Posted on 12/15/2022 10:33:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
Drug overdose deaths among US teens doubled from 2019 to 2021 - even as use of illicit substances declined - as fentanyl fueled a nationwide crisis.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today that teenage overdoses increased 109 percent over the two years. Deaths caused by fentanyl alone increased 182 percent.
Officials warn that many US teens are dying after ingesting drugs like cocaine, Adderall or Xanax that are contaminated with fentanyl. They also warn that social media platforms have become a new marketplace for illicit drugs.
The nation's drug overdose crisis has struck everyone, with a record 107,622 Americans dying of a drug overdose last year. More than 70 percent of deaths were caused by synthetic opioid like fentanyl.
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Given that many whites are dying, the media and the government does not care.
Courtesy of open borders with Mexico.
Thank you, Joe Biden.
It’s a modern day Opium War, except this time it’s China against the U.S.
I think this goes along with the jab as population control. Part of the plan... hope I am wrong.
Because Biden is working hand in hand with the drug cartels.
Yes, closing the border would help, but the psychological warfare against freedom is the main culprit. The shutdown has brutalized our youth psychologically. This isn’t seeking a groovy trip; this is just seeking numbness.
The coup is responsible and we let it happen
I have little love for the Biden administration, but is it Biden's fault that teens are choosing to use these drugs?
No one forced them to take these drugs. Stupidity kills.
Don’t these drugs kill progressives mainly? I thought that conservatives raised their children to be responsible and not to take drugs...
"Don’t these drugs kill progressives mainly? I thought that conservatives raised their children to be responsible and not to take drugs..."
Fueled by godlessness and depraved Democrats.
Don’t do drugs.
Where do you think the drugs are coming from?
Just say no
Keep it simple stupid
No matter how trendy your friends tell you it is.
P.S. That’s not what you call a friend.
I couldn't care less where they're coming from. They wouldn't be coming here at all if people weren't using them.
The bad guys are mixing them into other drugs that will not kill you. And people are overdosing and winding up dead. So wise up. Fentanyl is pouring over the border uninterrupted.
At what point are they forcing the users to take them?
I mean, besides the human traffickers who drug the women they kidnap so that men who choose to patronize their products can have a warm body to stick it into.
So wise up.
A lot of Americans need to wise up and stop doing drugs.
Almost anyone who overcame a drug habit will tell you that.
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