Mikael Tirado was one of an estimated 93,331 overdose fatalities in the United States last year – an all-time high. Nearly five times the murder rate, the deadly overdose toll was primarily caused by fentanyl, a highly lethal synthetic opioid. It’s manufactured mostly by Mexican cartels with ingredients imported from China, and then smuggled over the southwestern U.S. border. Fentanyl has been arriving in larger quantities each year since at least 2016.
Monday, November 08, 2021
Commentary: The Migrant Surge at the Southern Border Fuels Massive American Fentanyl Overdoses
On a September afternoon, Allyssia Solorio wondered why her energetic young brother hadn’t emerged from his bedroom in their Sacramento, Calif., home. When she opened his door, she saw 23-year-old Mikael leaning back on his bed with his legs dangling over the side. She rushed to her brother and shook him, but to no avail. He was dead. A counterfeit pharmaceutical pill laced with illicit fentanyl had killed him.
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Our daughter-in-law lost her brother to this crap last year. But no mean tweets anymore.
ReplyDeleteAnd they don't need more border patrol agents. What they need to do is start shooting anyone who crosses. Immigrant, cartel mule, wayward fisherman. I guarantee a few dead bodies floating down the river and 99% of the illegals would suddenly decide to turn around and go back home. Stop playing nice. And dig up Black Jack and send him south of the border to take care of the cartels.
That's my kind of border policy, Don!
DeleteJa8
Go back home and forego the chance to win $450,000 ?
DeleteAre you crazy?
Anyone caught with fentanyl illegally should be shot or hanged, their choice. Then see what happens.
DeleteNope, force fed the shit. Same with anyone caught with heroin or cocaine or any other street drug. No prosecution if you take all of it at once, and survive.
DeleteDo people know they are buying fentanyl, or is is being used to "spice up" other drugs?
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read and a couple people that I've talked to that would know, it's mixed in with other drugs, the most common being meth for some reason - a hillbilly speedball.
DeleteI'm sure most people don't know it's there, hence the surge in overdoses. They'll mix it in with anything. Heroin appears to be the most prevalent in my area, then pills, then cocaine.
DeleteI wonder how many seniors, looking to save some money, have encountered these counterfeit pills. If you find granny dead in bed one day, you don't rush for an autopsy.
Over 90% of the planet's illegal fentanyl comes from one area of China. When one realizes how the Chinese Communist Party has such a stranglehold on everything, it is clear this is done with their support. Couple this with the fact the Cartels are now openly working with the Chinese.
ReplyDeleteNow, with that in mind, a nuclear strike should slow the flow of illegal fentanyl down for a few weeks.
But China "banned" the manufacture of Fentanyl. SARC /
ReplyDeleteThe factories just kept making the ingredients in larger quantities and shipped them to Mexico as legitimate chemicals, to be made into Fentanyl there.
Also note that China and India are producing the chemical precursors to make an (apparently) more powerful form of Meth, which does not require ephenephrine as a base chemical.
Apparently, the new stuff has a greater effect on psychosis, and takes up to a year of abstention to fully leave the body.
IOW until death. :-{
John in Indy
THe vast majority of illegal Fentanyl originates in China. It's being sent here as part of the CCP's ongoing underground war against the USA....a war they've been waging since the 70's.
ReplyDeleteThere's more than one way to genocide the population! Hey!
ReplyDeleteNews today in Sacramento is that the cartels are running the homeless camps. Rent, drugs, etc.
ReplyDeleteNews today in Sacramento is that the cartels are running the homeless camps. Rent, drugs, etc.
ReplyDelete