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Inside the grim reality of the fentanyl plague affecting NYC and the country
New York Post ^ | July 14, 2023 | Craig McCarthy

Posted on 07/14/2023 2:30:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Inside a hip Lower East Side cocktail bar, late on a recent Saturday night a crowd of young party-goers formed a line outside the bathroom as punk music blared in the background.

That’s when one local restaurant worker cut through the noise with a warning: “If anyone is using drugs tonight, do it safely and test!” This has become the unsettling new reality both in and out of the party scene in New York City as fentanyl, the synthetic opioid responsible for about 150 overdose deaths in the US a day, has infiltrated nearly every aspect of the illicit drug market — leaving unsuspecting users and their families reeling.

“I am surprised that more people aren’t aware that fentanyl is definitely filtering into the cocaine supply,” New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in an interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenisawol; china; drugs; fentanyl; fentanylcrisis; newyork
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1 posted on 07/14/2023 2:30:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So anyone who uses illegal drugs (or legal vaccines!) may unexpectedly die. It’s good to know, and govern our behavior accordingly.


2 posted on 07/14/2023 2:36:12 PM PDT by devere
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To: nickcarraway

This is why I cook my own meth.


3 posted on 07/14/2023 2:36:53 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Let us remember to tell our leftist associates, the Chinese Communists made narcotics sales in the US a mission to make money and to undermine the safety and economy of the US. People will do anything to get their drugs and this causes a breakdown of social stability. Win for China without a shot fired directly.


4 posted on 07/14/2023 2:37:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway

Only place users and dealers will not be subject to arrest is the White House.


5 posted on 07/14/2023 2:38:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway
Singapore has got it right.

Q. When will the United States get it right?
A. Never. Those days are long gone.


6 posted on 07/14/2023 2:38:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: EEGator

I only use Hunter Biden approved coke.


7 posted on 07/14/2023 2:39:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I called the Tinnitus Helpline and all I heard was ringing.)
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8 posted on 07/14/2023 2:41:54 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Leaning Right

The sign in post #6 is from Indonesia. Singapore has the same signs.
Those folks don’t fool around. Smuggle drugs, and risk the noose.

Makes sense to me.


9 posted on 07/14/2023 2:42:20 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: nickcarraway

Let them fall by the way side. Repent, change your ways, or reap what you sow.


10 posted on 07/14/2023 2:42:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

Why should I care?
Democrats outlawed drugs.
The ones they have made legal are taxed so much the illegal drugs still have a good market.
Other than accidental exposure I could care less if someone OD’s
Let them kill themselves. I’m not their keeper when they do stupid as long as it not a danger to me I don’t care.
In fact by Definition every Democrat is a danger to me
and as Sun Tzu said in the art of war, “if the enemy is doing stupid” stand aside and watch.
Pardon my paraphrase.


11 posted on 07/14/2023 2:43:25 PM PDT by rellic
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Well the British did the same to them. Surely everyone would learn from the Opium Wars.

The Chinese probably thought no president would be stupid enough to open his country’s borders to narcotics ever again but then...


12 posted on 07/14/2023 2:44:31 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: BipolarBob

Legit plan.


13 posted on 07/14/2023 2:47:39 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: monkeyshine

I’m gonna come at you like a spider monkey!


14 posted on 07/14/2023 2:48:22 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Problem with fentanyl is it is openly smoked on public transit etc so it’s everywhere...affecting non users.


15 posted on 07/14/2023 2:48:51 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: Leaning Right
The sign in post #6 is from Indonesia. Singapore has the same signs. Those folks don’t fool around. Smuggle drugs, and risk the noose.

We need the death penalty in the U.S. for those who are caught dealing fentayl

16 posted on 07/14/2023 2:50:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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It is everywhere. A major problem. Another gift from evil China. Once (if) a Republican gets in the WH, look for the media to finally give it to the air time it deserves. They are covering it, sort of, but nothing like they would otherwise.


17 posted on 07/14/2023 2:56:45 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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> We need the death penalty in the U.S. for those who are caught dealing fentanyl <

Quite so. Image a psychopath who is paid to randomly fire into a housing complex. He doesn’t care whom he hurts, whom he kills. Children, the weak and vulnerable, etc. No matter. He is paid by the bullet fired.

That person is deserving of the death penalty. Same with drug dealers.


18 posted on 07/14/2023 2:58:20 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: EEGator

LMAO!!!

I wasn’t aware that drug users were “unsuspecting” of the possible lethal consequences from those drugs-not even in this remote rural area, where meth is cooked in the woods by one or two Walt White wannabees...


19 posted on 07/14/2023 3:02:20 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: devere

Think of it as Evolution in Action. . . 😜


20 posted on 07/14/2023 3:06:11 PM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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