while everyone is hyperventillating about covid and the lies behind it, or trying to replace your aircon, refrigerator, and gas stove to stop global warming, the real problems are ignored
Ninethousand people a month die of drug overdoses. Ho hum.
and no one seems to want to actually solve it because it means making China mad, and it makes the liberals mad because it means stopping the open border, declaring a war against drug pushers and actually putting them in jail, something that made Kamela Harris popular but now Cornel West says was a crime against humanity. (hey, dead drugies and people dead from druggie criminals is never seen as a problem by those human rights folk, but kill a pusher and the human rights folk will be on your back, as Duterte found out here in the Philippines).
Well, anyway, the latest way to get a longer stronger high from Fentanyl is to mix it with Xylazine: a horse tranquillizer in the same family (alpha antagonist) as clonidine, which is used to lower BP and to alleviate the gitteryness of withdrawing from opioids.
Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl–Involved Overdose Deaths with Detected Xylazine — United States, January 2019–June 2022
Among 21 jurisdictions, the monthly percentage of IMF-involved deaths with xylazine detected increased 276% from January 2019 (2.9%) to June 2022 (10.9%). During January 2021–June 2022 in 32 jurisdictions, xylazine was detected in a higher percentage of IMF-involved deaths in the Northeast U.S. Census Bureau region; listing xylazine as cause of death varied across jurisdictions.
sigh. Like a lot of the CDC reports, the don't mention the actual data you need, like numbers of folks dying.
But hey the UK Mail has that for you.
An update by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that in the year to February there were up to 109,940 drug overdose deaths, which the agency said was probably 'an underestimate'.
That is the equivalent of 9,161 deaths per month, which experts warned was like a jet full of Americans crashing and burning almost every day...
and it is getting worse:
There are major concerns about a deadly new cocktail of fentanyl and an animal tranquilizer — xylazine — that is cropping up in US drug
this drug prolongs the high of the fentanyl but increases the sedation (i.e. sedation that causes deaths). So even if you get Narcan, it won't work in Xylazine, which has it's own addiction and overdose problems. And to make things worse: It can cause terrible ulcers on the skin.
How bad is it? Fox news says the addicts are longing for the good old days of heroin.
On the arms and legs, the wounds might look like a portion of flesh was carved out or maybe a minutes-old chemical burn. Hands and feet may be swollen almost out of recognition.
Sometimes the wounds become hardened tissue. Sometimes they fester and ooze.
"The tranq dope literally eats your flesh," Brooke Peder, a 38-year-old Kensington resident known as the Hood Grandma told The New York Times. Her leg had been amputated because of a tranq-induced infection.
ah, but President Biden is working on it.
Put more narcan on the streets to save overdoses. Good. and of course add that part of "Increased research and data collection are a priority, Gupta said, "to see the full picture of this threat."
and the FDA is going to make sure the legal Xylazine is going to the vets who need it.
we took action to help ensure that any xylazine entering the U.S. through legitimate importation pathways is, in fact, headed to valid animal drug manufacturing or research facilities. So far, we’ve found four shipments of unapproved xylazine via our import pathways and placed alerts to watch for incoming shipments from three firms.
Well, duh. This is like when percocet was being used widely, the DEA made it hard for docs to prescribe pain pills to people with pain, so a bunch of pain clinic docs got into legal trouble. But of course most of the overdoses were drugs stolen from actual patients, or more commonly illicit percocet via Mexican drug cartel, and so terrorizing docs by threatening their license didn't stop most of the abuse.
Attention Mr President: the press actually covers this problem. Chinese companies openly sell both Fentanyl and Xylazine on line. a quick google will get you in touch with these companies.
So Biden is going to ask China to cooperate in stopping it. Good luck with that, fellahs.
China has a big drug problem and is very strict in arresting and even executing pushers. But the big companies find loopholes to sell it openly.
which is why, as a person living in a country where bribery gifts are given over the table, under the table and with the table (as one local wag put it) I laugh when I read stuff like this article discussing regulations to stop the trade from drug companies in China and India.
the problem? Corruption. If you have companies willing to lie, and regulators who believe the lies then the process is flawed
that article even laments that a lot of the stuff comes in mislabled, so it's not stopped. Imagine that.
But maybe someone will actually do something with teeth to at least try to stop this illicit drug trade:
Senator Shumer, an honest lefti, is cooperating with some Republicans to impose sanctions on China:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will push to include in upcoming defense policy legislation a bipartisan amendment to sanction China over its alleged role in producing the synthetic opioid fentanyl, he said on Sunday...
The Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., was not immediately available for comment.
Beijing has accused Washington previously of using the fentanyl crisis as a pretext for imposing sanctions on Chinese companies and has offered to work with other nations to tackle drug problems.
Chinese state media have repeatedly described addiction and demand for the drug as U.S. domestic problems.
Schumer said the amendment, proposed by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and Republican Senator Tim Scott, would authorize the White House to declare fentanyl trafficking a national emergency and open the door to sanctions.
Go get'em Chuck.
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