Posted on 07/14/2020 7:48:33 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...The American Medical Association said it was “greatly concerned” at reported increases in opioid overdoses in more than 30 states although it will be months before hard data is available. Public health officials from Kentucky to Florida, Texas and Colorado have recorded surges in opioid deaths as the economic and social anxieties created by the Covid-19 pandemic prove fertile ground for addiction. In addition, Brumage said significant numbers of people have fallen out of treatment programmes as support networks have been yanked away by social distancing orders.
“I’m a firm adherent to the idea that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection. Clearly, what we have lost with the pandemic is a loss of connection,” he said.
“Many of the people who were using the programme either didn’t have broadband or they didn’t have cellphone service, especially those who were homeless. They just fell out of the programme,” he said.
The resurgence was not unforeseen. In March, as Covid-19 escalated, Donald Trump warned about the human toll beyond lives claimed by the virus. “You’re going to have tremendous suicides, but you know what you’re going to have more than anything else? Drug addiction...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
OK, WHO is supplying these opiods to the United States?
I have a list of possible suspects, and WHO is on first.
George Floyd, suffering from both COVID and Fentanyl.
RE: I have a list of possible suspects, and WHO is on first.
OK, I didn’t mean WHO as in the Organization. But where the SOURCE is from ....
Guardian actually gave Trump credit for something.
I don't know
THIRD BASE!
How can there be an increase in opioid overdoses
More and more people are losing their prescriptions to hydrocodone
A non-opioid pain killer that is not addictive? Just lets a person feel happy? Qualude? Discontinued. Magic Mushrooms? Mostly not legal. Booze? Gives hangovers. There outta be something somewhere that could work.
No, Who’s on first, What’s on second, and I Don’t Know’s on third!
Anyway, there is no doubt that massive drug smuggling into the U.S. is being done not just to satisfy the junkies & cokeheads, but to undermine our entire society.
It is an ongoing act of war and the perps are not difficult to identify.
Can’t prove it, but it seems to me a lot of this situation is deliberate suicide.
Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the Medellin cartel, once said he didn't consider himself a criminal but a revolutionary attacking the United States; every cocaine shipment he considered an atomic bomb launched on American society.
Ever since then, I've advocated the execution of all addicts on the basis of treason.
Thousands of amateur chemists easily figured out how to mass cook meth. After the crackdown on opioid pills I’m sure these same people are now mass producing illegal hard core pain pills.
Agreed.
flights are down, shipping is down, tourist traffic is down, pharmacies are under a microscope - so where are they coming from?
From China to Mexico and hence across the border or by sea into the US.
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Imagine the bad luck. He’s just minding his own business and he picks up the Covid-19 virus. Then, if you can believe it, he’s hit with the fentanyl virus! So tragic!
Sources tell me that heroin and fentanyl are as available as ever, unlike cocaine. Cheap too. Suspect inside operation.
Some people are simply genetically wired with an addictive personality, but I do recognize that there are a number of people who do develop both a psychological and physical addiction. I just don't accept this Opioid prescription by doctors is behind all the overdoses. What's behind all the OD's is the Chinese governments attacking the people and addicts of America with very strong Opioids laced with the Fentanyl they produce and smuggle in.
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