Posted on 06/01/2022 2:03:14 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
The fentanyl experience is devastating—and it’s hollowing out families and communities all across our country. News accounts shows drug deaths have spiked everywhere. The year I lost my sister, 2016, more than 65,000 people overdosed and died. That’s skyrocketed to more than 100,000 people during the 12-month period ending April 2021. That’s nearly 300 people each day. It takes only 2 milligrams to be lethal. That’s not even enough to cover the year on the front of the penny in your pocket.
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl. It killed more people last year than suicide, car accidents, or gun violence; and the number of fatalities has more than doubled in 30 states in just two years, more than tripled in 15 states, and increased almost five fold in six states.
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Are these hard core addicts or just occasional users? Forgive my naivete, but could never understand drug use
I lost my best friend to fentanyl 3 months ago...we aren’t the only ones. Why is that deaths from people getting shot is headline news while deaths from people overdosing on fentanyl is seen as just another statistic?
As for me, I don’t look on them as overdoses. To me it is a poisoning and should be called that. I don’t think the people who took those drugs even knew fentanyl was in them. It is outright murder.
Other than alcohol and caffeine, I have never been able to try any other intoxicant, not even marijuana or tobacco.
Most overdoeses are from people buying drugs off the street with those drugs being laced with fentanyl. I’d say the majority of cases are not from hard core addicts but occasional users of other recreational drugs who have no idea those drugs are laced with fentanyl until it’s too late.
I agree. These cases should be called poisoning and treated as murder. In the case of my buddy, the cops didn’t even bother investigating who he got the laced drugs from. They would be investigating if someone had shot him, yet poisoning from fentanyl is considered accidental and not murder...that needs to change.
Same here except for Coffee, less tha ten cups my entire life never developed a taste for it.
Rather than the occasional special op against druggies we should declare a true war.
We should send full armies into Mexico And Colombia and simultaneously wipe out all the cartels with or without the cooperation of their governments.
I was totally against this campaign, from the right panel, but knowing that I could not prevent my friend from doing drugs, if he had a test strip and actually used it, it would have saved his life or at least I hope it would have. I disagree strongly with the message from the left panel image though.
This would be the real war on drugs.
“Are these hard core addicts or just occasional users?”
There aren’t really many “occasional users” of opiates.
Some of them died after the very first exposure (accidental or deliberate); regular users can develop a tolerance of up to 100 times compared to the tiny amount fatal to naive users, but even they eventually succumb to excess fentanyl mixed into street drugs.
Really? The amount of fentanyl coming through the border is negligible, compared to what China and the PLA are moving right through our harbors and air freight -- as long-delayed revenge for the Opium Wars.
You want it to stop? Punch China in its dirty godless confucian face early and often, and they will get the idea -- that is the one and only thing they understand.
“I have never been able to try any other intoxicant”
The way you worded that it sounds like you wanted to but nobody offered :D
More people die from fentanyl overdose every week than have died from all mass showings since 2009.
Let that sink in. Think about the media and gun control. Think about the open border. If politicians wanted to save people, Americans, they wouldn’t be concerned about firearms, they would be concerned about Fentanyl.
Not a peep from the Democrats about the Fentanyl genocide. Why do you think they want the guns but don’t say a word about the drugs?
I went to the hospital a few weeks back for pancreatitis. It’s very painful and asked for a painkiller. As the IV was hookup he said he’s giving me Fentanyl. I mention that is the drug that’s killing thousand in our nation. He said that it has been long used for pain and is given in smaller doses than what is on the streets. It stopped the pain and I’m here talking about it. It’s all about the dosage, purity, and abuse...the same as heroin and morphine.
I believe it’s being added to everything.
I’m sorry to hear that. I lost my oldest and dearest friend to it back in January.
He’d been having a problem giving up the booze, had some other issues going on in his life.
I knew about his drinking problem, I thought he’d been trying to get help for that.
I hadn’t heard from him in a while until I got a call from his sister and she told me the sad news. It was a fentanyl overdose. He did it deliberately.
I sure miss him.
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