Episode 954 The Hidden Dangers of Fentanyl: A Personal Plea

Hi, everyone. It's a good morning from Alice Springs. This is Murray Stewart, your host and presenter. This is episode 954 of Blind Magic in Alice Springs.

Fentanyl. Have you heard of it? It's an evil drug. It truly is. My plea to you on this episode is to make yourself aware of the drug fentanyl. Yes, bring yourself up to date. Know what's going on with fentanyl because it is used legally here in Australia in some hospitals. It is a very, very powerful painkiller, but it's highly addictive, extremely addictive. It's many times more powerful than heroin. It's often used in preference to morphine.

When I was at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, recovering from quintuple bypass, they administered this drug to me. Fentanyl in America last year killed 80,000 people. It did, 80,000. And to get the bells ringing for you on this one, during the Vietnam War, there were 57,000 people killed. Fentanyl has been responsible for the death of 80,000 people over the past year. It has also become a street drug of choice in America, smuggled in by the drug lords of Mexico in particular.

I suffered hallucinations beyond belief. They were vivid. They were nightmarish. They were horror film-like. And they caused a lot of discourse between myself and my visiting friends and my then partner. When I got home and the drug dropped me off, it led to suicidal thoughts, which is how a lot of the victims in America have passed away. The suicide rates in the towns where this drug has become a drug of choice have gone up by multiple hundreds of percent. It's simply an awful drug.

So as I said, my plea is that every one of you can get yourself up to date with the drug fentanyl, particularly if you are going to a hospital for elective surgery of any type. I know what I'm going to do if I'm ever offered the drug again. I'm going to run for the hills. There is no way known will I ever allow and give consent to have that drug administered to me ever again. Yeah, not again. Not again. It's simply not going to happen in my lifetime. I won't allow it.

Just get yourself up to date, folks. Get yourself up to date. You should never give consent to any drug that you are unsure of or that you feel you need to research further. Of course, often you're not necessarily in control of all of your faculties when you are asked or when you are administered these drugs. I certainly wasn't. No, I was in a lot of pain and a lot of distress. And it was a very urgent and volatile situation. But wow! Did fentanyl have a negative effect on me? Oh, yes, it did. It is a dreadful drug. But as I say, it's not just about fentanyl. It's about any drug that you give consent to. You must be doing it with clear knowledge and clear information. And if you're not sure, ask the questions that need to be asked. Absolutely. It's your body. It's your life. So ask the questions.

Okay, folks, I know that that is a bit heavy, but that's my plea today. Ask the questions, do the research. And when it comes to fentanyl, you want to have a very, very good reason as to why you would even consider saying yes, because I certainly will not be saying yes to fentanyl ever again. Over and out everyone that has been episode 954 a blind magic communications production.