Heroin Is Vanishing as Fentanyl Swamps Streets

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 18, 2019 | Abby Goodnough

[artichokegrower]

BALTIMORE — Heroin has ravaged this city since the early 1960s, fueling desperation and crime that remain endemic in many neighborhoods. But lately, despite heroin’s long, deep history here, users say it has become nearly impossible to find.

[artichokegrower]

traffickers here and in Mexico can order fentanyl from China

Another justification for President Trump's trade war with China. Sad how the Democrats ignore that the Chinese are killing their constituents.

[ConservativeMind]

What’s the attraction to take a pain killer?

[farming pharmer]

China’s revenge for opium?

[Drango]

No heroin....but plenty of poop on the streets.

[central_va]

It’s all part of the plan to de industrialize the west and turn the idled workforce into drug addicts.

[wally_bert]

Dead voters are the best voters as far as the commie-dems are concerned.

[Junk Silver]

“What’s the attraction to take a pain killer?”

Personally I won’t even take aspirin unless I am in agony. Unfortunately taking strong pain killers such as fentanyl creates such intense feelings of euphoria that people’s brains get “re-wired” and decide that this chemical is critical to survival.

I tend towards a libertarian point of view in many things, but I think drugs such as fentanyl have to be kept off the streets, even if every single dealer has to be publicly executed to make that happen.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What’s the attraction to take a pain killer?

The alleviation of stress, which is a powerful motivating force in persons who are inordinately subject to stress. Stress causes physical discomfort and is highly damaging to the organism. Its reduction becomes a form of pleasure, to which all organisms are naturally drawn.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

What’s the attraction to take a pain killer?

It's an opioid, and it's more potent than any street heroin. Like heroin, it causes an intense short-term high and like heroin, it's highly addictive.

I have no idea what the answer is to the opioid crisis - these drugs are needed for people suffering serious pain (such as cancer patients), but they're seriously addictive. Apparently medicine has not found effective pain-relieving drugs that don't cause pleasure and are highly addictive.

[Maranatha7757]

Yes. And the Chinese know that they will fall into their hands like ripe fruit. Communists are not stupid.Soros Open Society. Conquer from within.

[mylife]

Few know of the opium rebellion.

[Grampa Dave]

Sad how the Democrats ignore that the Chinese are killing their constituents. If they don't kill them in their mothers's wombs by abortion, they have ways to kill them later.

[FreedomPoster]

Spot on, I think.

[tellw]

Fentanyl increases dopamine production in the brain, which gives a sense of pleasure.

[farming pharmer]

Few know of the opium rebellion.

Kids definitely need more world history these days.

[bethelgrad]

Good question. Every time I’ve taken prescription pain meds I feel nauseous and loopy. I wouldn’t describe it as enjoyable enough to repeat after the pain subsided

[LouAvul]

The flip side is that somebody is being paid by the cartels to keep the borders open so that it's business as usual.

I'd love to round up the usual suspects, scrutinize their lifestyle and examine their tax returns to expose the inconsistencies.

[LouAvul]

And add to the above: to figure out how somebody in congress who makes less than $200,000 a year can amass estates/fortunes worth millions.

[Karma_Sherab]

Sad how the Democrats ignore that the Chinese are killing their constituents.

Why should they care? they will still be voting democrat

[Lurker]

“China’s revenge for opium?”

Bingo. They have long memories. People mocked LaRouche when he said the Queen Of England was the worlds biggest drug dealer. But he was only off by a century or so.

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