The opioid addiction crisis in the U.S. is a huge scandal! Much more needs to be done on the supply and demand side!
The open southern border is a disgrace and a failure! Impeach the 46th President!
Why are Mexican governments and the Communist Party of China getting away with this and not held accountable?
E.g. the supply of chemical precursors sourced from China could be seen as form of warfare by attrition. Would the Communist Party of China tolerate such widespread opioid addiction in China or would the communist party do nothing about it?
From the Executive Summary:
"Cumulatively, since 1999, drug overdoses have killed approximately 1 million Americans. ...
Even worse is that the United States has never experienced the level of drug overdose fatalities seen right now. In just the 12 months between June 2020 and May 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdose—more than twice the number of U.S. traffic fatalities or gun-violence deaths during that period. Some two-thirds of these deaths - about 170 fatalities each day, primarily among those ages 18 to 45 - involved synthetic opioids. The primary driver of the opioid epidemic today is illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times more potent than heroin. ...
Mexico is the principal source of this illicit fentanyl and its analogues today.* In Mexico, cartels manufacture these poisons in clandestine laboratories with ingredients—precursor chemicals—sourced largely from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Because illicit fentanyl is so powerful and such a small amount goes such a long way, traffickers conceal hard-to-detect quantities in packages, in vehicles, and on persons and smuggle the drug across the U.S.–Mexico border. It is difficult to interdict given that just a small physical amount of this potent drug isenough to satisfy U.S. demand, making it highly profitable for traffickers and dealers. ..."
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