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Heroin Is Vanishing as Fentanyl Swamps Streets
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 18, 2019 | Abby Goodnough

Posted on 05/20/2019 6:13:47 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: addiction; baltimore; bluezones; china; drugs; fentanyl; heroin; wod
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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.

1 posted on 05/20/2019 6:13:47 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

What’s the attraction to take a pain killer?


2 posted on 05/20/2019 6:15:01 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: artichokegrower

China’s revenge for opium?


3 posted on 05/20/2019 6:16:37 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: artichokegrower

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


4 posted on 05/20/2019 6:17:47 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: akalinin

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


5 posted on 05/20/2019 6:17:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: artichokegrower

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


6 posted on 05/20/2019 6:18:15 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“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.


7 posted on 05/20/2019 6:18:25 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: ConservativeMind
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.

8 posted on 05/20/2019 6:20:19 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: ConservativeMind
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.
9 posted on 05/20/2019 6:20:29 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: central_va

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.


10 posted on 05/20/2019 6:21:44 AM PDT by Maranatha7757
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To: akalinin

Few know of the opium rebellion.


11 posted on 05/20/2019 6:21:47 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: artichokegrower
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.
12 posted on 05/20/2019 6:22:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (You can't normalize the type of behavior, the left is trying to normalize, because it isn't normal!)
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To: akalinin

Spot on, I think.


13 posted on 05/20/2019 6:23:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ConservativeMind

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


14 posted on 05/20/2019 6:25:06 AM PDT by tellw (ed)
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To: mylife
Few know of the opium rebellion.

Kids definitely need more world history these days.
15 posted on 05/20/2019 6:26:11 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: ConservativeMind

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


16 posted on 05/20/2019 6:27:28 AM PDT by bethelgrad
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To: artichokegrower
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.

17 posted on 05/20/2019 6:27:40 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is chaos. Next step? The Abyss.)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


18 posted on 05/20/2019 6:28:48 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is chaos. Next step? The Abyss.)
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Sad how the Democrats ignore that the Chinese are killing their constituents.

Why should they care? they will still be voting democrat
19 posted on 05/20/2019 6:29:27 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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“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.

L


20 posted on 05/20/2019 6:29:44 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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