One seizure in AZ enough to kill 115,000,000 people.
Shit is cumming in disguised as PEZ, Flintstones vitamins, Sidewalk Chalk etc.
Fiscal 2022 enough Fentanyl seized at the boarder to kill 4,581,000,000 That's not an error 4.5 Billion fatal doses & that's just what was seized.
With the Boarder far more porous under the imbecile in the high castle. There's got to be way more getting past now vs prior to 2020.
@sirhrmechanic - I know addicts with long term recovery that have gone on to get PHD's, several. Also Lawyers, business owners etc.
Actually I'm married to one. She had 5 years in recovery when we got married. She first became an RN, then BSN, MSN, & now PHD. Over 20 fantastic years of marriage. She's helped many & continues to do so.
Another friend & PHD in Psychiatry, a Professor in Chicago has been on CNN several times advocating against Methadone/Soboxone.
Teens are dying in my area from smoking pot that was laced with Fentanyl. If I'm at a concert and I see someone nod out, damn straight I will hit them with Narcan.
What are you more likely to need in the course of the next 5 - 10 years, a tourniquet
or a dose of Narcan? Honestly I think in the current climate I'm far more likely to use Narcan than CPR. It's been 10 years since I needed to used CPR.
Vivatrol is different - Unlike replacements such as Methadone that do get you high & are just as addictive as Heroin. Vivatrol simply blocks the receptors & thus prevents an addict from getting high if they use opiates. Removes the incentive, non addictive, time release so lasts 30 days. It's not a stand alone solution, but it should be an integral part of one that does not include handing the addict more/different drugs.
Here is a hypothetical to ponder. If every arrest for possession, OD response, etc led to court mandated detox followed by Vivatrol injections for 1-2 years it would make a huge dent in this problem. It would however, also make a huge dent in a lot of wallets. We've seen the lengths they will go to re: the covid vax. If they didn't stand to profit & actually gave a shit they'd close the fucking boarder & promote abstinence for addicts. Instead they push drug replacement "therapy" via Methadone, Soboxone, Psychotropics, Anti Depressants etc, thus perpetuating and enabling addiction. They actually now put inmates that aren't opiate abusers on Methadone/Soboxone. They come out addicts WTF. About 90% of the mass shooters going back to & including Columbine were on prescription Psychotropics. Adding that to inmates and then early releasing them is lunacy! It's like a chemically induced spiritual & mental Lobotomy. People on that shit are more suggestible & act on more base behavior patterns like we see in the Antifa/BLM riots. I'd like to no what percentage of those aholes were medicated, but we'll never know cause they didn't even bother arresting them. Of course they wouldn't want any light shed on this little secret. To Cynical? Maybe so, but they give us reason to be.
Wife and I tried helping a young lady (new mother) into treatment about a year ago. I called no less than a dozen rehabs. Every single one of them, if they accept a dime from State or Fed gov. pushes drug replacement therapy. Told me they had to. Drug rehab's that hand out drugs, not even optional, mandatory. Think about that. The message sent to the addict is, sure drugs are the solution, you've just been doing the wrong one's, what you really need is this one from Pfizer, Merk etc etc. They profited by heavily contributing to the wide spread opiate epidemic, and now they're profiting from the treatment. The profits from the treatment end are baked in and mandatory due to strings that come attached to money for treatment. Good job lobbyist's Fuckers!!!
If you know anyone that needs treatment make sure it's private (if you can afford it). If they take insurance they mandate drug treatment for drug treatment! Does that sound crazy to anyone else or am I on an Island here?
Our tax dollars are being used to create and perpetuate addiction while lining the pockets of big Pharma & politicians war chests. What we need is a bureaucratic purge top to bottom.
Here is another clue. Alkermes Headquartered in Ireland produces the brand name of the injectable version of naltrexone known as Vivatrol.
Not big pharma so yeah most likely suppressed by big Pharma lobbyists.
Seriously read Dreamland if you want to get more informed. If you do be mindful that, since it was written big Pharma has shifted their focus to profiting from the treatment end of addiction, just as fucking evil if not more so IMO.
35 years ago recovery from addiction meant Freedom from addiction. Now recovery from addiction includes perpetual addiction. That's not evolution, it's Devilution (not a misspell, pun intended).