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Fentanyl seizures at US-Mexico border up 750%
washingtonexaminer ^ | 5/23/2018 | by Anna Giaritelli

Posted on 05/23/2018 4:48:07 AM PDT by caww

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and their maritime counterparts seized 284 pounds of fentanyl between Oct. 1, 2017, and April 30.

“There is a crisis at our southwest border — large quantities of dangerous and illicit drugs, such as fentanyl, are pouring into our country in record numbers," DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman told the Washington Examiner.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate painkiller and is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Just three years ago, CBP did not even track even track fentanyl seizures, but the continued growing demand from U.S. consumers prompted drug traffickers to begin shipping it to the states, often through the mail.

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


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1 posted on 05/23/2018 4:48:07 AM PDT by caww
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murder drug


2 posted on 05/23/2018 4:53:42 AM PDT by babble-on
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This, and the associated statistics as to the number of deaths caused by fentanyl should be brought up when the left claims that Republicans do not care about the deaths of children in schools from mass shootings. Fentanyl kills many many many more people annually then guns at schools and the problem is far more widespread. But Democrats who will not fund the wall, never mind their complete inability to even listen to the solutions offered by Republicans for greater security at schools, are the caring ones. Of course. Always.


3 posted on 05/23/2018 4:54:03 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: caww

America drug crazy . Cause of many of the ills affecting society at large .


4 posted on 05/23/2018 4:55:15 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

No buyers no drugs come in . Can’t blame just the illegals .


5 posted on 05/23/2018 4:56:10 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: caww

Makes you wonder how big of a cut is Jerry Brown getting?


6 posted on 05/23/2018 5:02:51 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: caww

Old Bammy was just letting everything through.
More winning.


7 posted on 05/23/2018 5:11:04 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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" More winning."

Yes. Now I don't know what I don't know about pain mgt and or alternatives to drugs. Like many I am aware of message, chiropractic, physical therapy, these pain blocking implants etc. FWIW PDJT has the bully pulpit minus the fake news. Will an alternative be promoted with all I mentioned and more ( possibly marijuana based salves to be applied topically, I hear they exist for example ) and or revive old pain meds that Obama pretty much obliterated from what I read to come up with a new template for a solution to the complex problem?

8 posted on 05/23/2018 5:16:55 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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To: babble-on

Yes it is! Dangerous doesn’t say enough!


9 posted on 05/23/2018 6:08:51 AM PDT by caww
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Yes...I’ve watched this drug advance here from the get go. most of it comes from China thru our southern border.


10 posted on 05/23/2018 6:11:02 AM PDT by caww
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Fentanyl isn’t just a drug....it’s a killer...Drug barons love it because it travels easily, no bundles etc as other drugs like heroin etc. Easily concealed..


11 posted on 05/23/2018 6:13:15 AM PDT by caww
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To: MrEdd

“Old Bammy” Only concern was his own self interest. That has never changed..nor that of his wife. They invest only it what brings a return..including the Presidency.


12 posted on 05/23/2018 6:16:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Dirty money lines many pockets. Billions of bucks out there and I am sure Brown has dirty hands.


13 posted on 05/23/2018 6:36:38 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (Not much to say, yet.)
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To: caww

I’m guessing this stuff is a little more difficult to make, not exactly a garage-operation product?


14 posted on 05/23/2018 6:48:32 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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284 pounds = 129 kilograms or 129,000 grams. A fatal dose of Fentanyl is around 2 to 3 milligrams. Assuming 2.5 mg:

129,000/.0025 = 51,600,000 fatal doses.

In Aug 2017, NYPD seized 140 pounds, enough to kill approximately 32 million.

15 posted on 05/23/2018 6:56:08 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: babble-on

It’s exceed Heroin in Nashville.


16 posted on 05/23/2018 7:09:57 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO Wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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Chinese suppliers are providing both raw fentanyl and the ‘machinery’ necessary for the assembly-line production of the drug

If a particular batch has two milligrams of fentanyl per pill, approximately 500,000 counterfeit pills can be manufactured from one kilogram of pure fentanyl.

“For the cartels, why wait for a field of poppies to grow and harvest if you can get your hands on the precursor chemicals and cook a batch of fentanyl in a lab?”

China is a global source of illicit fentanyl and other [new psychoactive substances] because the country’s vast chemical and pharmaceutical industries are weakly regulated and poorly monitored.


17 posted on 05/23/2018 7:13:28 AM PDT by caww
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A ‘lethal’ fentanyl dose is about 2 milligrams—an amount so minuscule that in a test tube it looks like a few grains of salt clinging to the glass....’Carfentanil’ the deadliest fentanyl cousin is 100 times stronger, making it about 10,000 times more potent than morphine...

In one country late August 2016, saw 176 drug overdoses, primarily from carfentanil..


18 posted on 05/23/2018 7:18:20 AM PDT by caww
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Oh...My...


19 posted on 05/23/2018 7:42:00 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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another problem is that the counterfeiters use pill presses that are the shape of other drugs that people abuse.

So they think they have Xanax, for example and instead they have fentanyl. They take three and die.


20 posted on 05/23/2018 7:43:42 AM PDT by babble-on
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