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Eastern Ontario city says 23 people overdosed since Tuesday afternoon Overdoses are rising — but resources to help are scarce, Belleville, Ont., mayor says Neil Ellis, mayor of Belleville, Ont., says his community doesn't have nearly the resources they need as overdoses rise. When people in his community are hit with an overdose, he says, they are 'admitted to the hospital and put back out on the streets.' Mike Juby was outside Bridge Street United Church in Belleville, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon when people suddenly started dropping to the sidewalk all around him. There were "ambulances left, right and centre"...

The Arellano Felix Cartel willingly decided to bend over for Mexican and American lawmen this morning with the release of numerous narco messages prohibiting the sale of fentanyl. Their sudden about-face is consistent with what the Cartel de Sinaloa have also done in recent weeks in order to draw law enforcement pressure away. Needless to say their communiques went through the usual hypocritical motions of prohibiting the very poison that they didn’t have a problem selling to anyone before. Due to the strong epidemic suffered by our country and our neighboring country. And while being faithful to our principles. We...

SNIP The federal government says the highly addictive and lethal synthetic drug has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation. While help is available, it is outpaced by the magnitude of misery on the streets. Homeless addicts in Los Angeles can be seen sprawled on sidewalks or passed out in alleys. Others peddle tiny doses and puffs of smoke to the desperate seeking their next high.

Another senseless death thanks most likely to Fauci.

A new and lethal strain of synthetic heroin resulted in five overdose deaths in Minnesota this year, and officials believe another five undetermined deaths will also be linked to the drug. The five cases are the first confirmed in-state deaths caused by carfentanil, a drug from China that is 100 times more potent than the already dangerous fentanyl. Carfentanil is federally approved to immobilize large animals such as elephants for surgery, and two salt-sized specks of the opioid can cause instant death, a local emergency room doctor said Thursday. ... Investigators are working locally and nationally to find the source...