This appeared last week:
‘Rocked to our core’: Warning over son’s dark web laced ‘oxycodone’ death
A young Australian tradie felt he had to turn to the dark web for pain medication, but the pills were laced with a deadly unregulated opioid.
August 18, 2024 - 11:37AM
NewsWire
The parents of a teenage Melbourne tradie are raising the alarm about purchasing medicine online after their son’s overdose death on a synthetic opioid.
Jetson Gordon, 18, died in April 2022 after an overdose of what he thought was oxycodone, but was actually laced with a dangerous, potent synthetic opioid called nitazene.
Mr Gordon bought the pills on the dark web and his parents later found the package in his bedroom.
The health authorities in multiple Australian states have issued alerts about various types of nitazenes in recent years, in cases where the potent substances have been sold as or cut into MDMA, ketamine, and meth, as well as heroin or pills sold illegally as actual prescription opioids.
Mr Gordon’s parents told the ABC their son “had an unfortunate experience around pharmaceuticals and prescribed medication”, so he decided to purchase oxycodone on the dark web.
The 18-year-old was enjoying his carpentry apprenticeship but stressed about living out of home for the first time, his parents said, having moved from regional New South Wales to Melbourne.
“It’s completely rocked us to our core … it’s life-changing,” his stepmother Emily Berry said.
“I don’t think he knew of any risks in doing it or he wouldn’t have done it,” she said.
Nitazenes are regularly tens-of-times more potent than fentanyl, and hundreds-times the strength of morphine. This dramatically increases the chances of the user becoming unconscious and stopping breathing.
Doctors found Mr Gordon died from n-pyrrolidino etonitazene toxicity, ABC reported.
After Mr Gordon’s flatmates found him dead, the young man’s parents found a package from the UK in his bedroom; there were 24 pills inside, and half a pill in his bed.
The pills were stamped with an “M”, as some legally-produced oxycodone is.
British authorities say nitazenes are being made in China and shipped through the UK.
The Gordon family says authorities have told them it will be impossible to trace the dark web pills.
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We know from the ACT pill-testing experience that people will use drug-testing services if they are available but when it comes to it, Governments really could not actually care less if the odd patient dies because there is not ‘pill-testing’ available.
If they did
care they would actually do something with the scale and reach needed – it is as easy as that! They won't because 'Mr/Mrs Self-righteous' would apparently prefer these 'druggies' just die!
It is hard to work out just which ‘Circle of Hell’ best suits these politicians and their flunky bureaucrats but it should be a hot one!!!
I really find this sort of hypocrisy both infuriating and terribly sad. What about actually doing what you suggest you will to get elected?
Any clever ideas to provoke change?
David.
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