• @sbv
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    516 months ago

    “You don’t think of medical professionals doing this, but 10% of medical professionals divert drugs. 10%… That’s a lot.”

    That’s an unbelievably high percentage.

    Googling around, I see

    One in 10 healthcare workers misuse drugs (or alcohol) during their career, which is similar to the percentage seen in the general population; however, the diversion trend is slightly different in healthcare, as workers in this setting are more likely to misuse prescription drugs rather than illicit drugs.

    Which is very different from the quote in the article.

    • @[email protected]
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      176 months ago

      I thought she was injecting them with water because she didn’t like them.

      She was such an incompetent nurse that she switch the fentanyl for water because she wanted to steal the fentanyl? WTF. Literally anyone could go find that shit on the street in an hour if they wanted to. Hope this mass murderer gets the book thrown at them.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 months ago

        Our demand for nurses is high, and a key part to our current solution is to under-train them, and lower our standards for what it takes to be a nurse, to be about to pump out more at a fast rate.

        Source: know a dozen nurses, some who have graduated as recently as this year. The questions in the exams they take are nothing short of ridiculous oftentimes, they’re just checking for a pulse, two brain cells, and a very vague gist of medical concepts behind the minimum on what it takes to know to perform the manual tasks of their job

        Why do you think there were so many anti-vax nurses? It’s ignorance paired with the ego inflation they get from people assuming they are more knowledgeable than they are.

      • FfaerieOxide
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        86 months ago

        Literally anyone could go find that shit on the street in an hour if they wanted to.

        Presumably because of people like her.

        • @Corkyskog
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          36 months ago

          Lol no. You aren’t finding liquid medical grade fetanyl on the streets.

          • FfaerieOxide
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            26 months ago

            You aren’t finding liquid medical grade fetanyl on the streets.

            Not if nurses keep getting themselves arrested.

            • @Corkyskog
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              46 months ago

              The vast majority of them have a personal problem. Ganked Fent liquid would be really hard to sell…

              • FfaerieOxide
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                The vast majority of them have a personal problem.

                I mean if I kept getting arrested, I’d consider it a problem, too.

                • @Corkyskog
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                  36 months ago

                  I guess, but you’re just directing words. All I am saying is any nurse who is doing this is almost certainly using it themselves or supplying their significant other. It’s just not even a practical way to use Fentanyl at home.

                  I don’t actually think most people are injecting Fentanyl or Heroin these days, the bigger group snorts it and when worse comes to worse they inject to get the even quicker rush, and with a better bioadvalability.

  • FauxPseudo
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    6 months ago

    Water is more dangerous than fentanyl. Got it.

    Edit: I meant this is a joke. Apparently this joke about water was a little too dry.

    • @[email protected]
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      196 months ago

      Water is more dangerous then fent, in your blood.

      So when you cut yourself or scrape your knee, dont rinse with water! Rinse with fentanyl. Its safer.

      • dtc
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        86 months ago

        Got a list or map of the fentanyl springs in my area?

    • admiralteal
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      76 months ago

      Non-sterile tap water being injected to people who are pretty much definitionally very sick.

      If you did that to a regular, healthy adult? Likely no big deal, though I certainly wouldn’t recommend it. But to someone, say, recovering from a major surgery who’s in a lot of pain? Extremely bad plan.

  • @[email protected]
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    346 months ago

    So these 9 people could be alive if this nurse/fentanyl thief injected them with saline instead of tap water .

    • Jo Miran
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      166 months ago

      The hospital probably tracks saline bags, but the nurse could have at least invested $1.50 on a bottle of distilled water.

    • FfaerieOxide
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      So these 9 people could be alive if this nurse/fentanyl thief injected them with saline instead of tap water .

      We don’t know that. The fact they died after the nurse pulled this fuckshit does not indicate they would not have died if she hadn’t.

      Probably would have went easier though.

  • theodewere
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    306 months ago

    she didn’t just kill 10 people, she caused 10 people to die in agony

  • peopleproblems
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    156 months ago

    I’ve heard about this happening several times over the years, and back in 2022 I had surgery where the fentanyl just didn’t work afterword.

    Now I’m wondering if there wasn’t any fentanyl that I was dosed with at all. I’d guess regular saline. 10% of diversions is enormous.

  • @[email protected]
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    126 months ago

    TAP water?

    I don’t even DRINK the tap water my city gives out, as I know it causes stomach aches. If a stomach struggles with something, the thought of putting it into someone’s veins… yeesh.

    • @casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer
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      76 months ago

      idk why you are getting downvoted. Tap water in a lot of parts of America is polluted from old plumbing, this is established fact. That’s why most people have filters.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        Depends on where you are at, but the bigger issue isn’t minerals or even lead. It’s the microbiology both in the water and general environment.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      Don’t know why you got downvoted, the article literally states tap water isn’t sterile and will cause major problems.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        I suspect it’s people in areas with decent tap water using their personal anecdotes as evidence that tap water doesn’t give stomach aches.