As a result, cutting the drug supply — and only cutting supply — will reduce deaths and addiction. The evidence for this conclusion is manifest; ignoring it will cost countless more lives.
Another key quote from article:
Conversely, during the George W. Bush Administration, when the supply of cocaine, crack, and meth began declining, use declined.
So, Obama-nut (or Obama-mess or Obama-Jell-o) admin caused a spike in the Opioid deaths.
Now Demon-Cratic US Senators and Demon-Cratic Congress Critters are blocking the Border Wall. According to this article, Columbia and Mexico are key illegal drug suppliers OUTSIDE the US for the OPIOID EPIDEMIC.
This is an important justification for the BORDER WALL, in my opinion.
If we do not build that damn wall, and Mexico truly goes full socialist, whatever problems we think we have now on the Southern border will octuple. Anyone thinking about this and taking a sober view had better understand this. The exodus of people from Mexico will grossly overwhelm any capacity we have to deal with illegal immigrants, now or imagined. This is 100% predictable as far as I’m concerned.
They are conflating lawful requirements for painkillers with unlawful and highly addictive opiods such as meth.
China supplies the raw material.
They have been and are now angry and eager for retribution over what they call their “100 Years of Humiliation”, an era of Chinese history in which they (correctly) see themselves as having been victimized by the west; Opium Wars, etc.
So it’s payback, basically.
And the Mexies see us as land thieves.
So it’s international revenge, basically.
I’m saying this not because I approve of their views but because I’m dubious they’ll change this even a little bit.
The DEA has horribly abused the Controlled Substance Act to go after doctors in the same way as drug dealers. The CSA was not intended to do this; The CSA was intended to deal with drug trafficking and illicit drug use not legal opioid prescriptions.
The DOJ and DEA have illegally taken upon themselves to determine whether opioids used in medical practice are used for a legitimate MEDICAL purpose. This is a massive over-reach on 2 levels,
1. Bureaucrats are not trained as licensed doctors and should attempt to not practice medicine.
2. The Federal government should not intrude on the State’s right to regulate medical practices.
You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.
Huh.
I thought the ‘opioid epidemic’ was due to sick medical patients being pumped full of unwanted prescription drugs being over-prescribed by the evil healthcare system so the doctor’s children could go to Ivy League colleges.
So it is all coming over the border then?
“cutting the drug supply”
They can’t even stop thousands of teenage Hondurans from getting across the border.
It’s always going to be easier to smuggle Fentanyl than a live human being.
Addiction, like human homosexuality, is a normal part of the human condition for small percentages of the population.
The emphasis must be supplying the addicts with FDA-regulated liquid solutions of the drug based on their ability to tolerate opioids.
If an addict dies, I blame the politicians and the parents unwilling to accept the addiction of their children.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.”
The combination of buprenorphine/naloxone can keep an addict off street drugs, if the addict wants to.
Simply make buprenorphine/naloxone prescriptions have unlimited refills.
One $250 doctor visit and the addict never has to see an addiction treatment doctor again until the addict is ready to come off opiates with a methadone taper.
Methadone, tapered over a month or two, can wean an addict off opiates.
The US has tried to wage war on drugs for about 109 years.
All that has accomplished is to fill prisons with dark-skinned people.
From the “moderate” bill:
“AVAILABILITY OF BORDER WALL SYSTEM FUNDS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the amount appropriated in subsection (a)(1)—
(A) $2,241,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2018;
(B) $1,808,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2019;
(C) $1,715,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2020;
(D) $2,140,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2021;
(E) $1,735,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2022;
(F) $1,746,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2023;
(G) $1,776,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2024;
(H) $1,746,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2025; and
(I) $1,718,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2026.
(2) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—An amount made available under subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), or (I) of paragraph (1) shall remain available for five years after the date specified in that subparagraph.”
You might see the border wall completed September 31, 2031.
Frankly, I don’t care about anyone dying from illegal drugs. That was their choice. That said, anyone, here legally or not, who gives children drugs should be punished to the full extent of the law.
We need to wall to keep our country safe, period.
Read Underground Empire by Mills. He maintained that taking down drug trafficking organizations in their entirety by multi-leveled RICO prosecutions and asset confiscation was the way to stop the drug trade.
The mans an idiot. His background has nothing to do with substance abuse. Based on this fools observations we would still have prohibition
Now Mexico has a President hand picked by the cartels...so that should tell us something about what to expect. Time for the WALL.
Yes most of the opioids come right across this border. Mexico does as much to stop the drugs as they do to stop illegals.
Stopping the Drug Epidemic
How?
By legalizing POT?
What could go wrong?
Decimalize drugs and the Prices Blumit. When prices nose drives the infrastructure to deliver drugs falls apart. When the Infrastructure falls apart the Quality and Quantity Collapses.
The DEA is nothing but Quality Control for the Drug Cartels. If the DEA didn’t exist, the Drug Cartels would create one. Adults should be able to use the drug they want, be it Alcohol, grass, or Meth.
I am sad that addicts die from the drugs they take, but I am tired of giving up liberty in the name of the War on Drugs.
Legalize All Of It. Let Darwin sort out the addicts.
BUILD THE WALL..!!!