Poison Pill Murder: Man Charged after Allegedly Giving Rice Football Star Blain Badgett Deadly Pill

From: A Texas Reader
Sent: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 9:07
Subject: Man charged after allegedly giving Rice football star Blain Badgett deadly pill

https://abc13.com/sports/man-charged-in-death-of-rice-football-star-blain-padgett-/4417739/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfentanil

Carfentanil - Wikipedia Carfentanil or carfentanyl is an analog of the synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl. For pain relief, a unit of carfentanil is 100 times as potent as the same amount of fentanyl, 5,000 times as potent as a unit of heroin and 10,000 times as potent as a unit of morphine.This is despite only having 14-135 times higher affinity for the μ receptor It is important to note that lethality and potency ... en.wikipedia.org

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/carfentanil-bust-canada-fentanyl-opioid-crisis-dangers

'Dose as small as a grain of sand can kill you': alarm ... A forensic scientist processes seized narcotics, which have become increasingly dangerous as more are laced with deadly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil. www.theguardian.com

"An amount as small as a grain of sand can kill you," Dr Karen Grimsrud, Alberta's chief medical officer, told reporters after traces of carfentanil were found in the bodies of two men who had overdosed. "Carfentanil is about 100 times more toxic than fentanyl and about 10,000 times more toxic than morphine."