San Francisco is 'drowning in fentanyl.' Where is the drug coming from?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sep. 28, 2021 | Amy Graff

[artichokegrower]

San Francisco is in the grips of an unprecedented drug epidemic as fentanyl floods the street-drug marketplace, intensifying the peril of addiction and leading to a staggering number of overdose deaths.

[dfwgator]

They were jerks too, last time I went to London I toured The Cutty Sark.

[null and void]

Oh wow...just read up on it. It is 80-100 times stronger than Morphine. When I had Morphine for severe injuries, I LOVED morphine. That was many years ago and I still have a strong emotional attachment to Morphine. I get it now. That would be a VERY dangerous drug.

Yeah. I had morphine after my pancreas exploded. I don't have an emotional attachment to it but...

Previously, I never understood drug addiction, I really get it now!

[Pajamajan]

"Where is the drug coming from?"

🇨🇳

[Dr. Ursus]

Killing the white working class; replacements toweling off at the Rio Grande!

[sport]

That they were!

[null and void]

It’s not the best business model for the dealers.

It's a pretty good model for conquest.

China vividly remembers how they were conquered by English speakers with opium.

We all look the same to them...

[grumpygresh]

The government has shut down most of the pain clinics so many patients go to the streets.
The DEA has worked with Chinese narcotics for over 30 years so they’re involved in running the protection racket with the cartels.
Drugs and human trafficking create demand for dollars as does other criminal activities. As the petrodollar dies the US needs demand for dollars to come from criminal activities. This is even more important as Afghanistan is no longer going to be a source for US narcotics.
Fentanyl is a lot more concentrated and easier to smuggle.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-09/DEA%20Testimony%20-%20China%20and%20Fentanyl%20HFAC_0.pdf

[varyouga]

Medical cannabis has actually been shown in many studies to reduce the use of opioids in states where it is available. It also helps to beat an addiction to opioids by reducing withdrawal pain.

Many people with access to proper cannabis treatment avoid these toxic, addictive and expensive opiods from the start. Starting on prescription opiods used to be a slow death sentence. Where addicts would up the dose until doctors cut them off and they switch to street heroin (with fentanyl)

Many people I know who used $thousands worth of addictive drugs every month while destroying their liver cut down greatly or switched entirely to cannabis for pain management. Some even growing custom organic medicine at home for free that feels best for their condition. And using it with smokeless medical certified devices. Big pharma’s worst nightmare come true...

[dfwgator]

I’ve learned that the Brits pretty much a-holes.

How they acted towards Ireland is another example, especially during the Potato Famine.

[warsaw44]

Can an addict successfully get off fentanyl?

I heard heroin addicts have a horrible time doing so and a great many go back to the drug.

[null and void]

Lol! Ever heard the term slippery slope? Enjoy!

Hmmm. Hilly San Fransisco with bum poop on the sidewalks?

[sport]

You are right! Let them tough it out. Unless you have experienced the joy of bone on bone vertebrae rubbing together, you haven't lived. If the damn druggies would leave the pain pills to those who need them, the pain pills would be o.k.

[telescope115]

Too bad we can’t drop them in the Spratly Islands.

[null and void]

*ouch*

[Kudsman]

Where is the drug coming from?

Ultimately….Democrats.

[sport]

They were not kind to the Colonists they captured during the Revolutionary war, either. Putting them in the holes of the rotting prison ships tied up at the docks.

[null and void]

They should probably stop prescribing opioids for pain as that drives a lot of people into opiod addiction.

I would have gone into shock and died without morphine.

Let's hold off on your plan until the ongoing research into finding a painkiller that doesn't give a high is found, shall we?

[null and void]

I’m in S.F.

Why?

Serious question.

[wardaddy]

I never recall legalizing pot being touted as leverage over Chicom narcotics lords and Bean People cartels

Marijuana use is unlikely to help with heroin addiction anymore than alcohol legalization does

Very different effects

Ironically booze is far more kin to narcotic pain relief than pot is

Both have stronger analgesic properties than Marihuana

[Vision]

I don't understand, San Franciscans and Californians think they know everything. How can this be?