Wednesday, December 21, 2022

The Surging Fentanyl Scourge in the U.S.

This is a very serious subject and can not be ignored! It can not be left to the health care system or the morgues/cemeteries to deal with it!

It is a very potent drug ("up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine" CDC). Just "Two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size, tolerance and past usage." (DEA). There have been numerous reports of all kinds of things have been laced with Fentanyl and so on ...

"... Illicit fentanyl, primarily manufactured in foreign clandestine labs and smuggled into the United States through Mexico, is being distributed across the country and sold on the illegal drug market.  Fentanyl is being mixed in with other illicit drugs to increase the potency of the drug, sold as powders and nasal sprays, and increasingly pressed into pills made to look like legitimate prescription opioids. ..." (DEA)

Why is the U.S. not exposing these "foreign clandestine labs" and trying harder to shut them down? Are they in China, North Korea, Iran, Russia?

If it is true that most of this drug is smuggled into the U.S. via criminals based in Mexico, then why is the U.S. not putting more pressure on Mexico to stop this!!! What is actually Mexico and the current President AML Obrador doing about this? In the past, this would have been a cause for war!

"The US Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than 379 million doses of illegal fentanyl this year—“enough deadly doses of fentanyl to kill every American,” the DEA’s chief said, as the agency struggles to clamp down on the drug’s staggering proliferation. ...
The flood of fentanyl correlates to a surge of US deaths: Deaths related to the drug have spiked 94% since 2019 ..."

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