Fentanyl's deathly grip on America: Cheap
synthetic opioid flooding US street drug
supply is dragging down life expectancy,
turning our cities into Zombielands and
killing 1,500 people a WEEK
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Mansur Shaheen
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/28/2023 3:17:54 AM
The US is in the midst of a catastrophic fentanyl epidemic that is causing an eye-watering number of deaths and tearing the fabric of American society apart.
The ultra-strong opioid being cut with virtually every street drug in the country killed a record 75,000 Americans in 2021, the equivalent of 1,500 lives lost every week.
Fentanyl - which is 100 times more potent than morphine - started off as a cheap and potent alternative to heroin and was used by only the most hardcore drug addicts in the US, who mainly injected it or smoked it through a pipe.
But its cheap manufacturing costs and potency have made it the go-to cutting agent
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 1/28/2023 5:42:33 AM (No. 1389101)
There's a tidy little class of emergency medical, psychology, pharmaceutical, law enforcement, and judicial workers perpetuating the cottage industry of Kensington, Philadelphia's 4-block open air addict colony. All on the unmetered taxpayer dime. In high school, we learned the term for this phenomenon, a positive feedback loop.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissGrits 1/28/2023 6:27:20 AM (No. 1389116)
For sure is it is a great tragedy for this many people to have so little purpose. But, # 1, they are by choice drug users whether or not they get a drug laced with something deadly. And # 2, in being so, they play Russian roulette every time they take a hit. At 1500 a week, they will all soon be gone! And knowing what we know, any who would then step up to take their place are even bigger fools!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 1/28/2023 6:39:10 AM (No. 1389124)
As I have been saying for years, it’s time to bring back Operation Phoenix, and I don’t mean Arizona. Any Vietnam vets agree with me?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 1/28/2023 7:01:20 AM (No. 1389127)
Good go.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 1/28/2023 7:05:41 AM (No. 1389131)
1500 a week committing suicide - Solving the drug problem God's way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 1/28/2023 7:25:21 AM (No. 1389135)
My daddy used to call this, " Culling the herd."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TCloud 1/28/2023 7:29:06 AM (No. 1389140)
And a high percentage of illegal drug users are Conservative?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/28/2023 7:29:15 AM (No. 1389141)
China is destroying us without firing a shot. Open borders = dead Americans.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 1/28/2023 7:33:02 AM (No. 1389144)
Lucky they will still be allowed to cast their ballots.
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It certainly helps the medical industry to have some alternate explanation for the spike in the death rate.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/28/2023 7:43:42 AM (No. 1389151)
They could supply all this they want…it’s the users who are the problem sustaining demand.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Yuban 1/28/2023 8:19:55 AM (No. 1389178)
Gotta make room for our new southern border folk.
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Personally, I just do not care. Drug users are worthless to the continuation of this society and their deaths only represent a positive for the country. You cannot die from using this drug if you do not take illegal drugs.....it is just that simple.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
franq 1/28/2023 8:31:29 AM (No. 1389189)
I have not taken the vax. Nor will I ever take the vax. But every young death is not because of the vax. Fentanyl is extremely potent and could be responsible for many deaths.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/28/2023 8:41:48 AM (No. 1389198)
Here's the question which desperately needs an answer - - - - -
Does fentanyl kill anyone who doesn't ingest it?
When it does - - then I'll start to get worried. Until then - - I have no sympathy for the dopes who do ingest it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/28/2023 9:27:51 AM (No. 1389250)
I should feel guilty for a certain sense of not giving a rat's patoot that fentanyl is thinning the herd of useless drug addicts in America but I can't shake it. Eventually the market will dry up. Especially irritating are those sobbing parents who come on TV as guests so they can tell their story of how sweet littly Johnny only bought some Xanex off the Internet and didn't know it was laced with fentanyl. Condoning minor drug abuse leads to major drug abuse and eventually death - every time.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/28/2023 9:32:57 AM (No. 1389255)
I agree completely #3, it would cure every problem we have with Mexico and points south. Unfortunately I don't think the current US Military has too many like us left in their ranks today.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/28/2023 9:42:58 AM (No. 1389271)
Fentanyl is now being used in hospitals and by paramedics instead of morphine. It's cheaper.
The people who are dying from it are killing themselves, just the same as putting a gun to their heads and the Administration is obviously all for it, since they refuse to stop it at it's entrance on the border.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 1/28/2023 9:57:54 AM (No. 1389281)
I guess I should be upset to a certain point about all these deaths due to fentanyl, but most of these deaths occurred to people who were already abusing drugs and not the best and brightest.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/28/2023 9:57:56 AM (No. 1389282)
Too many people are making a killing "treating" drug addicts for the problem to go away - the makers of Narcan, the rehab community that "treats" addicts multiple times for tens of thousands of dollars a pop, the social workers who hand out "free" needles, free food, and staff safe injection zones. It just goes on and on, spiraling down the drain until their "customers" suceed in killing themselves.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Dannee 1/28/2023 10:26:32 AM (No. 1389317)
The addicts are only a small part of the illegal drug dependency. Consider all the other people' most of whom don't even use illegal drugs:
Law enforcement dedicated to arresting suppliers, pushers, etc.
Jailers
Social workers
Rehab facilities and all their staff
Free food providers, delivery persons, distribution systems
Clean up crews
The list goes on and on
There is a very simple solution to the drug problem, but too many people are dependent on illegal drugs to implement it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2023 10:52:47 AM (No. 1389348)
We should be making it more difficult to get these illegal drugs into the country, certainly. Perhaps sending all the captured fentanyl to Chinese gangs to be sold on the street in China would be a good plan.
The lesson is don't take illegal drugs. I have never been too worried about what junkies do to themselves. There are choices to be made in life. Choose drugs and you are likely to die.
Your choice.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
FJB 1/28/2023 10:57:27 AM (No. 1389355)
You can bet China Joe's getting his usual cut.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 1/28/2023 11:35:59 AM (No. 1389387)
Maybe give rebirth to Nancy Reagan's successful policy.
JUST SAY NO.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
thomthomp 1/28/2023 1:50:23 PM (No. 1389459)
Can't repeat it often enough, if a foreign power did to the United States what the Biden Administration is doing it would be considered acts of war. More people need to realize that we now have a government that is inimical to American traditions and the American way of life and at war with the American people.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/28/2023 7:45:33 PM (No. 1389613)
Thank the 60's music for the drug culture.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/28/2023 10:23:14 PM (No. 1389686)
Is anyone being FORCED to take this stuff?
As far as I know, every person taking this stuff is doing so of their own free will.
They choose to take this stuff...... illegal pills from who-knows-where, and no idea what it contains.
If they die, that's their choice.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
3XALADY 1/29/2023 3:35:59 PM (No. 1390135)
#26 I think the Viet Nam war had a lot to do with bringing drugs into this country. Service men started using them there and brought it home.
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