Posted on 05/31/2024 6:26:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that 5.8 million fentanyl-laced pills have been confiscated throughout California since January by the state’s Counterdrug Task Force in collaboration with local and federal law enforcement agencies. As state officials celebrate consistently increasing confiscations of the synthetic opioid, though, experts say that the seizures will likely not affect the illicit drug market significantly.
Over the last three years, the number of fentanyl-laced pills confiscated statewide has increased dramatically. In 2021, only 1.5 million pills were seized statewide. That number jumped almost sevenfold to 10.3 million pills seized in 2022, and then more than doubled in 2023 to 22.2 million pills containing fentanyl collected throughout the state.
“Illegal fentanyl has no place in our neighborhoods,” Newsom said in a statement announcing the seizures. “California is tackling this problem head-on by holding drug traffickers accountable and increasing seizures, while at the same time expanding access to substance abuse treatment options and providing life-saving, affordable, reversal medicine to Californians statewide.”
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because it is hard to legally get opioids, and no one has done anything to increase supply ?
Well, first of all, the government made it harder to get opioids, because the public demanded it. You can watch documentaries about all the abuses with handing out too many opioids. But that doesn’t account for how much is being pumped into the U.S. now. It’s unparalleled.
Because when a fatal dose is just 2mg, fentanyl will always be plentiful. Then there’s carfentanil waiting in the wings. Also, government overreaction leading to the banning of legal, legitimate opioid prescriptions creates even more street demand.
China ships massive amounts of the chemical components to Mexico where the drug is manufactured. Mexican authorities look the other way when the components come in. It’s not really accurate to say they are smuggled in, they are really imported like any other product.
The President of Mexico is in the pocket of the drug cartels, and Biden is in China’s pocket.
Mexican authorities have restricted what the DEA can do in Mexico, the U.S. DEA agents down there are pretty much sitting at their desks and twiddling their thumbs. There has been a huge change in Mexico the past few years, the Gov’t is helping the cartels. The view down there is that the cartels provide upward mobility for Mexicans, and Gov’t officials are saying this out loud now.
I am not sure the public demanded it any more than the public demanded dei and mentally ill people trying to participate in female sporting events.
if these substances were prescribed inappropriately or marketed in a way to induce addiction that is on the people who did this.
I think the doctors should have punishment, and the people involved in the coverup should have solitary for the rest of their miserable lives, and that goes for the covid thing as well.
but the only people who will suffer are the innocent.
It is as it always has been
“California is tackling this problem head-on by holding drug traffickers accountable”
This one of those times when there just no words.
“…more street demand.”
Street demand is “recreational” use by druggies who commit criminal acts to finance their addiction. Fentanyl ODs help remove these undesirables from the population.
the article explains, unlike opoids where manufacturers are hindered by the poppy growing/producing season, fentanyl is synthetic and the components are dirt-cheap.
Heresay from a hispanic neighbor and headlines from the WSJ and NPR: Mexican Sinaloa Cartel’s Message to Members: Stop Making Fentanyl or Die “ - the CULIACÁN-based cartel has issued death notices for anyone in their territory caught manufacturing - too many customers dying. According to the neighbor, the message was texted to everyone’s phone. This doesn’t mean all cartels have stopped or that Mexico is the sole source. In 2023, China said it would ban shipping fentanyl precursor ingredients, but a NPR April 2024 article, Report: China continues to subsidize deadly fentanyl exports, claims “...companies making fentanyl precursors and analogues could [still] apply for state tax rebates and other financial benefits after exporting the product.”
According to addictiongroup.com, Most likely to die from overdose are Native Alaskans/Indigenous Natives, urban black youth 15-24, and over 65, followed by hispanic, then white. So it looks like the more segregated/isolated/closed-off/poverty-ridden the community, the higher the incidence of sale and fatality (+250 thousand in the last 10 years)
B/c more is coming in.
Because every bust they have states “could kill 2.5 million people…” you don’t need much to kill people, and you know a lot more is getting thru than is being caught. Just like all drugs.
Because there is no opiod crisis.
China’s revenge for the Opium dens.
If your doctor jumped off a cliff, would you?
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