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.

Owen Rooney. Canada. Grand Forks, BC

I will be posting shortly on the situation involving the Rooney Family and the events of August 2010 following the Shambala Music Festival and the disappearance of Owen Rooney from Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada after having received a vicious beating in nearby Christina Lake, BC.

Addendum:
I've posted before about the ever-present tension between the authorities conducting a search and the family members of those who are missing. This is common and understandable. John Ramsey wanted the roads and airports closed. One Texas family wanted to venture into rugged territory and do it so prematurely that any scent clues would be destroyed before searchers and search dogs arrived. In the United States, it is usually the county sheriff who is charged with balancing the safety of the searchers with the likelihood of the mission's success.

I've posted about the natural desire of family members to seek an alternative that allows them an emotionally acceptable situation. In my analysis of the Fifth Estate segment on Owen Rooney I contrasted the Fifth Estate's award winning segment on Eric Wilson from decades earlier. The former cop who was extremely blunt with the Wilson family was indeed on the right track. He was not tactful but neither was he prone to give false assurances or instill a false hope.

In the Fifth Estate segment Sharon Rooney is quoted as saying "when we've done all that we can do". It would seem that the family is likely to soon acknowledge that they have reached that point. The Horsemen have not been totally inactive but their focus has been relatively local. We wish them good luck, but they will earn no rousing cheers on this case. The cheers will go to the close-knit loving family and the friends of Owen Rooney.