He was found to have 11 ng/ml of fentanyl in his blood. LD50 for mice is 2.9, and the observed average in overdosed dead humans (skewed high due to being able to take a lot more than a lethal dose before death) is around 9, with 3 being sufficient to show overdose as cause of death.
Yeah, regular users of opioids can take high doses that would kill someone who takes the same dose without built-up tolerance. Junkies who OD or fentanyl usually have a high tolerance, which skews statistics.
Be it under prescription for moderate and high pain, or recreational users / jukies chasing euphoria, that tolerance quickly lowers if you stop taking them.
Which is why junkies who go clean for a while can accidentally kill themselves by taking their former shitfacing dose.
Probably.
He was found to have 11 ng/ml of fentanyl in his blood. LD50 for mice is 2.9, and the observed average in overdosed dead humans (skewed high due to being able to take a lot more than a lethal dose before death) is around 9, with 3 being sufficient to show overdose as cause of death.
Yeah, regular users of opioids can take high doses that would kill someone who takes the same dose without built-up tolerance. Junkies who OD or fentanyl usually have a high tolerance, which skews statistics.
Be it under prescription for moderate and high pain, or recreational users / jukies chasing euphoria, that tolerance quickly lowers if you stop taking them.
Which is why junkies who go clean for a while can accidentally kill themselves by taking their former shitfacing dose.