US Fentanyl is eliminating the Mexican opium farmers
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And then, they are saying that Mexico is sending drugs to the USA but the real drugs producers are legally inside. Many Mexican opium farmers have been forced to comeback to Marihuana, and also the USA is becoming the biggest planter of Cannabis. If the business continue growing the USA might become a Cannabis exporter, when it comes from outside it is called drug trafficking but when it is going to outside of the country it is called good business
Not really clued up on all this.
But I believe Fentanyl is a substitute for heroin and has similar affects and is used to cut heroin.
It is cheap to produce I think and more powerful per mg and thus is easier and more lucrative to smuggle in as it packs a bigger punch.
Incidentally?
“….Early reports suggested that colonel Skripal and the unnamed woman may have been exposed to the synthetic drug, Fentanyl, which is up to 10,000 times more powerful than heroin and has been linked to scores of deaths in the UK….”
The doctors very early on said they had suspected and treated them for it.
They are making in China for nothing $ wise and bringing it into the US via mexico apparently.
I have been led to believe that is true rather than Trump nonsense.
The demand is quite high know as big pharmaceuticals have been peddling and pushing opiod based ‘pain killers’; and large sections of the US population got to like it and are now hooked.
Now that they are clamping down on doctors prescriptions the addicts are finding other sources.
The overdose and death rates in the US are phenomenal.
…number of opiod overdoses has increased in recent years, in part due to the increased use of opioids in the management of chronic non-cancer pain<sup>1</sup>. In the United States of America alone in 2016, there were an estimated 63 632 deaths due to drug overdose, which is a 21% increase from previous years. This was largely due to a rise in deaths associated with prescription opioids. This group of opioids (excluding methadone) was implicated in 19 413 deaths in the country, more than double the number in 2015…..
https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/information-sheet/en/
Things used to be bad in the inner city UK 10-15 years ago and we had the crack cocaine thing.
Smack heads would rob your house crack users would go in for mugging as well, thing seem to be better know maybe were a live has got better?
It ‘seems’ less of a problem anyway.
Yes, it is a substitute for heroin, it has the same effect, it is more powerful than morphine, and it is cheaper to produce, and it is easier to be introduced in different countries, and it is more lucrative than Heroin, cocaine, cracks, and marihuana, a kilo cost between 80, 000 to 100,000, that is reason why it is killing the poppy planters in Mexico. The treatment with Naloxone is more expensive than the treatment with Methadone and the duration is longer, and it is less risky, and it is a partial agonist instead of full agonist like Methadone
Our comrade Stephen Shenfield in the US has an article in the Poliquads online magazine issue on the opioid epidemic there:
https://www.poliquads.com/post/capitalist-responsibility-and-opioids
and also a rejoinder to an anarcho-capitalist take on the problem:
https://www.poliquads.com/post/anarcho-coalitionism-and-the-opioid-epidemic
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