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Fentanyl patches put in waste water?
Topic Started: May 14 2013, 07:53 PM (284 Views)
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An 'always happy and bubbly' Missouri girl has died after she pulled one of her grandmother's powerful painkiller patches out of the trash and put it on her leg.

Destiny Spitler, 12, was found lifeless in her bed in Clinton on Saturday morning and investigators called to the scene discovered a Fentanyl patch on her thigh.

The girl's grandmother, Diana Spitler, uses the medication, which is up to 100 times stronger than morphine and 40 times stronger than heroin, to manage her back pain but instead of flushing the used patch down the toilet, as instructed, she put it in the bin.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324554/Destiny-Spitler-death-Familys-heartbreak-girl-12-dies-grandmas-used-painkiller-patch-leg.html#ixzz2TJmsbYr1
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Does this get into the drinking water?
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If they're flushed as the article says she should have been doing (which I wouldn't agree with unless the patches are biodegradable) it could be assumed there would be some seepage of the residual medication into the water supply. But it could also be assumed that the purification processes that municipal water systems undertake should take care of it, or at the minimum reduce the levels so low that they would present no danger to the public.
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