U.S. drug overdose deaths surpass 107,000 last year, another record

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The strategy focuses heavily on disrupting the illicit flow of drugs like synthetic opioids into the U.S. by targeting drug trafficking from both Mexico and China — something Republicans have been hammering President Joe Biden on regarding his immigration and border policies.

Since the start of the 21st century, an overdose epidemic led by prescription pain pills and followed by waves of heroin, fentanyl and meth has killed more than 1 million people, or roughly the population of San Jose, according to the provisional data.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/11/drug-overdose-deaths-cdc-numbers/
 
you can't get pain pills from your doctor for chronic or even temporary relief
the DEA cracked down on the sheer number allowed to prescribe to curb OverDose deaths
So you live in pain while illegal opioids (fentanyl, heroin) are more available then ever
 
THANKFULLY THE MEXICAN BORDER IS WIDE OPEN, MAKING DRUG SMUGGLING MUCH EASIER FOR THE CARTELS PAYING KICKBACKS TO THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY.....
 
Grokmaster said:
THANKFULLY THE MEXICAN BORDER IS WIDE OPEN, MAKING DRUG SMUGGLING MUCH EASIER FOR THE CARTELS PAYING KICKBACKS TO THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY.....
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China produces the raw product and ships it to Mexico.
Mexico uses "pill presses" to manufacture the illegal knock offs - the cartels use Chinese banks
to launder the money
 
anatta said:
The strategy focuses heavily on disrupting the illicit flow of drugs like synthetic opioids into the U.S. by targeting drug trafficking from both Mexico and China — something Republicans have been hammering President Joe Biden on regarding his immigration and border policies.

Since the start of the 21st century, an overdose epidemic led by prescription pain pills and followed by waves of heroin, fentanyl and meth has killed more than 1 million people, or roughly the population of San Jose, according to the provisional data.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/11/drug-overdose-deaths-cdc-numbers/
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Yet the U.S. population of over 300 million far exceeds the drug overdose rates that have always been a problem throughout history. Now aside from harping on this issue against the U.S., consider the rest of the world is not living high in complete health serenity:

People who inject drugs
People who inject drugs are at increased risk of HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and viral hepatitis B and C (HBV and HCV), in addition to overdose. Globally, around 11 million people inject drugs. Approximately 1 in 8 (or 1.4 million) of these people are living with HIV (UNODC World Drug Report, 2020), while 39.4% have viremic HCV infection (Grebely et al., Addiction, 2019).

Injecting drug use accounts for approximately 10% of new HIV infections globally (UNAIDS, 2020). And an estimated 23–39% of new HCV infections occur among people who inject drugs. Globally, 1 in 3 HCV deaths are attributable to injecting drug use. In some regions, such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia, prevalence rates for both HIV and HCV are particularly high. Furthermore, there are approximately 2.3 million HIV–HCV co-infections worldwide, of which more than half (1.3 million) occur in people who inject drugs (WHO, 2016)."

https://www.who.int/teams/global-hi...rogrammes/populations/people-who-inject-drugs
 
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