unusual. One explanation may be that they got wind of the right fentanyl and decided to try it.
– I think that is something that has spread on the forums, it provides good power and that there are good things . Since people are talking to each other and read about it. So there are several who try it and then we will have deaths, says Jan Johansson.
Niklas Lindroth, drug coordinator at the police in Alingsås, has a theory.
– It is obvious that if it is so that if there are five who have died, it’s an epidemic with fentany. Then it got into a lot of potent fentanyl and so do people use it. If I may speculate, it’s probably not patch without powder which they have received.
Jan Johansson says that in one case seen that the fentanyl been using the nasal spray – which is a new approach.
– If you take that way, it has very fast effect. It goes right up into the brain.
Fentanyl can produce several effects , in addition to an intoxication so the effect can not occur completely or stop the heart and you die.
– There are receptors in the brain that these opioids joins. They include the part of the brain that controls breathing. That’s the problem. You get a respiratory depression simply, you stop breathing and die. You go to sleep very deeply and do not wake up again, says Niklas Lindroth
What effect fentanyl get depends on how clean it is.
– When you order your things you do not know if it is diluted . Maybe it’s clean and you take the same dose as you tipped off about the forum it stops the heart. And how much a person can handle a lot depends on body construction also. It’s Russian roulette, says Jan Johansson.
Police have been through it before, it will be a wave of deaths that can be linked to a particular drug.
– It’s happened before they try strong cancer drugs. They start smoking and injecting it and suddenly we have lot of deaths. But it is högts unusual that there are so many in such a short time, says Jan Johansson.
Just fentanyl is extremely strong.
– Fentanyl is so strong that it is impossible the dose right, says Jan Johansson and Niklas Lindroth agrees.
– It is up to hundred times stronger than morphine. Talk fentanyl powder as an active dose is about three grains of salt around. It is a very potent synthetic opiate.
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This makes it extremely dangerous.
– Together with heroin and methadone and other opiates are classic fentany are in the top in terms of mortality. it is a very dangerous substances.
Niklas Lindroth says that they actually use fentanyl for pain relief in medicine. For example, cancer patients receive fentanyl as a patch that secretes constant painkillers.
– This is also where the abuse comes in. They look like the nicotine patch. They are also very potent after taking it from a person. A used fentanyl patch contains two to four times the lethal dose of fentany.
Most people who use the fentanyl are hardcore addicts, so it is getting that start with this.
– Some of the it is so difficult to dose is that those who use this builds up a tolerance. You can build a fairly strong tolerance. A dose that is lethal for a person can be an inveterate heroin addict cope without him dying, says Niklas Lindroth.
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