Posted on 05/26/2023 8:11:37 AM PDT by rktman
In 2023, we are just now entering the deadliest phase of the opioid crisis. Driven by a powerful synthetic opioid known as fentanyl, this is not just another chapter in the pharmaceutical and over-prescription scandal.
During the last three years, prescription opioids were dispensed at the lowest levels in nearly 15 years, while overdose deaths have skyrocketed to record levels. In 2021, the United States hit a grim new milestone of 107,000 drug overdose deaths, with fentanyl accounting for nearly 70% of those deaths. Like so many other states, Minnesota, where I served as sheriff of its largest county, was not immune from this trend. Over that same period, the Gopher State reported a 44% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths year over year, spiking to an all-time high of 978 deaths.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), pure synthetic fentanyl can be legally prescribed for pain relief. But it must be used carefully as it is 100 times more potent than morphine, and even the smallest trace amount can be lethal. The real culprit for the shocking increase in overdose deaths, however, is the illicit synthetic fentanyl being trafficked across our borders, peddled on urban street corners, traded in suburban malls, or posted in unmarked packages sent from across the globe and delivered to our doorsteps. In fact, for the first time in 2021, more fentanyl was seized at the border than heroin, and in 2022, the DEA seized 379 million doses of illicit synthetic fentanyl in pill and powder form.
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They've been trying to replicate Viet Nam, hippies, drug craze, VVAW and anti-war sentiment and attitude ever since it finally evolved out of itself and society became a little more chaotic and uncontrollable.
While we were involved with a legitimate blossoming political awareness, THEY kind'a looked at us askew and tried to figure out what to do with us and what can they DO with this new American era.
They've been at it since the clinton era and it still hasn't "taken"
Allow the opiate addicts to buy diluted methadone in four two-quart bottles every four days.
It is simply not possible to stop the import of fentanyl by law enforcement interception.
Treated junkies relapse.
They fall somewhat lower each time.
Typically until they are six feet under.
William Jefferson Clinton, you have an addiction problem.
Yes, I don’t see a babe.
The culprits are ignorant parents and politicians that do not understand the overwhelming power of addiction.
And it is getting mixed with other drugs. I was making a business deal right before the pandemic started. We signed a big deal and the other business owner “celebrated” by going to Vegas and buying some cocaine. It was laced with fentanyl and he ODd two nights after we all signed a deal. Needless to say had I known I would not have signed a deal with his organization.
And think how much death and destruction Saint Floyd of Fentanyl has caused since his OD.
“Growing and selling opium was entirely legal. In 1840, and for decades afterwards, growing, selling and using opium was entirely legal in places like Turkey, Persia and (British) India. In India it was not only legal but in the 1830s and 1840s opium from the British East India Company’s Bengal opium monopoly was quite normally auctioned in Calcutta and shipped to many places, for instance to the Dutch in the East Indies. Opium was legal in Britain itself, which imported some 200,000 pounds of it from India in that same year. It continued in normal use, especially in the form of laudanum, and was used by many distinguished British and European people, including Prime Minister Gladstone in Britain and Prince Bismarck in Germany, was openly sold to the families of wounded soldiers during World War I and traces of laudanum could be found in British over-the-counter cold medicines as late as the 1950s.”
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/uploads/files/Working-Papers-Archives/CES_WP136.pdf
“By 1860, and much more so by 1900, the Chinese were growing at home many times as much opium as the British, or anyone else, could import. What is more, they kept on doing it, in increasing quantities and virtually throughout all the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century.”
“KEEP making noise , rattle the cage, let them know we know.”
Democratic election thieves and vote buyers don’t care that we know.
New York, Seattle and San Francisco are obviously falling apart.
Our southern border is wide open.
Anyone using street drugs at this point has a death wish
Read the book The Opium Eaters
Drug addiction is a terrible thing ….legal or not
If not for fentanyl there would be fewer undesirables offing themselves through their bad choices.
Nobody has been seen lately explaining the teachings of Chairman Mao from his Little Red Book to groups of young people under the old oak tree in the quadrangle. Those times have passed.
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