Deerfield-News.com-Deerfield Beach,Fl-Have you driven down US1 and seen Florida House a lot of real estate,have you seen the proliferation of rehab residential housing across Deerfield Beach.Homeowners associations have gone to court and in many cases lost.Each part of the city of Deerfield, west side Deer Creek for example and east side including the beach and the cove are full of rehab housing.No neighborhood is immune the city really needs to take a hard look at this situation.For additional revenue enhancers like impact fees,a bigger tax base via improved real estate development.Allowing construction of apartments where the investor can make money and compete against rehab facility owners who seem to have an economic and business advantage in property owners selling to them as a result of zoning.
This week which is no different than any other week an OD happened locally,apparently in Pompano and Facebook friend William Broadway witnessed BSO first responders administering Narcan.(Photos above From William Broadway)
We understand Not In My Back Yard or NIMBY when we all want the undesired project to be built somewhere else.Those suffering from addiction who seek help or whose family intervenes to get them help is a good thing.There must be rehab centers somewhere if we want to eliminate the opioid epidemic.It is the proliferation and our zoning laws that is drawing those in that industry to Deerfield Beach.
In addition to street heroin and fentanyl (The conventional spelling is fentanyl.
fen·ta·nyl
[ fen-t uh-nil]
NOUN [PHARMACOLOGY.]
1.
a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C22H28N2O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers. Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.
Now law enforcement is faced with “Gray Death” a new deadly drug that can also put first responders at risk from just inhaling it’s residue.
Gray death is a street drug in the United States. Samples have been found to contain the designer drug U-47700, heroin, fentanyl and opioids including carfentanil.[1] It gets its name from having a similar appearance to concrete mixing powder.[2] It is taken by injection, smoking, snorting, or swallowing it.[3] No analytical results have ever been published confirming the existence of the mixture.[citation needed]
As it is much more potent than heroin,[3], reversing an overdose frequently requires multiple doses of naloxone, whereas a typical Heroin overdose typically needs one dose.(Wikipedia)
This is part one of Opioid addiction and Rehabs in Deerfield Beach.
