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The ‘unspoken pandemic’: Fentanyl manufacturing explodes in Mexico, leading to overdoses in SoCal
KTLA ^ | Apr 4, 2022 | Kareen Wynter, Cameron Kiszla

Posted on 04/05/2022 6:20:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The dangerous opioid fentanyl continues to contribute to overdoses in the United States, though where it’s coming from has changed in the past few years.

From 2014 to 2019, 70 to 80% of fentanyl seized by federal authorities came from China, according to a report from the U.S. Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking.

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Since 2019, however, production has shifted to Mexico, where precursors from China and other Asian countries are made into fentanyl, which is then brought by land into the U.S.


Thanks Biden.

1 posted on 04/05/2022 6:20:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

The media refuses to notice, therefore, no one but the friends and families of the victims care.

Let a Republican win in 2024, and this will become a 5 alarm crisis that the media will lay at the feet of the GOP.


2 posted on 04/05/2022 6:25:24 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: artichokegrower

Once Jo Jo the pedo clown cancels Title 42, Biden’s Mexican drug cartel pals will be flooding the border with fentanyl.


3 posted on 04/05/2022 6:28:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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I just returned from a vacation in San Joe Cabo San Lucas, MX.

When you go to downtown Cabo around the marina there are the normal T-shirt, souvenirs shops catering to tourists. There are also a tremendous amount of Pharmacies. Sometimes, every third shop. How much Viagara can they possibly sell?
They even had a Pharma shop at the Cabo airport. My wife bought two tubes of Retina. She said it was $200/tube in the USA. it was two tubes for $110 in the airport Pharma store.

What I wondered was whether these shops were selling the real thing or fake drugs?

4 posted on 04/05/2022 6:29:46 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: artichokegrower
From a recent thread:
‘No Offensive Biologic Weapons’ in Ukrainian Biolabs: Pentagon Tells Congress. Says the labs seek to prevent bioweapons and pathogens
4/4/2022, 10:33:23 AM · 45 of 83
null and void to Bratch
If China was investing in chemical *cough fentanyl* weapons labs in Mexico, and if the Chinese military was working inside those labs along with Mexican government officials, I suspect the United States would conduct a special military operation in Mexico to remove that threat.

Yeah. That would happen.


5 posted on 04/05/2022 6:29:56 AM PDT by null and void (Bokassa always used to say, ‘You can’t feed people with politics.’)
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As I understand it the ingredients for this poison all comes from china.....what a shocker

So the ccp is infecting US yet again


6 posted on 04/05/2022 6:30:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: null and void
if the Chinese military was working inside those labs along with Mexican government officials

You could replace 'government officials' with 'cartels' and might as well be the same.

In the immortal words...


7 posted on 04/05/2022 6:35:21 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: woodbutcher1963

I was last in Cabo San Lucas 13 years ago. I was surprised they did not require and Dr’s prescription for your meds. You asked, they sold. Or at least for the low level meds we were asking about.


8 posted on 04/05/2022 6:36:34 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: larrytown

Odds are still zero under the neozero biden.


9 posted on 04/05/2022 6:36:46 AM PDT by null and void (Bokassa always used to say, ‘You can’t feed people with politics.’)
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To: artichokegrower

This would make a really splashy exhibit in Biden’s impeachment trial. The articles could be drawn up right away, ready to be presented next January.

If only the GOP had the balls.


10 posted on 04/05/2022 6:37:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: woodbutcher1963
What I wondered was whether these shops were selling the real thing or fake drugs?

Probably are real and totally fine. USA has much stricter laws and regulations on pharmaceuticals. That plus I'm sure other things end up driving up the costs. Whenever we travel overseas, there are some countries we make a point to buy stuff at because it doesn't require a prescription and it is at least half the cost. My wife would always make a point to stock up on amoxicillin when we travel to Thailand or SE Asia. Dental work was cheap in Philippines. China was the one you worried more about fake drugs or filling your teeth with concrete.

11 posted on 04/05/2022 6:38:33 AM PDT by Marko413
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Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually
For Immediate Release: November 17, 2021
Contact: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, Office of Communication (301) 458-4800
E-mail: paoquery@cdc.gov

Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before.

The new data documents that estimated overdose deaths from opioids increased to 75,673 in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, up from 56,064 the year before. Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also increased in the 12-month period ending in April 2021. Cocaine deaths also increased, as did deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids (such as prescription pain medication).


12 posted on 04/05/2022 6:39:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower (I )
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To: artichokegrower

But what about Ukraine’s borders?


13 posted on 04/05/2022 7:24:20 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: artichokegrower

I am holding the mystical sphere
It’s direct from Lasa
Where people are rolling in the snow
Far from the world we know

Children we have it right here
It’s the light in my eyes
It’s perfection and grace
It’s the smile on my face

Tonight when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind

Most of us were taught to never TOUCH the dragon. A few keep going and suffer for it. Right behind them are the well paid do-gooders to parasite off the misery.


14 posted on 04/05/2022 7:40:13 AM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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To: V_TWIN

they think it is payback for opium. but jokes on them , it is the fault of the weak minded addicts... back then as well as now.

my favorite phrase to the addicts are “To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss.”


15 posted on 04/05/2022 7:46:48 AM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: V_TWIN

They probably learned to do that back when the US, England, and Germany used opium for currency when they bought stuff from China. We taught them all they need to know.


16 posted on 04/05/2022 7:51:51 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: artichokegrower

And with FedGov well on its way to legalizing pot...many future sales of product will be dripping with fentanyl.


17 posted on 04/05/2022 8:20:14 AM PDT by moovova
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To: artichokegrower

Drones, hellfire missiles, lots of dead fentanyl makers

It is a war in but not with Mexico


18 posted on 04/05/2022 8:24:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Marko413

“amoxicillin “

better yet, buy augmentin or its generic: augmentin is a Amoxicillin / Clavulanic acid combo; the Clavulanic acid retards the rapid metabolism of Amoxicillin, thereby keeping the Amoxicillin in the body longer ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=augentin

ya’ll might as well stock up on azithromycin and doxycycline too ...


19 posted on 04/05/2022 12:34:43 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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