Talk:Etorphine/@comment-216.110.237.132-20120520030109

I've done an embarassing amount of research on etorphine before this point, and I'd have to say that getting a human dose of etorphine isn't something Dexter could really do. Depending on where you're reading etorphine is anywhere from 1,000-80,000 times stronger than morphine, a drug with an IV dosage of roughly 30mg depending on where you look, your body weight, opiate tolerance etc. but let's just say it's 30mg for IV morphine. That would mean that to get a dose of etorphine as weak as one medical human IV dose of morphine, you would need to dilute it to somewhere between 375 nanograms and 30 micrograms, also meaning that you have to figure out somehow where between 1 and 80 times the lowest accepted dosage is the point it can knock humans out without killing them. There's a black market for Etorphine, finding it isn't impossible by a long shot but I don't think machines that can tell you how much stuff weighs to the nanogram along with the skills required to keep their measurements accurate is something Dexter can pull off.