Posted on 07/25/2019 8:26:04 AM PDT by OfficialJudicialWatch
In the midst of an opioid epidemic in the United States, the government has blown tens of millions of dollars to treat drug addiction in Afghanistan and has no clue if the programs are working. Since 2002 American taxpayers have doled out an eye-popping $9 billion to counter drug production in the Islamic nation, the world’s top opium producer. The money largely flows through the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). As part of the broader effort, Uncle Sam spent $50.5 million on dozens of drug treatment programs between 2013 and 2018. The treatment projects are implemented by the United Nations on Drugs and a cooperative for economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific known as Colombo Plan.
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SHUT OFF THE SPIGOT!
Shouldn’t we let Darwin sort all of this out?
What's the fuss?
Shades of “Charlie Wilson’s War”.
More free cash for the rent seeking rehab industry. It has a nearly zero percent success rate. But providing good paychecks for worthless degrees like psychology is a govt specialty.
We should be treating Afghani drug addiction with free Fentanyl.
Trying to destroy the poppy crop in the field, acre by acre, is a tedious wack-a-mole game. Some kind of genetically engineered plant pathogen relatively specific to the opium poppy might be a better option IF it could be controlled to avoid unwanted consequences. However, my recollection is that successful campaigns to chase opium production out of other areas on the past, focused not on the poppies and their raw opium, but rather on the supply of chemicals needed to convert it into far more potent and less bulky drugs. IIRC those chemical weren’t readily available on the open market in opium growing areas, didn’t have any other legal uses there, and could be successfully interdicted from reaching there. Having to smuggle the bulky raw opium out of country for further processing would make drug production much more difficult and less profitable.
“To that end, the U.S. government has spent $8.9 billion on counter narcotics efforts” in Afghanistan, the new audit reveals.”
“Despite the free flow of American tax dollars to combat the crisis, opium production rose 43% to an estimated 4,800 tons, and approximately 201,000 hectare s of land were under poppy cultivation, representing a 10% increase in one year alone.”
It’s not the libertarians that are for increased use, it’s America’s beloved fascist police state and deep state agencies. The government needs the drug business. They need the biggest prison system in the world. They need to keep the money laudering banks to keep laundering money to avoid a financial collapse. Politicians need their payoff; so keep the border open to cartels. Sure we have big busts, but that means that the drug flow is even bigger.
Let’s face it , the federal government is practicing a policy of death and imprisonment. They are actively facilitating the illicit drug market. The war on drugs is a war on the people.
After Leaving Thousands in Agony, the CDC Is Finally Clarifying Its Painkiller Restrictions
Have Terminal Cancer here’s your Tylenol
nationalpainreport.com/have-pain-take-a-tylenol-8840582.html?fbclid=IwAR26nUKoZagfw3S5taOSH9q2myghfHmlXz9BZKEjgjRbDlKvg52xPC4kzsc
Thanks for the link, Gail. The government’s policy of favoring illicit drugs over priscription drugs is taking its toll on chronic pain patients as well. This appears to be a “twofer” for the government. More chronic pain patients suffering and committing suicide, and more people on the street dying of overdoses. Confirming yet again that the Feds are all about death and destruction.
nationalpainreport.com/have-pain-take-a-tylenol-8840582.html?fbclid=IwAR26nUKoZagfw3S5taOSH9q2myghfHmlXz9BZKEjgjRbDlKvg52xPC4kzsc
A couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of poison
added to the drug supply line will cure that problem practically overnight.
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