The most radical way to save lives from Fentanyl is to place a naval blockade on Mexico from ships coming from China with the chemicals that are mixed together to produce it.
Something radical? Like don’t effing take drugs?
CC
The most radical solution would be an American version of the Boxer Rebellion, the result of China’s inactivity to fight 19th century opiate abuse via imported drugs. Our superiors sure as h*ll don’t give a [expletive] about us.
it’s kind of what I was discussing the other day… maybe with you? Later in the article they also mention some doctors in the US giving illicit fentanyl users a supply of opiate pills which in theory anyway keeps them from the worst of withdrawal symptoms, allows them to be fairly functional in society if the pills are not abused (such as taking 10 pills at a time or crushing and injecting it etc), requires them to get checkups in case other interventions are needed, and opens a path for intervention towards sobriety by helping to wean them off over time. I think this is a better idea, a saner policy than “safe injection sites” for street drugs, especially because the medications they would get are manufactured to pharmaceutical standards by licensed pharmaceutical companies each with a measured and reliable dosage. So let’s stop demonizing doctors for writing pain pill prescriptions, threatening to take away their licenses, help the addicts lower their risk of overdose, and work towards rehabilitation. I’d rather have functional pill poppers than 100,000 OD deaths and cities of homeless fentanyl zombies
Also as the article quotes one patient “he’s still an addict but he’s no longer a bank robber”. So much other crime is the result of drug abuse and drug policies - criminals killing each other over drug turf beefs and money, and addicts robbing homes and stores for money to feed their habits, even police addicted to the money they raise seizing the property of dealers and users. We can put the drug gangs and the drug cartels out of business and treat people for the disease that it is.
Fwiw, cocaine (which is habitual but not generally addictive if snorted) and morphine and even heroin was legal to buy in a pharmacy about 120 years ago. We only have these potent street syndthics like meth and fentanyl because they are cheap to make and the “plant based” drugs are expensive and have to be made in hidden places and smuggled. Doctors used laudanum to treat a large number of ailments and yes people abused them but it was not hidden from society and doctors and pharmacists were aware of their addictive or habitual nature and were able to caution and intervene. Street drug dealers not only don’t care about their customers they sometimes intentionally spike some of their supply hoping to overdose someone so that other addicts think their “product” is better than the other pusherman’s supply. It’s completely insane and while my idea here may not be perfect, I think it’s better than doing what we have been doing. We not only let all these immoral people get rich killing lots of people every year we also do nothing to help the addicts get straight.
It would be easier to buy fentanyl, from an illegal alien.
The best way to stop fentanyl overdoses is to stop the use of narcan on drug users... Eventually the abusers will be thinned out.
Google the number.
Snoopy: "It was a dark and stormy night".
don’t use street drugs, idiots.
how people can muster up sympathy is beyond me.
The overflowering language had me laughing out loud. Somebody’s going for a Pulitzer. 🤣
As with most things, the bible has the answer for this issue...
2 Thessalonians 3:10-13
If you don’t work, you don’t eat. It will solve the drug crisis in short order.
Want to put a stop to something? MTPTHTP
Make the price too high to pay.
Execute a few high profile dealers on TV, and in a public space somewhere. Public hangings will put a stop to the trade.
Provide help and services to addicts, up to a point. Three strikes and you’re out sort of thing.
Get narcan’d by EMS, it’s an automatic three weeks of cold turkey in a cell.
Third time is the last time.
Dealers, at any level get a speedy trial and a speedier execution, with their own product.
Frankly-—IF you are too stupid to still use Fentynal after all the recent publicity:
NOT going to miss you.
What’s considered a safe per day dosage to keep an addict happy?
The reason for the question is that I’d be interested to compare that to the effects of NorCo that was over-prescribed to my Mom, some years back.
I'm against marijuana as well...insidious....
People voluntarily choose to ingest toxic drugs into their bodies. It’s no one else’s fault.