Officials seized more than 115 million pills containing fentanyl in 2023. The opiate is often mixed with street drugs and linked to overdoses.
Counterfeit fentanyl pills are being seized by law enforcement in the United States at an unprecedented rate. A study published May 13, 2024, in the International Journal of Drug Policy indicated that more than 115 million pills containing illicit fentanyl were seized by US law enforcement in 2023.
The researchers behind the study said the number had grown from 71 million pills in 2022 and 50,000 pills in 2017.
The counterfeit fentanyl pills are made to look like legal prescription opioid medication — such as oxycodone and tramadol — but are often far deadlier than the originals.
“Fentanyl in pill form is now beginning to dominate the drug supply [in the US]. Pills are easy to ship and disguise and can also be marketed easily, as Americans have a reputation of loving their pills,” said the study’s lead author Joseph Palamar of NYU Langone Health in the US.
Congratulations to drugs for winning the “war on drugs”.
Fuck Nixon for coining that phrase. You can’t mitigate drug use with constraint. Addicts find a way. It’s mitigated with rehabilitative treatment. For those who claim that rehab doesn’t stick, I’d like to see how incarceration does.
About the closest we could ever get to picking a fight with a god.
Incarceration absolutely does stick.
I have bad news for you. 65% of prisoners have active substance abuse problems. Prisoners are statistically more likely to develop an addiction than recover from one.
That was my point. They’re locking people up in order to create a criminal underclass that can be exploited and used to scare the rest of the population. High recidivism rates are part of the design.
I follow. My prior comment was intended to compare efficacy of incarceration vs. rehabilitation in mitigating illicit drug use and addiction in the nation.
I agree that this would be a better way to go about things. But the US “justice” system isn’t interested in mitigation.
Shout out to terror too
We’re going to win the trade war for sure.
China has been supplying the cartel w fentanyl. It’s another facet of asymmetrical warfare
Now, I’m not saying China are the good guys or anything.
However, if I wanted to stop a rogue American security agency from selling heroin to fund secret, illegal wars around the world, I’d pump Mexico full of fentanyl.
legalize genuine drugs how about that
This won’t stop china from smuggling fentanyl into the states.
Sure it would. Why would people buy possibly-adulterated shit from a sketchy street dealer if they could just buy it over-the-counter at the drugstore and be assured that it was labeled accurately?
The same reason people buy street weed instead of buying it from a dispensary
Because its still significantly cheaper in most states? Just make sure it’s just as cheap as illicit Fentanyl products. Most opoid addicts would pay more anyways, because the duration is much longer than Fentanyl.
Its soma to keep the dissent quenched
Tinfoil take: if crack was a CIA op, fent also is, they’re just targeting all drug users. They think if they make it all deadly and dangerous, everyone’ll stop. There’s some christofascist psychos who think “addicts deserve it” and they should cull the populace, just like they thought PoC deserved it with crack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Alliance_(book) Is the original expose about cia involvement with crack, and still I think a good starting place, even if it has some flaws. It was less about what crack would do to americans, (though they were completely apathetic towards the harm they were doing in the US) and more to do with what the cia wanted to do with off books funding that crack provided, secretly fund paramilitary deathsquads in Nicaragua.
I think if the CIA is still involved in US drug trafficking, and I wouldn’t be surprised, it is probably still for off books funding primarily.
Anybody watching back the hit TV series, E.R., observe how earlier in the series during an emergency the docs would ask the nurses for administration of “Oxy” and “Hydro” and later in the series they would ask for “Fent”.
Street names.
Tell me the producers of those drugs did not pay off the producers of the show to fit that in.
Highly addictive drug product placement.
Unreal.I don’t think drug manufacturers want their products associated with pill-seeking addicts. A simpler explanation is that the show reflects reality.
There wasn’t the opioid epidemic we now have when those episodes came out. Those drug companies making synthetic were just getting started.
And there’s no reality. Patient comes in unconscious from an unknown malady and Stamo’s character is like, “Chem 7, CBC, Fent lollipop!”
