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Direct Headline: Americans are overdosing on a drug they don't know they're taking
From May 2020 through April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US, according to provisional data released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....That's a horrible new record for drug overdose deaths -- a near-30% rise from the same period a year earlier and a near-doubling over the past five years....Synthetic opioids like fentanyl -- a painkiller 50-100 times more potent than morphine -- accounted for the bulk of those drug overdose deaths: around 64,000...Enough fentanyl to kill 333 million people.The US government has seized enough fentanyl this year to give every American a lethal dose, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram said Wednesday at a White House press briefing, calling the overdose epidemic in the US "a national crisis" that "knows no geographical boundaries, and it continues to get worse."...Deadly fakes that look like prescription pills. Illegal drugs are often made to look like prescription pills, available online and sold through social media, according to a US Drug Enforcement Administration warning in September....That same month the DEA announced more than 800 arrests and the seizure of more than 1.8 million pills as part of a two-month sweep. The agency noted fentanyl has been seized in every state and it issued an urgent warning in September about fake prescription pills laced with the drug....A scant 2 milligrams can be deadly, and they're often cut in with counterfeit Oxycontin, Percocet or other drugs....How does fentanyl get to the US? Chemicals used to make the drug are often shipped from China to...Mexico for production by drug cartels in Mexico and then smuggled to the US....The drug can come in small mailed shipments of less than a kilogram...
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN 5:58 AM ET, Thu November 18, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-what-matters/index.html
Direct Headline: Democrats astonishingly cheer fentanyl smuggling
Misguided Democrats like Eric Swalwell are actually arguing that more fentanyl crossing the border is a good thing. As anyone who pays even the smallest attention to the border knows, fentanyl seizures are used as a proxy for illicit drug trafficking. In other words, more seizures means more fentanyl is being smuggled across the border into the U.S., not less. This shows how little Democrats know about the border, and how little the American people can trust them to address the crisis Biden created.
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: “If they're seizing a lot, it's because a lot is coming in.” Retired Drug Enforcement Administration official Kyle Williamson, who has more than 30 years of experience on drug smuggling at the border: “It’s the worst it's ever been. There's no good news here. And the amount of methamphetamine and fentanyl coming in right now is unprecedented.”
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/n...tanyl-border-drug-problems-worsen/5830994001/
NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez: “Fentanyl being pushed through the desert around El Paso is up more than 355% compared to last year and 4000% than 2018.”
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1410036943749058569
CBS News’ Janet Shamlian: “Drugs coming across the border here are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the country, the toll of which can be counted in the skyrocketing number of overdose deaths…as agents say, the cartels use a flood of migrants to move a river of drugs.”
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1402775728081547266
Sheriffs in states like Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts are seeing a surge in fentanyl pills linked to border smuggling. Mexican officials have warned about a “boom time for gangs” as smuggling spikes at the border because of Biden’s policies. Even Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently conceded that “record” drug seizures show that the smuggling problem is now “even larger.”
And the problem is only getting worse. At least 899 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the border in October alone, equivalent to almost 204 million lethal doses. As thousands of illegal immigrants were camped in Del Rio because of Biden’s open borders agenda, up to 224 miles of the border were left unpatrolled, grounding to a halt the ability of Border Patrol to stop illegal drugs from entering the country.
Tommy Pigott Nov 18, 2021
https://gop.com/rapid-response/democrats-astonishingly-cheer-fentanyl-smuggling/
Direct Headline: Exclusive: 'Migrant president' Biden stirs Mexican angst over boom time for gangs
One Mexican official familiar with migration developments, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said organized crime began changing its modus operandi “from the day Biden took office” and now exhibited “unprecedented” levels of sophistication...That includes briefing clients on the latest immigration rules, using technology to outfox authorities, and disguising smuggling operations as travel agencies, assessments showed...“Migrants have become a commodity,” the official said, arguing they were now as valuable as drugs for the gangs. “But if a packet of drugs is lost in the sea, it’s gone. If migrants are lost, it’s human beings we’re talking about.”...Communicating via social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube, smugglers update migrants on impending checkpoints, when freight trains they can jump on pass, where to stay and how to navigate immigration laws...To ease their passage, smugglers advise Central American clients to register complaints with authorities saying they have been victims of extortion or, for young men, that they have faced death threats from street gangs, the assessments show....And, as in previous years, migrants are being told to bring along children to make it easier to apply for asylum....
By Dave Graham March 10, 20214:11 AM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-exclusive-idUSKBN2B21D8
VIDEO: Fentanyl (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller Apr 9, 2022 National Geographic
Fentanyl has turbocharged the deadliest drug crisis in American history. But less understood is how the drug has utterly transformed the black market. Mariana goes in search of the new bosses, new routes, new risks and the American communities paying the price for fentanyl’s next wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1nnnCPAKA
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Joe Biden (or his primary handlers) believes he will run for reelection in 2024 and win to remain President Of The United States.
His son, Hunter Biden, has had a long public history of drug addiction and drug abuse which has culminated into the infamous "laptop" that raises questions about Pay For Play influence from foreign entities into the Obama Administration when Biden was VPOTUS aka "The Big Guy"
While most of America and most political pundits will agree that the odds of Biden winning 2024 POTUS is slim to none, the best media optics move to limit the negative exposure of Hunter Biden and possible foreign influence payoffs is to block out any discussion of Hunter Biden's drug addictions from the activist complicit left leaning MSM. So that means it's probably a good media strategy to pretend like the huge current fentynal crisis in America doesn't exist. It casts too much negative light on Biden's insane Border policies and it just keeps bringing up the toxic indefensible Hunter Biden narrative to the forefront again and again and again in the national daily media cycle.
Keep in mind that Biden was in neck deep, along with Eric Holder, during the Operation Fast & Furious scandal during the Obama Administration, where your tax payer dollars was spent to give guns to the Sinaloa Cartel. And a recent scandal erupted when National Guardsman, Bishop Evans, died trying to save two drowning men learned later to be drug smugglers/drug mules, it also hashes up again that those OF&F weapons were used to kill Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry in 2010. The sitting POTUS who wrote the 94 Crime Bill that punished young black men in America has to media spin control out of a young African American Guardsman die over the lethal drugs that Biden's self inflicted Border Crisis is allowing to enter the country en masse to kill Americans and devastate the entire Republic. Plus since the drugs and precursors are coming from China, there's the ugly pathway where Biden bending the knee to the CCP over and over again doesn't help our national security and foreign policy. Don't want all those damaging narrative dredging up as well. Better to just pretend it didn't happen at all.....
My take? It's only been a year and a half into this administration's term. How much more death and destruction and chaos can be inflicted on the United States in the next two and a half years?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss now.
From May 2020 through April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US, according to provisional data released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....That's a horrible new record for drug overdose deaths -- a near-30% rise from the same period a year earlier and a near-doubling over the past five years....Synthetic opioids like fentanyl -- a painkiller 50-100 times more potent than morphine -- accounted for the bulk of those drug overdose deaths: around 64,000...Enough fentanyl to kill 333 million people.The US government has seized enough fentanyl this year to give every American a lethal dose, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram said Wednesday at a White House press briefing, calling the overdose epidemic in the US "a national crisis" that "knows no geographical boundaries, and it continues to get worse."...Deadly fakes that look like prescription pills. Illegal drugs are often made to look like prescription pills, available online and sold through social media, according to a US Drug Enforcement Administration warning in September....That same month the DEA announced more than 800 arrests and the seizure of more than 1.8 million pills as part of a two-month sweep. The agency noted fentanyl has been seized in every state and it issued an urgent warning in September about fake prescription pills laced with the drug....A scant 2 milligrams can be deadly, and they're often cut in with counterfeit Oxycontin, Percocet or other drugs....How does fentanyl get to the US? Chemicals used to make the drug are often shipped from China to...Mexico for production by drug cartels in Mexico and then smuggled to the US....The drug can come in small mailed shipments of less than a kilogram...
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN 5:58 AM ET, Thu November 18, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-what-matters/index.html
Direct Headline: Democrats astonishingly cheer fentanyl smuggling
Misguided Democrats like Eric Swalwell are actually arguing that more fentanyl crossing the border is a good thing. As anyone who pays even the smallest attention to the border knows, fentanyl seizures are used as a proxy for illicit drug trafficking. In other words, more seizures means more fentanyl is being smuggled across the border into the U.S., not less. This shows how little Democrats know about the border, and how little the American people can trust them to address the crisis Biden created.
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: “If they're seizing a lot, it's because a lot is coming in.” Retired Drug Enforcement Administration official Kyle Williamson, who has more than 30 years of experience on drug smuggling at the border: “It’s the worst it's ever been. There's no good news here. And the amount of methamphetamine and fentanyl coming in right now is unprecedented.”
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/n...tanyl-border-drug-problems-worsen/5830994001/
NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez: “Fentanyl being pushed through the desert around El Paso is up more than 355% compared to last year and 4000% than 2018.”
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1410036943749058569
CBS News’ Janet Shamlian: “Drugs coming across the border here are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the country, the toll of which can be counted in the skyrocketing number of overdose deaths…as agents say, the cartels use a flood of migrants to move a river of drugs.”
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1402775728081547266
Sheriffs in states like Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts are seeing a surge in fentanyl pills linked to border smuggling. Mexican officials have warned about a “boom time for gangs” as smuggling spikes at the border because of Biden’s policies. Even Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently conceded that “record” drug seizures show that the smuggling problem is now “even larger.”
And the problem is only getting worse. At least 899 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the border in October alone, equivalent to almost 204 million lethal doses. As thousands of illegal immigrants were camped in Del Rio because of Biden’s open borders agenda, up to 224 miles of the border were left unpatrolled, grounding to a halt the ability of Border Patrol to stop illegal drugs from entering the country.
Tommy Pigott Nov 18, 2021
https://gop.com/rapid-response/democrats-astonishingly-cheer-fentanyl-smuggling/
Direct Headline: Exclusive: 'Migrant president' Biden stirs Mexican angst over boom time for gangs
One Mexican official familiar with migration developments, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said organized crime began changing its modus operandi “from the day Biden took office” and now exhibited “unprecedented” levels of sophistication...That includes briefing clients on the latest immigration rules, using technology to outfox authorities, and disguising smuggling operations as travel agencies, assessments showed...“Migrants have become a commodity,” the official said, arguing they were now as valuable as drugs for the gangs. “But if a packet of drugs is lost in the sea, it’s gone. If migrants are lost, it’s human beings we’re talking about.”...Communicating via social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube, smugglers update migrants on impending checkpoints, when freight trains they can jump on pass, where to stay and how to navigate immigration laws...To ease their passage, smugglers advise Central American clients to register complaints with authorities saying they have been victims of extortion or, for young men, that they have faced death threats from street gangs, the assessments show....And, as in previous years, migrants are being told to bring along children to make it easier to apply for asylum....
By Dave Graham March 10, 20214:11 AM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-exclusive-idUSKBN2B21D8
VIDEO: Fentanyl (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller Apr 9, 2022 National Geographic
Fentanyl has turbocharged the deadliest drug crisis in American history. But less understood is how the drug has utterly transformed the black market. Mariana goes in search of the new bosses, new routes, new risks and the American communities paying the price for fentanyl’s next wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1nnnCPAKA
*******
Joe Biden (or his primary handlers) believes he will run for reelection in 2024 and win to remain President Of The United States.
His son, Hunter Biden, has had a long public history of drug addiction and drug abuse which has culminated into the infamous "laptop" that raises questions about Pay For Play influence from foreign entities into the Obama Administration when Biden was VPOTUS aka "The Big Guy"
While most of America and most political pundits will agree that the odds of Biden winning 2024 POTUS is slim to none, the best media optics move to limit the negative exposure of Hunter Biden and possible foreign influence payoffs is to block out any discussion of Hunter Biden's drug addictions from the activist complicit left leaning MSM. So that means it's probably a good media strategy to pretend like the huge current fentynal crisis in America doesn't exist. It casts too much negative light on Biden's insane Border policies and it just keeps bringing up the toxic indefensible Hunter Biden narrative to the forefront again and again and again in the national daily media cycle.
Keep in mind that Biden was in neck deep, along with Eric Holder, during the Operation Fast & Furious scandal during the Obama Administration, where your tax payer dollars was spent to give guns to the Sinaloa Cartel. And a recent scandal erupted when National Guardsman, Bishop Evans, died trying to save two drowning men learned later to be drug smugglers/drug mules, it also hashes up again that those OF&F weapons were used to kill Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry in 2010. The sitting POTUS who wrote the 94 Crime Bill that punished young black men in America has to media spin control out of a young African American Guardsman die over the lethal drugs that Biden's self inflicted Border Crisis is allowing to enter the country en masse to kill Americans and devastate the entire Republic. Plus since the drugs and precursors are coming from China, there's the ugly pathway where Biden bending the knee to the CCP over and over again doesn't help our national security and foreign policy. Don't want all those damaging narrative dredging up as well. Better to just pretend it didn't happen at all.....
My take? It's only been a year and a half into this administration's term. How much more death and destruction and chaos can be inflicted on the United States in the next two and a half years?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss now.
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