Opioid Trafficking Is Domestic Terrorism

RCP ^ | Sara Carter

[RoosterRedux]

America is facing a drug crisis unlike anything it has ever seen before. On average from 1999 to 2016, 115 people died every day from opioid overdoses across the nation — with the total annual figure peaking at more than 49,000 in 2017. If this were a disease or a plague, America would be in a panic, schools would close, and those affected would be in quarantine.

A new synthetic opiate called fentanyl is responsible for much of this carnage. One of the deadliest drugs to ever plague our streets, just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can kill a grown man — making it more dangerous than anthrax. Many times, users have no idea that these synthetic opioids are being laced into marijuana, heroin, and pills that appear to be legitimate prescription medications. In Ohio, roughly 50 percent of the pills being sold on the streets are fakes with a fentanyl and heroin mix. Even though the pills look legitimate, a single one can be lethal. There are no second chances.

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The groups responsible for bringing these drugs into our country are some of the deadliest and most brutal gangsters to ever operate inside and outside America. Violent marauders like the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco Neuva Generacion and the armed street gangs they hire, including MS-13, are moving contraband at a constant rate. Translated, the motto of MS-13 is “kill, steal, rape, control.”

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There is a simple way to fight the daunting criminal networks working against America: a border wall. Not a barrier to stop legal immigrants, but a wall to prevent horrific substances and brutal killers from entering our country. It would be a great start to a long fight to bring down that daily opioid death toll.

[cornfedcowboy]

Fentanyl

[wgmalabama]

I understand the growth of prescriptions. Feds came in and said treat chroic pain, hurt many solders in 15 years of WOT, ...

[Waverunner]

So where are the liberals, 70,000+ DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS IN 2016 AND PERHAPS 100,000 IN 2017. We lost 58,000 american lives over 10 years in Vietnam. This is like a Vietnam war every year. Peace, Love Where have all the flowers gone?

[eyeamok]

Today, it’s your neighbor’s clean suburban 17 year old kid at a party dying from his or her first or second time taking pills. It’s the same kid who managed to escape death for a while but got hooked, got help, got clean, but had a single relapse at age 22. It’s the kids who got a severe sports injury and got addicted to the opiod pain killers prescribed by the doctor. It’s the student taking Xanax to cope with stress during finals.

All self Inflicted! How do I know? 40 years ago my Doctors LET me addicted to Opiates after a Bad Motorcycle accident, YES I KNEW what I was doing, so did they, We ALL knew i was going to be addicted temporarily, but the only other option was a Medical Coma. Without the Opiates I went in to Shock from the pain and hit the ground wherever I was. 3 months later when I had the surgery, I woke up with NO PAIN and spent 2 weeks going through withdrawls in a hospital bed. I freely chose to be addicted for a while, just like I chose to get off of them when I didn't need them anymore, A lot of people CHOOSE otherwise.

[momincombatboots]

They are someone’s son or daughter, lost, but loved. If you saw it up close, you would understand. #IvoryTowerView

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thank you. Exactly right. We know the heartbreak. Some people are just cold and heartless.

[NobleFree]

We've been fighting a war on drugs for decades and it's just getting worse. As long as there is a demand, the traffickers will find a way to get the crap into this country..........

The war on drugs is a war on supply and demand, and is failing as it's doomed to do by those very terms. Whatever the answer is, it isn't more of what hasn't worked and can't work.

[momincombatboots]

I have seen the heartbreak. Everyone can be redeemed, no matter what cirumstances. With the historical addiction problem that Obamacare instigated because hospital reimbursement was tied to pain complaints.. will eventually touch those, even in the ivory towers. Of course the will just cover it up so thry look good to their friends and colleagues.

[oldvirginian]

Ok, we can start with that.

[Hot Tabasco]

Your statement is true. I have three physicians in my family, an Oncologist, a thorasic surgeon and an emergency room doctor at the local VA hospital. Each one of them echo what you heard, doctors are NOT recommending opioids like they did in the past (there are exceptions of course) and are indeed recommending the non addictive pain killers as an alternative.

Due to my active sports life, Celebrex was the miracle drug for me since it took away all the aches and pains I was suffering. It's not an addictive drug but rather an NSAID that does have certain side effects which I started experiencing after taking it for several years.

I was taking Ibuprofen for a number years like a vitamin and it ultimately caught up with me. It screwed up my stomach.

So my doctor recommended Tylenol acetaminophen which works pretty good but at least it doesn't interfere with my stomach.

I think what we are witnessing is a classic example of the MSM focusing on the medical community, blaming them for the opioid epidemic when the reality is that only a small number of that group are responsible for the prescription problem..............cue "we need government intervention and only Obamacare can fix it".

[frank ballenger]

What a distinguished family with three doctors.

Thanks for all your information. Hopefully you and your loved ones will be pain free soon and not have to choose among side effect problems.

[from occupied ga]

Cry me a river. Junkies are wastes of oxygen. And the worst part of it is they choose to be that way. They alienate friends and family. They turn their backs on everything except getting high. The families suffer, but the junkies don’t care. I’ve seen it happen to friends, but fortunately not to relatives. The families try and try, but other than stealing stuff from their families to support their habit.they have no desire to be with the families. In both case I knew about the families gave up and made sure their junkie kids couldn’t get into the house to steal anything. They’d lie about getting clean and then loot their parents houses for anything they could sell. One was the son of a good friend and he told me in too much detail what they went through. The other I got the details indirectly, but it was the same story with only the minor details changed.

You can be sympathetic to junkies if you want, but I reserve my compassion for people who have problems that they didn’t make for themselves

[Mark was here]

I don’t care about people who play stupid games, winning stupid prizes.

I do care about our freedoms being taken by the government in the name of the War on Drugs.

If someone needs a pain pill, let them have it.