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Seeing as New Year’s Eve is nearly here, and people will be partying their faces off on the last night of the year/decade, I figured it was really important to get this public service announcement out there:

DON’T do cocaine.

Honestly, I have no problem with recreational drug use. I’ve definitely done my fair share, but fentanyl laced coke keeps killing people in the Bay Area. Here’s an article in the Chronicle from last week about Aaron Hall and Jamez Manning, two young men in the music scene who just accidentally OD’d from what is suspected to be fentanyl laced cocaine. Here’s another article from the Chronicle about the rise in fentanyl as powerful contaminant of other street drugs, which is “leading people to overdose because they didn’t even know they were taking it”. And here’s yet another article on the subject from the East Bay Times.

Abraham over at Bay Area Memes posted something about not doing blow because it’s laced with fentanyl and killing people and a paramedic in Oakland responded with the following:

Chicken John nailed it though in his post on Facebook. It includes advice from a Bay Area nurse: