Posted on 08/17/2021 12:20:07 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The nation’s COVID pandemic made the nation’s drug overdose epidemic worse. This issue brief highlights media and other reports showing increases in drug overdose mortality and other concerns relating to access to evidence-based care for substance use disorders, patients with pain as well as harm reduction services. The reports below cite data from multiple and varied sources, including national, state and local public health agencies, law enforcement, emergency medical services, hospitals, treatment centers, research journals and others. Every state has reported a spike or increase in overdose deaths or other problems during the COVID pandemic. One prevailing theme is the fact that the epidemic now is driven by illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, methamphetamine, and cocaine, often in combination or in adulterated forms. Overdose related to prescription opioids and heroin remain high and also are increasingly adulterated with illicit fentanyl.
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Fentanyl … when the ChiComs and Mexican Cartels cooperate.
This is going well.
Lots of contribution money from the drug dealers to The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
There will be hell to pay.
Bump!
Are we losing valuable productive people? Or is this weeding the garden.
How about this for a terrorist attack. Get 1000 pounds of Fentanyl in powdered form. Put it in a crop dusting airplane and fly over a big city during rush hour and let it loose. Will make 9/11 look like a Sunday school picnic.
Please do not give AntiFa any ideas.
I’d be really surprised is any terrorist group, domestic or otherwise, haven’t already thought of this.
I just heard/read something about it’s already being found mixed into legit medications.
Yes. But when it comes to these knuckle draggers you need to realize that was true of the mob and folks like Meyer Lansky is likely true of them too. Lansky is remembered as some kind of criminal genius but in truth he may have only been smart compared to the people he was surrounded by.
In particular the petty, humorless, sheepleline idiots produced by the Left who are the testosterone deficient / soy boy version of the Brown Shirts or radical Muslims.
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