After reading some gossip about Afghanistan and the Ukraine and how high ranking government officials have backwater deals with Afghanistan and their redound opium industry (which the taliban has completely closed down and came back after we invaded).
I can’t help but wonder if this opioid “crisis” and the attempts to de-legalize pain medicine (which has a very real need) isn’t some clandestine attempt to enrich the illegal opium trade by those same government officials.
Americans don’t understand that China is fathering the ‘opioid crisis’ in America, just as the West fathered the opium crisis in China in the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s payback.
Here’s what Red Lawhern, an opioid researcher wrote about the dea. THis is under comments on a previous post:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3790135/posts
“I think it’s time to clean house in that benighted organization by firing their Administrator plus Department heads and key staff within their Operations division, Inspection division, and Intelligence division, on grounds of gross managerial incompetence and policy misdirection. In the the most recent proposed drug quota announcement, DEA admitted that they are unable to trace more than 1% of current retail volume of prescription opioids to diversion. They are also cutting back vitally needed surgical anesthetics and post-surgical pain relievers that are already in shortage across US hospitals in the 50 States.
I can only suggest that this ineptitude reflects a willful refusal to properly integrate existing DEA in-house databases which supposedly track drug deliveries all the way from manufacturers to importers to US distributors to pharmacies. There may be grounds for investigating DEA personnel under criteria of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. While the process can be complex, it’s not rocket science and DEA has had literally decades to get its act together.”
I just posted the same sentiments on another thread. The government started becoming really hostile toward drug companies in 2012-2013. Very coincidentally(/sarcasm), Heroin started literally being dumped onto the streets in a pure form(the dealers found it cheaper to sell it almost unadulterated than to use ‘cutting’ products) mat very cheap prices. Now they are adding fentanyl to it making the heroin that much more deadly. So guess who was in power when they started cutting off legitimate pain relief to chronic sufferers?...Obama and his cronies,including those at the DEA! By tempting chronic pain sufferers to go to the streets the same way the junkies do, the traffickers have increased their market share and their profits many times. The politicians don’t want the borders closed, they are being paid off and blackmailed by the transborder traffickers!
As for the Chinese being involved; I think they see it as part of the just retribution for the Opium Wars and the crimes the Western nations have inflicted upon them.