Darwin Award Candidates??

[arminnie]

The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways

I've been reading about these terrible deaths in Chicago from bad heroin. I had no clue that people were doing this on purpose. I thought it was just someone spiking the heroin to be malicious.

CHICAGO -- The largest clue that something had changed in Chicago's vibrant heroin market came in February, when police found a dozen users sprawled unconscious in one place. One day in April, there were dozens more.

Toxicologists at the Cook County morgue discovered fentanyl, a powerful painkiller many times stronger than morphine, in the bodies of addicts who died. A small amount of fentanyl in a dose of heroin adds a pop that many users have come to crave.

Despite the obvious dangers, the quest for a bigger and better high is driving users to find the more potent fentanyl-heroin blend. Universal laws of marketing and sales are similarly driving the pushers to supply it, authorities said.