Posted on 12/16/2021 6:38:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Fentanyl overdoses have surged to the leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 18 and 45, according to an analysis of U.S. government data.
Between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people between 18 and 45 years old — 37,208 in 2020 and 41,587 in 2021 — died of fentanyl overdoses, the data analysis from opioid awareness organization Families Against Fentanyl shows.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be deadly even in very small amounts, and other drugs, including heroin, meth and marijuana, can be laced with the dangerous drug. Mexico and China are the primary sources for the flow of fentanyl into the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Comparatively, between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 15, 2021, there were more than 53,000 COVID-19 deaths among those between the ages of 18 and 49, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Dr. Jill is issuing scripts?
What...not covid?
Wow, the vaccines must really be working.
But good ole Joe wants to keep those borders open so there’s plenty of drugs to go around.
10% for the Big Guy.
When will people understand that winning the war on drugs means billions of dollars no longer going to to government agencies and private prisons. No one in power wants to sole this problem and the solution is very simple.
I will repeat what I’ve often said regarding recreational use of drugs. Taking fentanyl or any other such substance Is a choice. Bad choices frequently have bad outcomes. So no sympathy from this quarter to the druggies who kill themselves.
To me the only good drug addict is a bad drug addict, but I do not believe these people are going out and buying fentanyl. They think they are getting some other drug but are supplied something with Chinese fentanyl in it.
Biden opened the FLOODGATES for these murders.
Biden loaded planes to every city in the US with these
poisons.
The DNC and Biden are almost SOLELY responsible
for EVERY DEATH, just like in Kabul.
Let’s open the border a bit more and see if less of the drugs will make it across! That’s the ticket!
The problem is they’re mixing that fetanyl poison in with our good clean heroin and meth. That’s no good. A fella’ could get killed by that poison.
And Hunter keeps chugging along.
The white privilege choice of death.
What about drunks? Do they too deserve to die. Or risk takers who are rock climbers? Yet back to druggers. Yeah, people who use heroin are not exactly healthy.
Wait . . . . what ? .... not covid ?
Mostly, it is mixed with heroin or something else. The ODs come by accident, but then everyone knows by now what they are risking when they do this.
Fent is very difficult to stop due to even tiny shipments making a huge impact. One bag carried by a mule can dose an entire city.
There are synthetic research opioids many orders of magnitude stronger than fentanyl. If interdiction increases, they will simply go smaller (and more deadly). Imagine a disc concealable in the base of a child’s cup that can dose millions.
With a worsening economy, our society has no shortage of people desperate enough to risk selling drugs to survive. For many poor and abused people, even prison is better than where they live now.
I don’t think drug abuse or anything else will improve until there is major spiritual turning point in our society...
Do you grow your own? Fent is coming across the border in weed. Yeah weed. It will kill you dead; and it is in weed.
Good luck with that.
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