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09-28-2022 03:22 PM
@Porcelain wrote:Well done, Federal DEA! Law enforcement is on a roll! Roll them all up.
They are talking about this in Reno too. I just texted my granddaughter and told her not to take candy from anyone
09-28-2022 03:46 PM
"The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. - Makayla Cox, a high school student in the state of Virginia, thought she was taking medication that her friend had procured to treat pain and anxiety.
Instead, the pill she took two weeks after her sixteenth birthday was fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin. It killed her almost instantly.
After watching a movie -- a prequel to "Harry Potter" -- with her mother Shannon one evening in January, Makayla appeared fine as she headed to her bedroom with her husky dog that often slept on her bed.
'One pill can kill'
At the agency’s headquarters, a collection of photographs titled "Faces of Fentanyl" hangs in the hallway. It features dozens of portraits of people who recently lost their lives to fentanyl. One of them reads "Makayla. Forever 16."
An honor-roll student and a cheerleader, Makayla liked to paint, cuddle with her two huskies, Maize and Malenkai, and planned to go to university to study law, said her mother Shannon Doyle, 41, who works as a paralegal in a loan service firm.
Makayla had battled anxiety after her parents’ divorce, but things got worse during the pandemic.
Last summer she started a job at a water park, where she met a friend who introduced her to counterfeit prescription drugs.
The blue pills found in Makayla’s bed turned out to be 100 percent fentanyl. Police are investigating, but so far no arrests have been made.
"It used to be that when you were addicted to drugs you had five, 10, 15 years to try and get over your addiction and get the help and change your life," Shannon said at her house in Virginia Beach. "You don't have that chance anymore."
Last year the DEA launched a campaign called "One pill can kill" to raise awareness of the dangers of fentanyl, and there are efforts across America to make naloxone, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose, more easily available, including in schools.
Makayla’s ashes are in her bedroom and Shannon still peeks into the room every morning and evening, like she did when her daughter was alive.
She started a foundation in Makayla's name to help prevent similar tragedies -- a way, she says, helps her cope with her grief.
09-28-2022 03:57 PM
Morning lover, Thanks for explaining this to some of the posters on here. Obviously their not watching real news.Druggies are not taking fentanyl to get high. It kills you instantly!
Not considered overdose either, it s poisioning!
Wake up America!
09-28-2022 04:06 PM
Five-Year Death Rate: 37.6 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 3,239
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Cabell County – 87.7 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 27.2 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 1,695
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Strafford County – 33.2 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 26.1 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 14,340
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Montgomery County – 50 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 23 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 1,205
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Kent County – 24.6 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 22.3 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 7,481
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Barnstable County – 36.6 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 21.4 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 6,563
County or Equivalent With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Baltimore city – 51.2 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 20.9 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 4,428
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Harrison County – 60.1 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 19.7 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 3,459
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Litchfield County – 25.4 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 19.5 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 1,195
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Washington County – 39.9 deaths per 100,000
Five-Year Death Rate: 17.7 per 100,000
Total Opioid-Involved Deaths: 1,756
County With Highest Opioid-Involved Death Rate: Rio Arriba County – 80 deaths per 100,000
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/slideshows/10-states-hit-hardest-by-opioid-crisis
https://www.opioidtreatment.net/blog/states-with-highest-opioid-addiction-rates/
09-28-2022 04:47 PM
@gertrudecloset wrote:U.S. Citizen Consumers Fund Fentanyl Smuggling
U.S. consumer payments for illicit opioids ultimately fund fentanyl smuggling. Consumers pay retail dealers who pay wholesalers, and the cash is then transferred back in bulk cash form to Mexico. These funds are then used to pay smugglers to bring drugs back into the United States again. The best evidence indicates that about 99 percent of U.S. consumers of fentanyl (or products containing fentanyl) are U.S. citizens.[i] Noncitizens appear to be about 80 percent less likely to be fentanyl consumers than their share of the population would predict. Fentanyl smuggling is almost entirely conducted on behalf of U.S. citizen consumers. Of course, consumers would prefer much safer and legal opioids over illicit fentanyl, but the government has unfortunately forced them into the black market with few safe options.
U.S. Citizens Are Fentanyl Traffickers
Fentanyl is primarily trafficked by U.S. citizens. The U.S. Sentencing Commission publishes data on all federal convictions, which includes demographic information on individuals convicted of fentanyl trafficking. Figure 1 shows the citizenship status of fentanyl traffickers for 2018 to 2021. Every year, U.S. citizens receive the most convictions by far. In 2021, U.S. citizens accounted for 86.3 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions compared to just 8.9 percent for illegal immigrants.
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers
I guess the "fairy" must have removed this first time I posted (or maybe I didn't hit post)? Dunno.....
The truth hurts, people choose not to believe it. Drugs flow into the US because there's a huge market for them.
09-28-2022 04:48 PM
It s pouring over the open Southern border. It originates in China! We should be scared.
09-28-2022 05:21 PM
09-28-2022 05:32 PM
@gertrudecloset wrote:
@ollie5 wrote:It s pouring over the open Southern border. It originates in China! We should be scared.
Why should you be scared if you don't take this illicit street drug @ollie5 ?
Guess you are of the opinion, "let them kill themselves".
Unfortunately this in not the only drug being brought through the boarder. Perhaps you are fortunate enough not to have friends or family members who have drug problems. Yet with drug use comes crime, that should be everyone's concern.
09-28-2022 05:40 PM
No I m not a drug user. Think about where it originates, covid didn't work well enough but this is killing 300 people a day, that s like a plane crash everyday.
09-28-2022 05:59 PM
We should worry that some one could poison the food supplies with it !! Remember the tylenol poisonings years ago ? We have people shooting up churches and schools , it's just a matter of time for this stuff to end up in the food supplies !
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