Typically, one doesn't buy speedballs ready-mixed from the dealer, but fixes the shot himself, adding the cocaine to a spoonful of dissolved junk (in this case Fentanyl).
Fentanyl isn't dangerous to judicious junkies, especially those used to using opiates like Dilaudid, with doses measured in fractions of a milligram. (Fentanyl is dosed in micrograms, which makes the grinding and shooting of bootleg Mexican pills so dangerous and in need of careful titration on the part of a user.)
Why don't you ask River Phoenix? That was probably a good old-fashioned Speed Ball.
Saint Floyd was probably hopped up on a Goofball, which is meth and fentanyl.
I don't know why Speed Balls are popular, but they seem to have fans.
Typically, one doesn't buy speedballs ready-mixed from the dealer, but fixes the shot himself, adding the cocaine to a spoonful of dissolved junk (in this case Fentanyl).
Fentanyl isn't dangerous to judicious junkies, especially those used to using opiates like Dilaudid, with doses measured in fractions of a milligram. (Fentanyl is dosed in micrograms, which makes the grinding and shooting of bootleg Mexican pills so dangerous and in need of careful titration on the part of a user.)