Posted on 11/14/2022 1:15:31 PM PST by karpov
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The pairing of meth, which can also cause psychosis and erratic, risky behavior, and opioids such as fentanyl, of which even small doses can prove fatal, is among the nation’s fastest-rising causes of overdose deaths.
One in five of the total fatal overdoses last year involved an opioid and a psychostimulant, a drug class dominated by meth, preliminary federal data show. A decade earlier, about 2% of drug deaths involved such combinations.
Meth on its own can cause potentially fatal heart damage and sometimes acute overdoses, and meth-related deaths are broadly surging. Mixing its use with powerful opioids such as fentanyl can be even deadlier. Close to two-thirds of the people who died while on psychostimulants last year also had opioids in their systems.
Sometimes meth users are accidentally exposed to fentanyl. But many users are purposefully using meth and opioids simultaneously or in sequence in search of balancing or offsetting effects, researchers say.
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Meth and fentanyl have both become more plentiful around the country, overlapping territories in ways that used to be less common. Traffickers are flooding meth into the Northeast and other markets where it once was harder to find, while fentanyl has surged into Western states, such as California, where meth has long been prevalent.
Parts of the Southeast and Appalachia have in recent years recorded rises in overdose fatalities as users increasingly died with meth and opioids in their systems, federal data show.
As with the illicit fentanyl trade, meth is made entirely from chemicals and is largely produced and distributed by Mexican drug cartels that make a potent version in clandestine labs and smuggle it north, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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We could stop most of this from crossing over the border if our politicians cared.
Isn’t that what killed George Floy...nevermind.
Anyone caught smuggling this garbage should be forced to eat it.
We allow ourselves to remain dependent on China for the bulk of our goods while they wage war on us with impunity.
Mex. is plenty complicit as well, drugs and invasion.
Meanwhile China Joe meets with China. Make China stop exporting Fentanyl? Only if the Biden Crime Family gets its beaks wet.
The meth & fentanyl mix is also sold as mdma and a poorly blended or dosed pill will kill.
Meth and Fentanyl are a deadly mixture like your mistress and you wife.
The driver of drug deaths is the sense of hopelessness among white Americans.
Why would anyone mix uppers and downers together? That was the #1 drug pusher reminder in the 70’s.
Another sign of a worsening economy.
It used to be cocaine and heroin. Now it’s meth and fentanyl.
Depopulation cocktail. The New World Order never rests.
“We could stop most of this from crossing over the border if our politicians cared.”
The Democrats like meth and fentanyl because they create permanent dependent classes of people. And then they use the addicts/homeless to destroy and devalue urban private property.
The Country Club Republicans do nothing about the problem because they like getting invited to cocktail parties with their Democrat friends.
Myself, I see the only way to end these problems is to execute drug dealers and impose trade embargoes on the countries smuggling this into the USA.
If thousands of Americans were getting killed every year by state sponsored terrorists we’d be at war.
State sponsored warfare can also come in the form of illegal and harmful drugs. This is not a ‘war on drugs’ it is a WAR OF DRUGS!! The drugs are the weapons being used to kill Americans every bit as effectively as bombs or bullets.
And the proper response is to dispense death and destruction to those who make war against America.
The cartels are paying the pols in DC.
They don’t give a damn about American deaths.
It’s acceptable losses.
My son was a meth addict a few short years ago. Meth is horrible on its own. Thank goodness he has been clean since before Fentanyl became a factor. I doubt he would have survived that complication. I was afraid he wouldn’t survive before it did. He has not crawled out of his career/ financial hole, but he is far, far better than he was. God is good.
I wonder who is going to have to OD and die before Dems take this seriously.
Mr. Struggle,
You how owe 45 Trillion dollars.
I dont care.
It’s time to start executing hard drug traffickers. Coke, heroin, meth, fentanyl = lead to the head.
Very happy to hear that!
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