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Just One Pill Killed His Son: A Father’s Warning and Urgent Message to America
The Stream ^ | May 9, 2022 | John Melton

Posted on 05/10/2022 1:12:32 PM PDT by Heartlander

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To: PGR88

Then China needs to ship pills only to the UK. The US had nothing to do with the opium wars


21 posted on 05/10/2022 1:37:18 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I think we need more telephone poles!)
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To: A strike

That would be China.
Sometimes they only make the ingredients and ship the finished powder to the cartels for finishing into pill form. Other times they ship the finished pills to the cartels.
Since the CCP itself is a criminal organization, it looks the other way at the docks. As long as the government gets it’s share.


22 posted on 05/10/2022 1:39:12 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Sex is like the game of Bridge......if you don't have a good partner you better have a good hand. 😁)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

It’s the dealers that are putting it into their drugs, esp. heroin, because it’s cheaper.

Drug counseling places are handing out fent. test kits along with narcan now so the junkies can test their next hit for the stuff.


23 posted on 05/10/2022 1:41:08 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I had a similar line of thinking. The answer I found is that fentanyl pills are way cheaper to make than almost any other drug because it only takes a few micro grams to have an affect. Because of this drug dealers have a huge profit incentive to sell fentanyl pills or to dilute traditional drugs and make up the “high” by adding it in. With such high profits losing a few customers here and there isn’t really an issue.


24 posted on 05/10/2022 1:41:51 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Heartlander

Every FENTANYL death has been pre-approved by
Congress and the first pedophile who opened
the (previously-closed) gates to bring the poisons in,
and then flew them to every city,
with the first pedophile getting 10%.


25 posted on 05/10/2022 1:42:54 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ronniesgal

No, it didn’t come from a pharmacy. There are all sorts of ways to screen out counterfeit drugs from the supply chain. There are different invisible inks, radioisotopes in varying concentrations, microchips embedded in cartons etc. It’s a big area of research in pharmaceutical packaging.


26 posted on 05/10/2022 1:45:15 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Heartlander

I know a guy who lost both his son and daughter to heroine overdoses during the Obama years. So sad as both children made it through college, but died within a couple of years of each other. When I was in school back in the 80’s most everyone had enough common sense to never ever try heroine.


27 posted on 05/10/2022 1:46:04 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Heartlander

I have compassion for the parents. But ultimately, somebody has to think it’s a good idea to take this stuff into their body.

Their son, the aspiring astronaut, obviously didn’t want to kill himself, but it doesn’t matter. He took the pill.

Maybe he was sad, maybe he was frustrated. There are lots of maybes. He took the pill.

Now to other aspiring astronauts out there.....don’t be stupid like this kid. It will kill you.


28 posted on 05/10/2022 1:52:52 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: A strike

China


29 posted on 05/10/2022 1:53:46 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: oldvirginian

You got that right!

One quibble though, The CCP does not just “look the other way at the docks.” It is actively intentionally engaging in drug warfare against the UnitedStates.


30 posted on 05/10/2022 1:55:04 PM PDT by A strike (The DeepState/Uniparty doesn't only hate Trump, they hate US)
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To: LibsRJerks

exactly- drugs are bad, ummmkay?
Taking street drugs or someone elses prescription is still drug abuse.
You always read these things when it comes to oxy/fentanal heroin....it’s like the kid was just sitting there and some bully pushed the drug down his throat.
I knew in 6th grade drugs were bad, and i have never dabbled.
( PS, I am sick to death of the covid being interjected into every story.)


31 posted on 05/10/2022 2:02:48 PM PDT by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: Heartlander
The stress and isolation were unbearable. He didn’t turn to heroin or other illegal opioids to solve his problems, though. He went to what he thought was a safe and reliable solution to his anxiety: Xanax. But the pill he took was an illegally made (and likely illegally imported)...

Did he have a prescription for it, and purchase it from a drug store or other LEGAL source? If not, he gambled his life, and lost the bet.

32 posted on 05/10/2022 2:32:24 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Heartlander

He bought Canax ( or what he thought was Xanax) from the street. That’s the thing street drugs can and are anything


33 posted on 05/10/2022 2:43:02 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ronniesgal

Nope


34 posted on 05/10/2022 2:43:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Spok
lest it reflects unfavorably on Brandon’s lack of a coherent border policy.

I believe that Brandon has a coherent border policy. Unfortunately, it is to bring into the USA as many illegals as he can to continue the "fundamental change" his once boss started.

35 posted on 05/10/2022 2:49:37 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Heartlander
Maybe the father should be Thanking Complaining to Joe Biden, since it is ha and his druggie Son that made the deal and collected a hefty commission to allow CHINA to import the Pre-Cursors to Mexico
36 posted on 05/10/2022 3:13:21 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: LibsRJerks

Adolescent stupidity increases with the number of adolescents present.


37 posted on 05/10/2022 3:42:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Heartlander

I tend to blame drug overdose deaths on the person who actually decides to obtain and take the drugs. I consider it internally consistent with blaming “gun violence” on the person who actually pulls the trigger rather than guns themselves.


38 posted on 05/10/2022 4:25:10 PM PDT by Izzatso
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To: Heartlander

I signed a large business deal with someone who enjoyed the Hunter lifestyle and did cocaine. I didn’t know of course or I would have never signed the deal. He flew back to Las Vegas and bought some cocaine. He didn’t know it was laced with fentanyl and died that night.

But keep those borders open, Brandon.


39 posted on 05/10/2022 4:32:31 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: oldvirginian

“Since the CCP itself is a criminal organization...”

That cannot be repeated often - or loud - enough.


40 posted on 05/10/2022 4:41:32 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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