Notting Hill Festival's "acid" attacks

In the UK females do risk having caustic substances thrown in their face. Only a relativel few incidents and often involving prior relationships with Islamic males who do not tolerate freedom or independence being demonstrated by female acquaintances.

The recent faux attacks on the final day of the Notting Hill Festival seemed to have involved only water and were apparently filmed for their "entertainment" value. Passersby observing the prank did not hesitate to run and in so doing there were some relatively minor trampling incidents.

It must have been a terrifying few moments before the victim realized that although she was soakec, her face was not burning and so the substance could not really be acid.

Fentanyl and First Responders is HOGWASH.

These news reports of police, paramedics, bystanders being overcome by unintended exposure to minute amounts of fentanyl are all HOGWASH.

It remains: 80 percent of all self-identified addicts are not addicts and can go 'cold turkey' if they want or if they have to such as by being incarcerated and denied drug diversion or rehabilitation status.

Most 'overdose' deaths are not due to an overdose but due to a minute contaminant such as anthrax spores. Street doses tend not to vary that much and are not really that strong. It takes alot of heroin to intentionally kill someone in a hospital setting.

Most relapses are due to social circumstances wherein Rehab Graduates return to same neighborhood, same friends, same drug culture, same despair producing circumstances of hopeless under employment issues. Twelve step programs teach helplessness and are used as re-cruiting tools by dealers who want to re-establish a customer base. Rehab houses are often able to bill ten thousand dollars a week per patient and have no incentive to actually get anyone off drugs.