U.S. seizes enough fentanyl to kill all Americans in 2022

U.S. law enforcement seized more than enough fentanyl to kill all Americans in 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday, underscoring the deep threat of the deadly man-made opioid.

A drug epidemic not started by gangbangers and cartels but billionaire, well-connected oligarchs like the Sackler family.

A drug epidemic not started by gangbangers and cartels but billionaire, well-connected oligarchs like the Sackler family.

So right, and that makes it a lost war..

With gun violence, criminal health system, loss of homes

and racism those are some of the rotten pots and lost wars of the US..

All of them contribute to US loss of world hegemony..

Third world..

So right, and that makes it a lost war.. 

Not entirely, but not willing to seal the border doesn’t help at all, that’s just obvious.

With gun violence, criminal health system, loss of homes.

When you refuse to enforce the law, declare war on law enforcement and force Americans to foot the bill based on policies that continue to fail the nation is a reflection of a deeply failed government.

and racism those are some of the rotten pots and lost wars of the US…

Racism is a universal cancer not regulated, created nor unique only and solely to US.

All of them contribute to US loss of world hegemony..

No, failed political policies and the next 2 years will expedite that decline

Third world..

Getting there sadly

Good job DEA and other Law Enforcement agencies!

Drug dealers selling fentanyl should be charged with murder and attempted murder and given long prison sentences. Mexico needs help to stop the chemicals from arriving from China.

America needs to do more to lower drug demand.

America needs to do more to lower drug demand.

Defunding the police, allowing the border to remain open as it currently is, is not helping the situation, quite the opposite.

A drug epidemic not started by gangbangers and cartels but billionaire, well-connected oligarchs like the Sackler family.

Nope. This article is about the illicit fentanyl market, which kills the vast majority of people. The drug is often mixed in heroin, cocaine, etc, without the users knowing.

Who's responsible? Chinese organized crime. When the RCMP in Canada traced the source of illicit fentanyl a few years back, in all 20 cases, the chemicals were found to have come from southeastern China. Production has since spread to Mexico, but much of the ingredients are still Chinese.

Strange why the Chinese gangsters don't ship or sell any of it to, say, Hong Kong, which is about a million times closer to the production facilities. No doubt, it has much to do with HK's "zero tolerance" drug policy, in contrast to America's accommodative "harm reduction" approach. Or maybe something more nefarious is going on.

Drug addictions and abuse begin with education, therapy, and addict clinics. Not with law enforcement arresting addicts.

Fentanyl is a national problem, not just any single state. There is nothing new with the current drug problem existing for decades. The country has spent $1 trillion on its drug war.

*Nope. This article is about the illicit fentanyl market, which kills the vast majority of people. The drug is often mixed in heroin, cocaine, etc, without the users knowing.*

Wrong and the same drug war cant.

Enacting a total control police state and funding the police with more military weapons won't stop the corporations who promote new opioids and the banks that freely launder cartel assets.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/19/big-pharma-money-lobbying-us-opioid-crisis

According to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 40.3 million people aged 12 or older had a past-year substance use disorder. Meanwhile, more than four out of five Americans who need treatment for illicit drug use do not receive it.

More than 104,000 Americans died due to a drug overdose in the 12-month period ending in September 2021

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/01/fact-sheet-addressing-addiction-and-the-overdose-epidemic/

22 million people suffer from active substance use disorders. 45 million people are directly impacted by addiction.

https://www.theedgetreatment.com/addiction-statistics-2021/

Drug addictions and abuse begin with education, therapy, and addict clinics.

That’s just a no brainer standard requirement, but the public schools and Stanford are more vested in trying to teach and change the English language.

Not with law enforcement arresting addicts.

Then you have California, Oregon, New York and Washington State. Not arresting or unwilling to arrest and detain or prosecute drug dealers will only encourage more usage, sales people wanting to jump into the trade. Why not if there are no repercussions?

Fentanyl is a national problem, not just any single state. There is nothing new with the current drug problem existing for decades. The country has spent $1 trillion on its drug war.

That liberal style attitude think process is in big part the reason why the country is in the state that it’s in. Yeah, nothing new…smh

"Further complicating matters is the fact that the U.S. doesn’t have one “criminal justice system;” instead, we have thousands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems. Together, these systems hold almost 2 million people in 1,566 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,850 local jails, 1,510 juvenile correctional facilities, 186 immigration detention facilities, and 82 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories. "

"Drug offenses still account for the incarceration of almost 400,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system. Police still make over 1 million drug possession arrests each year, many of which lead to prison sentences."

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html

21% of the people in Texas prisons are there for drug-related charges.

The Ten Most Drug-Addicted States in America

https://www.addictions.com/blog/the-ten-most-drug-addicted-states-in-america/

Drug addictions and abuse begin with education, therapy, and addict clinics. 

Not on Japan, where most of us live. It does start and stop with "education." Japanese children are taught: "narcotics are evil. Don't take them. If you do, you're a hard core criminal and will spend a long time in jail."

The message seems to work. The illicit drug problem here is a tiny fraction of what it is in the US other Western countries.

Similar situation in many other Asian countries with zero-tolerance, high-criminalization policies. Therapy? How does cold turkey sound?

Further complicating matters is the fact that the U.S. doesn’t have one “criminal justice system;” instead, we have thousands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems. Together, these systems hold almost 2 million people in 1,566 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,850 local jails, 1,510 juvenile correctional facilities, 186 immigration detention facilities, and 82 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories. "

That is why we Are called the “United States.”

"Drug offenses still account for the incarceration of almost 400,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system. Police still make over 1 million drug possession arrests each year, many of which lead to prison sentences."

Seal the border, send as many illegals back as possible, stop defunding the police, hire more, increase their pay, unchain them and allow them broader discretion and arresting powers, District attorneys should prosecute any drug offenders to the fullest extent of the law and end no cash bail. Again, you want to make it as painful as you can to these people, and it won’t stop fentanyl and drugs, coming across in America, but it can severely impact them and slows them down, which is more than enough in curtailing deaths.

https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/democrats-blocked-the-halt-fentanyl-act-again/

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr.1LcEcqJju8EEBP5x.9w4;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzgEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1671619204/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.lawenforcementtoday.com%2fhouse-democrats-block-bill-aimed-to-fight-fentanyl-epidemic%2f/RK=2/RS=yGjWsEynpfb7ZTj0A4GyUECam_E-

Bass: Not arresting or unwilling to arrest and detain or prosecute drug dealers

Which state is refusing to arrest drug dealers?

That liberal style attitude think process is in big part the reason why the country is in the state that it’s in. Yeah, nothing new…smh

Nah, right-wingers are unwilling to ever admit that their failed policies have failed, so they keep doubling down on the war on drugs, decade after decade, while drug usage has only gone up and up. If right-wingers had any clue of what they were doing, the War on Drugs would have already won. Instead, the war on drugs is a bigger failure than Vietnam and Iraq.

US seizes enough fentanyl to kill all Americans in 2022:

50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl & ~5000 kg powder equivalent to 380 million potentially deadly doses are seized in 2002.

In a nation where drugs rule supreme, nothing is left to be said anymore.

Which state is refusing to arrest drug dealers?

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/left-wing-prosecutor-soft-alien-drug-dealers-so-they-werent-deported

Which state is refusing to arrest drug dealers?

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/left-wing-prosecutor-soft-alien-drug-dealers-so-they-werent-deported

Nothing in that article supports the assertion that the state was refusing to arrest drug dealers.

One million people are in prison for drugs. That is not working. The American drug problem has nothing to do with immigrants crossing the border. The Mexican cartels run the drugs north and bring back guns the other way.

The chemicals need to be tracked from China. The Fentanyl factories need to be located in Mexico. There is legitimate truck traffic crossing the border both ways and it's impossible to check the cargo of every one of them.

The DEA said it had captured 50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder during the year, calling it the equivalent of "more than 379 million potentially deadly doses."

That is a big success but not 100%. Fentanyl is very dangerous for drug officers.

The House is now Republican so what will the GOP do?

One million people are in prison for drugs. That is not working.

It helps, a lot. Especially if the sentences are more severe.

The American drug problem has nothing to do with immigrants crossing the border.

Oh, yes it does. It does 110% because the cartels use them as mules

The Mexican cartels run the drugs north and bring back guns the other way.

As well as through the Southern border. Why won’t Biden go down to the border? Why won’t he talk to the people along the border that live there?

The chemicals need to be tracked from China.

That’s an entirely different topic that needs its own thread

The Fentanyl factories need to be located in Mexico. There is legitimate truck traffic crossing the border both ways and it's impossible to check the cargo of every one of them.

Of course, but that doesn’t mean you give up or just say, screw it, you continue to search through the vehicles, you continue to hire more people to saturate the area to look for more offenders, you make it as difficult as you can.

That is a big success but not 100%. Fentanyl is very dangerous for drug officers.

We know, it seems like this administration doesn’t.

The House is now Republican so what will the GOP do?

Since this administration has failed miserably in this endeavor, we shall see what the GOP will do after 1/3 next year.

bass4funk

you claimed people were not being prosecuted for drugs. One million is nearly 50% of the total prison population. But it has done nothing to change the situation. 40 million Americans have a drug addiction problem.

Large quantities of Fentanyl cross the border in trucks transporting legitimate cargo. It was happening during the previous president.

Tracking chemicals from China should be a priority.

you claimed people were not being prosecuted for drugs.

I already explained

Americans have a drug addiction problem.

Yes, and open drug centers legalizing drugs is not the answer.

Large quantities of Fentanyl cross the border in trucks transporting legitimate cargo. It was happening during the previous president.

And what is the current President doing about it? Not even acknowledging it.

Tracking chemicals from China should be a priority.

i agree, it should be. Two years and….nothing

@ SuperLib

And they say parody and satire is dead! That was spot on!

I didn't have the patience or stomach to do it . Well done!

The rhetoric, usually coming from the alt-right on such topics such as the horrible opioid crisis, devalues the discourse and deserves to be mocked mercilessly.

bass4funk

your suggestions won't solve the Fentanyl or drug problems. Your only concern is taking a political side and then blaming the other side for all the evils like they never existed before. Drugs have been a part of America for more than 150 years.

Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson. Many musicians used drugs. Miles Davis.

Your answer, close the border to all traffic including trucks. Put all the drug addicts in prisons with the already one million there.

Nothing happened with the drug problem when the Republicans were in power.

The governments have failed to resolve the problems. Do you oppose legalising drugs like cannabis which many states have done?

Two years and….nothing

The war on drugs is only two years old. Riiiiiiiiiight.

Addiction in America. 40 million Americans struggle with addiction, but many don't get the treatment they need. It doesn't have to be this way.

Drug addiction costs America $740 billion per year. Equal to the National Defense Budget.

https://www.shatterproof.org/learn/addiction-basics/addiction-in-america

Addiction in America. 40 million Americans struggle with addiction, but many don't get the treatment they need. It doesn't have to be this way.

Ok and this administration is doing what for that?

Drug addiction costs America $740 billion per year. Equal to the National Defense Budget.

Maybe if we cut off aid to Ukraine we can tackle the drug problem

bass4funk

   your suggestions won't solve the Fentanyl or drug problems.

> I never said nor implied that, but legalizing them won’t help either. But harsher prison sentences will give some pause. Incarnations, give severe penalties to repeat offenders and end no cash bail. It helps.

No one wants to legalise drugs that can carry Fentanyl. It would be very difficult to lace cannabis with Fentanyl. But I think there is no profit margin there so they go after the drugs that addicts. Cocaine, Heroin, Meth.No drug user should be in prison, it does not resolve the problem. In fact in private prisons drugs are easier to obtain than on the streets.

Therapy and addiction centers are what is needed. Medical care and healthcare. The country is always losing $750 billion pa.

   Your only concern is taking a political side

> Yes, because this administration wants to blame the previous when they’re now in power and besides throwing the blame game what re they doing? 75% of the nation think this administration is on the wrong track and their only solution is: Trump’s taxes.

There is nothing in this article where Democrats are blaming Republicans. Not even mentioned. You take everything to the political level and blame the game.

   Your answer, close the border to all traffic including trucks.

> I already gave my answer to that. Again, why will these liberal not talk to the people that live near the border or the border patrol?

You want to close the borders so how will trade happen?

   The governments have failed to resolve the problems.

> And again, liberal foreigners think they have the solutions and they never do

FYI In the UK I worked with drug addiction agencies like Release and have years of personal experience.

No one wants to legalise drugs that can carry Fentanyl.

A d this WH is doing what exactly?

Therapy and addiction centers are what is needed.

That as well as prisons.

There is nothing in this article where Democrats are blaming Republicans.

But they do it 24/7 always

You want to close the borders so how will trade happen?

That question was just incoherent. Come on now