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Fentanyl, Carfentanil, and the Moscow Theater Siege
from Freedom and Fentanyl · #64
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minThe conversation shifts into fentanyl and carfentanil, the potency escalation of opioids, and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis where Russian forces used a fentanyl-based gas that killed many hostages.
- 10:54Tim has family members and friends struggling with fentanyl addiction.
- 11:15Heroin swept through Long Island with people dying from fentanyl-laced doses.
- 11:40The documented shift from prescription Oxycontin to heroin as pills run out and insurance lapses.
- 12:11Public officials warn of a new spike moving from heroin to carfentanyl, a Chinese synthetic opioid.
- 12:28Tim questions why drug manufacturers keep making fentanyl more potent when existing versions already work.
- 12:58Russian mob was cutting fentanyl patches and selling them, including lollipop formulations meant for terminal cancer patients being abused recreationally.
- 13:41The 1998 Moscow theater hostage siege: Russian SWAT teams gassed the building with carfentanil to subdue the terrorists.
- 14:04Carfentanil found in the victims' bloodstreams caused respiratory failure, but CPR could have saved them had anyone known what was used.
- 14:23The rescue operation failed because mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wasn't administered to those incapacitated by the gas.
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