EXCLUSIVE: 'They have blood on their hands': Liberal California parents whose children died from fentanyl overdoses blame 'extreme left' policies for making America's drug crisis WORSE

Daily Mail ^ | 6/11/23 | Miles Dilworth

[Libloather]

Alexandra Capelouto was found slumped over on her bed by her mother, Christine, two days before Christmas.

The 20-year-old sociology major at Arizona State University, who had returned home to Temecula, California on her winter break in 2019, had taken what she thought was a batch of oxycodone to help her sleep.

Instead, it was fentanyl, the deadly drug destroying lives across America. The man who sold it to her, Brandon Michael McDowell, 23, was jailed for nine years in February.

But Alexandra's grieving father, Matt Capelouto, believes the state's liberal lawmakers also 'have blood on their hands'.

America's fentanyl crisis was born in the mid-1990s, when pharmaceutical companies falsely claimed 'revolutionary' pills would put an end to chronic pain without addiction.

When regulators finally cracked down on that lie and the use of prescription opioids to treat chronic pain, addicts took to the streets in search of heroin, creating an unprecedented health crisis.

But by the mid 2010s, dealers began cutting other substances with fentanyl, which is much cheaper and around fifty times more potent than heroin.

In 2022, the drug caused around three quarters of roughly 110,000 overdose deaths, - meaning fentanyl is killing around 2,000 Americans a week. Of those, roughly 110 are Californians - approximately 5.5 percent.

The crisis has ravaged many liberal states, creating deep divides within the Democratic Party on how to tackle it.

Matt Capelouto claims efforts by moderate state lawmakers to hold dealers to account are repeatedly blocked by a minority of 'extreme, far-left' Democrats who hold 'too much power'.

In San Francisco, fatal overdoses are already up by 41 percent in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2022, with the vast majority of deaths involving fentanyl.

[Libloather]

But its mayor, London Breed, is pumping $18.5million into opening three 'safe consumption' sites that critics say keep addicts hooked on drugs, instead of treating them.

Sit back and relax. It's all part of the plan. RATS voted for this. Enjoy.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Democrats follow the Soros doctrine. The more drugs, the more uninformed voters. Better yet, more dead voters who always vote Democrat.

[Jonty30]

They will never say that they didn’t know, because we all told them.

[Jim Noble]

America's fentanyl crisis was born in the mid-1990s, when pharmaceutical companies falsely claimed 'revolutionary' pills would put an end to chronic pain without addiction. When regulators finally cracked down on that lie and the use of prescription opioids to treat chronic pain, addicts took to the streets in search of heroin, creating an unprecedented health crisis.

America is a factory for creating addicts.

[Brasky]

Oops, I thought twas oxy!
Sad story, for sure. Most of us are at zero risk of ODing on any drug let alone fent. Meanwhile, China imports Tik Tok, Covid, and fent into the US and no one says boo.

[Jonty30]

We, as a society, have chosen the materialistic and life without meaning path. This is what is killing us.

[Brian Griffin]

Each dealer might buy a rat and test each batch using their rat before distributing it.

Hey, man, Willard died.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[Brian Griffin]

“pharmaceutical companies falsely claimed ‘revolutionary’ pills would put an end to chronic pain without addiction.”

The Tenth Edition of The Merck Index of 1983 clearly states for entry 6827, oxycodone:

“Caution: Abuses leads to habituation or addiction.”

[Brian Griffin]

“Calif Med. 1963 Aug; 99(2): 127–130.
PMCID: PMC1515192
PMID: 13971810
The Addiction Potential of Oxycodone (Percodan®)
Edward R. Bloomquist
Copyright and License information Disclaimer
Abstract
Dihydrohydroxycodeinone (oxycodone, Percodan®) is a useful analgesic. Its addiction potential, however, is comparable to that of morphine. This fact should be considered when it is prescribed. Because of increasing numbers of addicts to this drug in the State of California, the California Medical Association Committee on Dangerous Drugs and the House of Delegates has recommended that oxycodone-containing drugs be returned to the triplicate prescription list as they were originally in 1949. This recommendation was incorporated in Senate Bill 385, which failed to pass the legislature.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1515192/

[Brian Griffin]

Abuse

[mmichaels1970]

Most of us are at zero risk of ODing on any drug let alone fent.

But our kids or grandkids may be.

I think laws need to crack down on the ADDICTS in addition to dealers. And I think smugglers should be executed at the border.

[ronniesgal]

not if your kids or grands don’t touch recreational drugs.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And these parents no doubt will still vote Democrap.

[moovova]

You (parents) voted for it.

[Socon-Econ]

Permissive, values-free, uninvolved parenting is the main cause.

[GOPJ]

White liberal ‘elites’ have blood on their hands for lots of the horrible policeis they’ve pushed on ‘the people’ in order to make themselves look good in their own eyes.

Liberal’elites’ are white trash pretending to be decent people.

[nonliberal]

Wonder who they voted for.

[pas]

“batch of oxycodone to help her sleep.” Seriously?

[blueunicorn6]

They don’t care.