-John Deaux
Thursday, August 26, 2021
The Fentanyl Flood Into The US: Why Can't We Make It Stop?
About 11 times every hour, about 250 times a day, an American citizen dies of a drug overdose. The most frequent culprit is fentanyl. The most popular mode of delivery is fentanyl-laced heroin, fentanyl mixed with cocaine, or illegally produced OxyContin pain pills containing fentanyl. And it’s not just hardcore addicts who are dying.
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Unless the people are being given the drug against their will, I have no sympathy. Anyone with half a brain knows drugs are not good for you and might kill you. Yes I smoked pot in my younger years, but even way back then I had no desire to do the LSD, heroine, etc. That's totally nuts. Now the US gov't is trying to push a drug on me I don't want and it's probably more lethal than fentanyl.
ReplyDeleteIf there is a WMD out there that will destroy this country this is it. It's easy to get on a high horse and blah, blah,blah but if it hits home, your grandchild, nephew or niece or of a close friend your words will not be the same. Morality is a bitch sometimes
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ReplyDeleteCHHHHIIIIIII NNNNNAAAAAA
Because it's the ChiComs attacking us indirectly. The ChiCom factories that make the precursors and the outright drugs that the MexCartels are selling are made by state-owned and run factories, from slave factories to army factories.
ReplyDeleteThe ChiComs have been attacking us since before the Meth explosion, with cheap precursors for cocaine processing. Then they came out with cheap precursors for Meth, and then started just outright making meth and selling it to the Cartels. Now it's Fentanyl, Oxycontin, and every other horror drug that is popular on the streets.
Wake up, everyone. The ChiComs have been waging war against American citizens for over 30 years.
Immana echo Oldvets reply.
ReplyDeleteIt is a self-solving problem.
Why do we want it to stop?
ReplyDeleteJust change the word 'overdose' to 'successful suicide'.
Problem solved.
It's not a "successful suicide", it's a "retro-active abortion".
DeleteThe massive amount of Fentanyl being snuggled into America is just a PART of China's ongoing asymmetric war against us.....a war they've been waging for at least 3 decades.
ReplyDeleteI love it when Capitalism is employed by Communists. The Chinks got a great profitable home delivery service called DrugHub. They've partnered up with the Beaner distributors and are using eco-friendly taco fueled vehicles known as mules.
ReplyDeletea lot longer than that. they sent weapons and LOTS OF AMMO down to the vc and nva back in the day. and now it is drugs they sending to destroy us with. when will half or more of this country wake up and realize they fucking hate us ? back in the 1970-80's it was tiwan that sent
ReplyDeletecheap tools and stuff here. after billy boy in 95 the chinks have flooded here and the world with cheap shit. they under sold shit so low that no nation could complete with them.
that why you do not see iron mills or anything big made here anymore or else where.
it was their plan all along.
I'm with you 100% but lets add The Chosin Reservoir to that list. Hit us hard and split like a bunch of cowards. We should have taken China off the map then.
DeleteIf drugs were legal, people would have a better chance of knowing what they were getting which might mean the number of overdose deaths would go down. However, if drugs were legal, the profit margin would collapse and drug lords would no longer be able to afford their solid gold Cadillacs and we can't have that.
ReplyDeleteAnd we have the winner! We could sell pharmaceutical grade drugs with known ingredients and dosages for pennies on the dollar. But that would put a lot of cops, judges, and prison guards out of work so it will never happen.
DeleteExcept if drugs were legal, illegal dealers would just sell better drugs at cheaper rates than the legal ones. Legal drugs would come with taxes. They would also come with potentcy limits, etc.
DeleteCalifornia is losing money with (mostly, at least) legal weed. Gummint can fuck anything up. Other than democide; that's the one thing they're good at.
Fa Cube Itches
DeleteAbsofuckinlootly.
Look how legalizing alcohol caused the mob to disappear, for instance.
yeah, well, don't do that shit n you won't die. even i know that. i equate it to russian roulette with five cylinders loaded. totally not my problem...as to why we can't stop i? because the govt doesn't want to. more money n more power in the "crisis".
ReplyDelete50 years of the 'war on drugs' and it gets worse by the minute. Someone (gov) is doing a very shitty job.
Delete"The 'war on drugs' is over. Drugs won."
DeleteOriginal Grandpa
Seems we should be running out of addicts at some point then.
ReplyDeleteStop doing what is clearly not working. Stop rescuing overdoses; you took it, you own it. Stop driving the prices up- you want to buy it, fine: do so- no risk of arrest, no risk to the seller. Price plummets. Profits to criminals plummet, since if it's not illegal it's not on price support. Huge savings on both money and disastrous cop behavior- no drug units, no temptation, etc. Focus on real crime, not makebelieve crime (you steal to buy drugs, we'll get you; you just buy drugs, have fun).
ReplyDeleteWithin two years, probably one, everybody gets the lesson: overdose, die. Steal, go to jail. Profits tank. And defective personalities disappear. Net gain: huge.
Stop enabling. Stop the price supports.
Let the drug abuses die The war on drugs was created to shuttle money to the CIA and Area 51.
ReplyDeleteThis comment section brought to you by the short bus of society. Mention harmful illegal drugs and watch the druggies come out. Like moths to a light.
ReplyDeleteLibertarians are proof that you can have a high IQ, good intentions, and generally upright moral character. And still be a complete fucking idiot.
DeleteA simple tactical nuke to Beijing and a good missile strike on the Three Gorges Dam would curtail almost 90% of the world's fentanyl.
ReplyDeleteExecute dealers in the deserts and leave their rotting corpses as a message.
ReplyDeleteThe DEA almost single handedly increased the drug overdoses a number of years ago, when they cracked down on what they called the over use of narcotic pain medication. It made it so that legitimate pain patients had to suffer and be completely cut off from the narcotic pain medications that they had been taking, some for many years, without any problems.
ReplyDeleteFor those who were able to continue taking their pain meds, they had to drive to their doctors office, get a written prescription, for only one week, and then drive to their pharmacy, get it filled, then drive home. All to be done again the next week. It has gotten a bit easier now, but is still difficult, and you are looked at as a drug abuser, if you dare to ask for pain medication for a legitimate purpose.
So when so many legitimate pain patients were kicked off the narcotics, and were suffering from pain, real pain, from perhaps a broken back in their youth, or bone on bone in a knee, it sometimes happened that they had a friend whose grandmother didn't use all of the pain pills that she was prescribed each month, and needed extra cash, and so the pain patient bought them from her, for 3$ a pill, 30 pills a month or sometimes 60 pills a month, depending on how many grandma had left over. It helped both of them out, didn't hurt anyone, and society was in no way the worse off because of it.
Then someone in the apartment overheard the transaction, was a Karen, and called the cops. And now, you have 2 old women facing felony charges, for nothing more than trying to live a life worthwhile, without either being in constant pain or having to decide to eat or to feed her cat that month, a cat that was the grandmothers only companion.
Illegal drugs are not always about the crack head lying in the gutter, stealing your DVD player or laptop, to pawn in order to get more crack. For those of us who live in constant pain, unable to get narcotic pain meds due to the refusal of the medical establishments rule changes, where a few years ago, we were treated for pain with dignity and still caution about addiction, it is not an easy life. Walk in my shoes, on the days where my 40 years ago broken back, along with chronic, near daily migraine both flare up, were throwing up makes the top of my head hurt even more, and you have some idea why I am disgusted with our medical community. And although I have tried medical marijuana, with no success, I have never attempted to access anything stronger, and never will. The people that are involved with that tend to be the less savory, and are in dangerous places that I refuse to go. If there were a safe and legal way to order online, certain medicines, at a reasonable price, with known safety and efficacy, I would go that route. I won't do anything that makes me a felon, or gets me on yet another naughty list. I learned by accident that I am already on naughty lists of area medical groups around, so my reputation precedes me.
Perfectly Stated!
DeleteWhy would we want to make it stop?
ReplyDeleteSame as, why do we fret about the NAPA's killing each other?
Social Darwinism at work.
Same reason that coke, heroin, meth, etc. are all readily available: people want it. Where there's a market, someone will supply it. And if it's an illegal market, gummint will take a nice cut to look the other way.
ReplyDeleteSadly, this one is completely deliberate. Where is most of the fentanyl (and its components) sourced? China. How does it get into the US? The porous southern border. The problem is epidemic because official federal policy is designed to facilitate letting it flow into the Souther US.
ReplyDeleteI have the solution:
ReplyDeleteRound up all the junkies.
Chain them to the floors of long, large warehouses and let them detox.
Every day of every week, march a fifth grade class the entire length of the warehouse to show them what happens to the majority of the people that take that first, fateful, fatal step.
Rinse.
Repeat.