for display only
Big Blue Interactive The Corner Forum  
Back to the Corner

Archived Thread

NFT: Former Angels employee charged with providing fentanyl to...

Mike in St. Louis : 8/7/2020 6:49 pm
Tyler Skaggs in overdose death...story in L.A.Times...on my phone so can’t post but claim is that this is/was a common occurrence...
See if this works...  
Mike in St. Louis : 8/7/2020 6:50 pm : link
.
Link - ( New Window )
What a tragedy  
Gregorio : 8/8/2020 12:46 pm : link
didn't have to happen. The lure of opioids is difficult to resist, I guess.
not defending dealing  
pjcas18 : 8/8/2020 12:52 pm : link
drugs or Kay - he should face the consequences of his actions, but seems a little like scapegoating.

Skaggs was a grown man and was asking for 30MG oxy pills. As someone who can speak from experience, that's a fucking lot of oxycodone.
RE: not defending dealing  
Sonic Youth : 8/8/2020 2:16 pm : link
In comment 14946022 pjcas18 said:
Quote:
drugs or Kay - he should face the consequences of his actions, but seems a little like scapegoating.

Skaggs was a grown man and was asking for 30MG oxy pills. As someone who can speak from experience, that's a fucking lot of oxycodone.
Thats the standard they come in. I was unfortunately addicted to painkillers and people will shoot past feeling anything at 30 mgs very, very quickly. I'm talking a handful of times of abusing them.
RE: RE: not defending dealing  
Zeke's Alibi : 8/8/2020 2:21 pm : link
In comment 14946063 Sonic Youth said:
Quote:
In comment 14946022 pjcas18 said:


Quote:


drugs or Kay - he should face the consequences of his actions, but seems a little like scapegoating.

Skaggs was a grown man and was asking for 30MG oxy pills. As someone who can speak from experience, that's a fucking lot of oxycodone.

Thats the standard they come in. I was unfortunately addicted to painkillers and people will shoot past feeling anything at 30 mgs very, very quickly. I'm talking a handful of times of abusing them.


I'm sure he's confusing oxy and hydrocodone. Experience?
Nope  
pjcas18 : 8/8/2020 4:46 pm : link
not confusing anything.

Oxycodone in it's most commonly prescribed form is percocets and comes in 5mg, 7.5mg, and 10mg typically. 20mg, 30mg, and higher doses are much more rare. Hydrocodone is most commonly prescribed as vicodin.

Oxycodone and Hydrocodone get combined with acetaminophen to make percocet and vicodin respectively.

After routine surgery most doctors will prescribe 5mg percocet (oxycodone/acetaminophen) and advise patients to take 1 to 2 tablets every 4-6 hours as needed for pain.

A 30mg dose is for cancer patients or burn victims.

I don't think doctors are prescribing pure oxycodone any longer so it's purely recreational/black market based on my experience.
Pj  
MookGiants : 8/8/2020 4:50 pm : link
He gave him pills laced with fentanyl, which caused his death.

They're not scapegoating this guy. The feds are doing everything they can to find the dealers of these fentanyl laced pills that are killing tons of people.

This angels employee was no different than a drug dealer on the street corner. He wasn't selling his vicodin script, he was selling oxycodone laced with fentanyl, hell may have been all fentanyl. And that's what killed Skaggs, and kills thousands of others.
RE: Pj  
pjcas18 : 8/8/2020 4:58 pm : link
In comment 14946151 MookGiants said:
Quote:
He gave him pills laced with fentanyl, which caused his death.

They're not scapegoating this guy. The feds are doing everything they can to find the dealers of these fentanyl laced pills that are killing tons of people.

This angels employee was no different than a drug dealer on the street corner. He wasn't selling his vicodin script, he was selling oxycodone laced with fentanyl, hell may have been all fentanyl. And that's what killed Skaggs, and kills thousands of others.


I know what Kay (the Angels clubhouse guy) was doing, and I said he should pay the price for what he did and he even agrees with that and is cooperating.

My point is Skaggs knew he wasn't getting prescription drugs and once you willingly buy street drugs you are playing Russian roulette. Skaggs did that. No one forced him to but people are making it seem like he's a victim. To an extent he is, but also to an extent he killed himself.

It sounds like this was pretty routine for him if you read about it. He was an addict and while it's a disease, he's not blameless. that was my point. Maybe scapegoat was the wrong word, I just think Skaggs deserves blame in this.
RE: not defending dealing  
Carson53 : 8/9/2020 12:49 pm : link
In comment 14946022 pjcas18 said:
Quote:
drugs or Kay - he should face the consequences of his actions, but seems a little like scapegoating.

Skaggs was a grown man and was asking for 30MG oxy pills. As someone who can speak from experience, that's a fucking lot of oxycodone.
.

He was 'helping' out Skaggs for quite a while in this regard, it wasn't the first time. He was the
Director of Communications for the Angels, hope they throw the book at him.
Back to the Corner