FACTS FOR U......EDUCATE THY SELF

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When we saw that more than 100,000 people were dying every year from fatal drug overdoses — the highest total ever — we felt an urgent need to find out why that was happening. Our reporting took us in different directions, from Mexican ports and Tijuana to San Diego, suburban Denver and Utah. But that startling statistic compelled all of us to try to uncover how the catastrophe happened, why it was happening and who was dying from what has become the worst narcotics crisis in U.S. history.


As fentanyl takes a greater and greater toll, I think there’s been a tendency to talk about it as some kind of supernatural force that appeared out of nowhere to inflict an awful national misfortune. What we found, instead, was an epidemic with specific origins, made worse by some accumulating mistakes and institutional failures.

No one we with spoke with for the series thinks we’re close to turning a corner on the crisis.

I do wonder if a certain percentage of hard drug users will quit since they can no longer trust their suppliers. Heroin addiction goes in and out of fashion. As does cocaine and speed. Will cocaine users quit rather than risk a fentanyl overdose?
Or will the border get locked down?

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“During the past seven years, as soaring quantities of fentanyl flooded into the United States, strategic blunders and cascading mistakes by successive U.S. administrations allowed the most lethal drug crisis in American history to become significantly worse, a Washington Post investigation has found,” they wrote.

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49, according to a Post analysis. More than car accidents, suicides, or gun violence.
More than 9 million Americans “misused opioids” in 2020, according to the latest estimates by the Department of Health and Human Services. But HHS doesn’t have figures for fentanyl.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot track overdose deaths in real-time. Its published data is one year behind. CDC’s provisional tally for 2021 set the overall number of drug overdoses at 107,622, two thirds of those from

So no comments on why fentanyl is flooding across our southern border? Who is in charge of the border right now and WHY THE F$$K are they not doing anything about it??

These demons who are lying to us daily have soooo much blood on their hands and their party is SILENT.

“During the past seven years, as soaring quantities of fentanyl flooded into the United States, strategic blunders and cascading mistakes by successive U.S. administrations allowed the most lethal drug crisis in American history to become significantly worse, a Washington Post investigation has found,” they wrote.

SEVEN YEARS INCLUDES TRUMP'S ADM.......LET'S ASK,HIM????

President Trump was replaced by President Biden. The border is now less secure than before. Joe's administration has sued to take down the border wall Arizona built with stacked shipping containers.
Will he be replaced due to his incompetence?

THAT is a comment that makes no sense.....TRUMP WAS INCLUDED IN THOSE SEVEN YEARS of ignorance to the facts on the ground. (the wall did not stop the flow)......

President Trump tried to build the Wall but a bipartisan group from the legislative branch fought him at every step.

So it seems laughable that you blame President Trump for failing to stop fentanyl smuggling when the cartels and Pelosi/McConnell joined up to stop wall construction.

OH PLEASE, the cartels r extraordinarily organized and OUR gov. is so dysfunctional,the blame is on EVERYONE'S SHOULDERS ....SEVEN YEARS is an obscene number for our gov NOT to be aware.

The cartels influence Mexican politics. Do they also influence American politics? Not only in the border states, but also nationally.
Lax drug laws in the United States have caused the cartels to expand to human smuggling to generate income, plus importing deadly fentanyl.

Meanwhile American urban areas prepare for an onslaught of more illegal aliens from all over Latin America as 42 goes into effect.