100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US in one year, a record:
During a one-year period from April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from a drug overdose in the US, according to provisional data from the National Vital Statistics System, a government network for sharing public-health data. The number is a record for the US and means about 274 people died each day.
In December 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sounded the alarm on an increase in overdose deaths -- more than 93,000 in 2020. Factors compounding the existing overdose epidemic may include the financial and emotional burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, along with COVID-era problems in getting health care and mental health services.
Fatal overdoses continue to be driven by opioids, particularly the extremely potent fentanyl. Overdose deaths involving fentanyl or other synthetic opioids increased 12-fold from 2013 to 2019, the CDC reported.
Fentanyl, which is legal if it's prescribed to treat severe pain, is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, the CDC says. Nonprescription fentanyl is illegal, which means it doesn't undergo any testing or safety regulations. Heroin, cocaine and other drugs are often laced with fentanyl, so people who overdose on fentanyl may not even know they consumed it or may have underestimated how much fentanyl was in the other drug.
The US Drug Enforcement Agency says that without laboratory testing, there's no way to know the amount of fentanyl in a pill or drug. Test strips people can use to check whether a drug contains fentanyl can be found at some public health clinics, including syringe services programs. But they don't reveal the amount of fentanyl in the drug; they only show its presence.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Spamalope on Saturday November 20 2021, @12:47PM (52 children)
Why isn't the US using it's diplomatic pressure towards stopping the Fentanyl trade? The specific Chinese nationals producing and exporting Fentanyl are known, drug cartels are lacing other drugs with it because it's being provided to them cheaply and they don't care about the danger to the users (obviously). The 'ruling class' in the US seem to care even less, law enforcement cares to the extent that it creates an asset forfeiture opportunities.
What a screwed up clusterfuck.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Cyrix6x86 on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:25PM (33 children)
At this point, it's economic warfare waged by China. Like France in WW1, an entire generation of Americans has been wiped from the workforce. The next generation isn't looking better.
For millennials, we should be entering our peak production years. Instead, the newspaper obituaries are filled with people in their 20's through 40's dying unexpectedly. The rest are already walking dead, with their sunken in faces and missing teeth. Unproductive to society. Evangelical churches do nothing, and I'm not sure in a perfect world where they were even trying, their overly narcissistic-emotional message would be of any use anyway. Narcan just delays the inevitable.
Those of us who overachieved and ended up with stable, six figure careers and the financial ability to start a family are burdened with figuring out how to afford housing and food, trying not to go bankrupt by getting injured or diagnosed with anything, and that's the optimistic path for those of us who Ramseyed our way into paying off student loans early.
The politicians do nothing to help. They are geriatric at this point, and senile. We know the infrastructure bill will result in nothing tangible, with increased debt. There is a COIN SHORTAGE everywhere, and prices are skyrocketing.
The out of touch media in New York and Washington are surprised when we suddenly elect Progressive Socialists on the left and National Socialists on the right into positions of authority, and when juries of peers let people walk for practicing self defense on the streets during media-organized riots.
Instead of focusing on the real day-to-day issues, they set up false narratives, like "masks vs no masks" or "vaccines vs no vaccines" or "abortion vs no abortion" and pretend like we focus our attention there. Only the boomers are actually debating that kind of useless shit. Nobody under the age of 50 cares. We are struggling to survive.
100,000 people overdosed this year. I'll bet this is the last year it's under six figures. It's not going to get any better.
Buy land somewhere and dig in. It's about to get bumpy in the United States.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:45PM
Yes, it is, but we should be aware that they're doing it because they have to. The Communist Party sold Chinese on the prospect that they were the only ones who could make China strong again, who could re-unify the motherland, and who would remove foreign influence upon her. They have made progress on those goals, but increasingly they're doing it by shady accounting and hollowing out the country's substance. It's like the Great Leap Forward, Part II. State industries are being shut down and tens of thousands of workers are thrown out onto the street. Entire empty cities are being built, flimsily, just to keep people busy (you can watch clips on YouTube of highrises in China disintegrating in the wind.)
So the CCP is rattling sabers to keep the restive Chinese people busy with the illusion of progress, while the real indicators dip further and further into the red.
None of which is to say that the rest of us in the world shouldn't get our houses in order. We must. The West, for one, is overdue for a thorough house cleaning.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:53PM (16 children)
The people who should have children are busy paying taxes for the people actually having children.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:18PM (5 children)
Not me. I have 3 children. I pay taxes. I do not buy into the narcissism, hedonism, and "career" worship that people of my economic class are being peddled. Raising a family which provides the next generation to continue our society with people who are educated (truly, not just schooled) and who love our country and their ancestors is what every society KNOWS must be done -- instinctively. Societies that do not "know" this in their bones collapse. I am doing my part.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:40PM (3 children)
Thank you for fucking. Makes pappa proud.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:53PM (2 children)
If I wanted to maximize fucking, I would not have had kids.
Married guy humor.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:37PM (1 child)
Thank you for not fucking. You're a great human being. Better?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:29PM
I find your concern over my amount of fucking heartwarming. Can you pop over during midday hours (I work from home, wife doesn't), wearing a blonde wig and red lipstick? (Not the kind that smears all over my dick.)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:52PM
No Whites should be paying the federal income tax. The ZOG is not our legitimate government. Funding it is funding the enemy. It's plain to see that federal tax dollars are mainly used to subvert White America.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:49PM
Yes, ignorant, brainwashed Whites are breeding non-white babies instead of having their own. All part of the Jew-orchestrated White genocide.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:09PM (8 children)
I marked this insightful by mistake, just after I marked it insightful I realized that the author didn't quite mean the same things I thought was meant (I am the first one to mark this insightful AFAIK).
Income is inversely correlated with number of children. The poorer someone is the more likely they are to have children and the more children they tend to have.
Poor people are more likely to be irresponsible with money and irresponsible overall. They would be the kinds of people that squander money, do drugs, and are more likely come from broken/single parenthood families (contrary to Hollywood and big media propaganda, those that feed us with this propaganda avoid single parenthood themselves. The democratic elite encourages single parenthood on others because they feed off of broken families since broken families are more likely to result in desperate families that need to rely on the government and hence vote for democrats. The democrats are like a gang, they want to prey on the weak and they want to keep them weak so they can keep preying on them. Poorly educated people with criminal backgrounds are more likely to vote for democrats so let's keep the single parenthood things going so that democrats can get more votes. To be clear, the republicans have their own set of problem too as others on this message board have pointed out already).
People with children are also more likely to receive government assistance and they get tax write offs (for a decision that they made) at the expense of those that are more responsible and economical (ie: those without children that don't get tax write offs and they pay more taxes to compensate for the write offs that those that don't have children receive). Having children is a choice, why should those without children pay for the choices of those with children.
Plus Biden wants to do even more to give more money per child. This encourages/funds/supports the endeavors of those that we want fewer children from (the irresponsible) to have even more children in a situation where overpopulation is already placing a burden on housing, food, the environment and other natural resources. People who have children should have them for the right reason, not because the government is going to give them money. Those children are more likely to come from dysfunctional families and hence more likely to be dysfunctional themselves (at the expense of those that are more functional). If anything we need to better control our borders and place limits on how many children the government will help support per parent. Then we can get the population size under control and we won't be such a huge burden on the environment.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:13PM
Basically we don't want the government encouraging (funding) those that rely on the government to have more children because that will only produce even more people that rely on the government.
Of course this is what the democrats want. They want more people to rely on the government because then they will have more people that will vote for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:24PM (2 children)
err ....
republicans have their own set of problems *
People who have children should have them for the right reasons *
Also, to add to that, those that don't have children should be encouraged to support family members with children. Instead of these dysfunctional single parenthood situations that democrats support we should be encouraging dual parent families along with aunts, uncles, grandparents, and even cousins to help support children. This creates far better results than you get when government is expected for support.
This country has really gone down hill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @07:56PM (1 child)
And the way to enforce that is.... wait for it.... wait for it.... ending welfare and social security. Force the bastards to take care of eachother, AMIRITE?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @04:10AM
That's not what was said, nuance matters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @03:19AM (3 children)
Parent said:
"Having children is a choice, why should those without children pay for the choices of those with children."
This is the false premise the rest of your thinking follows from.
A society absolutely requires children so it does not collapse. This is not like deciding whether to get a pet dog or cat. If the natives aren't having children, guess what happens to fill the vacuum for workers, consumers, and tax payers to, among other things, fund the retired people on Social Security? These people will be IMPORTED. In America's case, we import brown people who are still breeding and people from backward countries that still have a too-large population who may not have been the result of large families themselves.
If you think a society can prosper with a *sudden* drop in population, you are mistaken.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @01:45PM (2 children)
"A society absolutely requires children so it does not collapse. "
There also needs to be some sort of controls to the number of children that are produced. We don't want another baby boom, we don't want an expanding population. Our current population does need to substantially shrink.
"If the natives aren't having children, guess what happens to fill the vacuum for workers, consumers, and tax payers to, among other things, fund the retired people on Social Security? These people will be IMPORTED. In America's case, we import brown people who are still breeding and people from backward countries that still have a too-large population who may not have been the result of large families themselves."
The people that we allow here illegally aren't interested in serving the interests of those that are retired. They are interested in serving their own interests and acquiring/competing for the natural resources that those that are already here have. They compete for housing, they compete for food, land, etc... which makes everything more expensive and it makes it more difficult for the natives to retire from the money they already earned.
Land is a limited resource that you need to build housing on. You have limited material resources that you can use to build said housing. If you have more people per unit land you necessarily have more people per house creating congestion or more homelessness.
"have a too-large population who may not have been the result of large families themselves."
It seems like you failed at arithmetic. If their population is large it's because they were having large families. They're likely/statistically going to pass that same broken culture down to their children.
"If you think a society can prosper with a *sudden* drop in population, you are mistaken."
Depends on your definition of prosperity. Fewer people = more natural resources available (like housing) per person = less homelessness and less congestion. That's a reasonable definition of prosperity.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @02:01PM
"from backward countries"
Also, if they come from backwards countries they, themselves, are likely to vote for backwards politicians. They are going to vote for the politicians that are going to find ways to take what you have and allow them to acquire it for themselves (which is what you actually see in California for instance when they started eroding prop 13 and also when they started passing racist and discriminatory laws that require a certain number/percentage of people of a select race and gender on the board of directors of publicly traded companies).
"Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Alaska Native, or who self‑identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.”"
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/10/new-law-requires-diversity-on-boards-of-california-based-companies/ [harvard.edu]
So the laws are now giving privilege to certain groups of people over others. Of course I expect this from democrats, they have always been the racist party and they continue to be the racist party. We let people from backwards, racist, countries in and they vote for racist policies.
It is conservatism that has been egalitarian. Other countries are FAR less accepting/tolerant of people of other races than Americans yet somehow we allowed all these people from backwards countries in, often illegally, and now they are imposing the same backwards socialist/democrat racist intolerance against others and privilege on themselves as they do in their home countries.
If they come from overpopulated backwards countries and our country isn't overpopulated and backwards maybe we're doing something right and perhaps we need to continue to ensure we don't become one of those overpopulated countries. Their countries are backwards compared to us in part because they are overpopulated, is that what we want? No, we don't want to be overpopulated because being overpopulated is backwards and it will result in our lives sucking as much as theirs. Perhaps not being overpopulated is a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @04:52PM
If we have our own backyards we can even grow our own food and there would be less people to feed so doing so wouldn't be as difficult. My grandma used to grow food in her backyard just a generation ago here in the U.S. when I was little and my grandparents grew their own food back in their home countries.
That's prosperity. Clean food, water, shelter, and a lack of congestion. We need less people for that.
Of course my grandparents are part of the problem, I have so many aunts and uncles but my aunts and uncles have few children, my siblings/cousins have few children as we don't have their same mentality of encouraging large families. My grandparents were uneducated but most of their children and grandchildren are relatively educated so we see things differently and we didn't let them impose their large family mentality on us.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:06PM (7 children)
On the contrary. Go and visit your local university, and you'll see young people religiously wearing their masks. I wonder if something happened in the last 20 years that nobody has gotten colds and flus anymore, so they have no idea that catching something is a normal part of human existence. I'll grant that young people don't watch MSNBC or Fox, but they must be getting their fear porn from some other place.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by legont on Sunday November 21 2021, @05:49AM (3 children)
Kids at universities simply scared shitless of authorities because they know that one mistake and plantations is the only life for them. I feel so sorry for them. For their stolen youth and freedom.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @06:07PM
feel sorry for them? maybe that their parents didn't raise them to have a fucking spine.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Sunday November 21 2021, @09:39PM (1 child)
I'm a bit cloudy on this, but where in the constitution does it say wearing a mask infringes on freedom?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @12:33AM
2nd Amendment. It guarantees gun owners the right to do what the FUCK they like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @05:07PM (2 children)
And we in Germany do too because it's not something we even talk about except for the covididiots that pretend to go on with their bullshit "masks vs. no masks" debate. The virus doesn't give rats ass and neither does most of society to have this idiotic debate.
We already have a problem here because there are enough covididiots to clog up the hospitals, again. Unlike more sane nations like Spain or even the UK, there are more covididiots that think COVID will not get them. The proportion of such increases until you hit Bulgaria or Ukraine or Russia. I would be much happier if politicians grew some balls and mandated hospital triage instead of letting non-covid die because some covididiots is clogging ICU beds. If you don't believe covid is real or your magic immune system will protect you and you can't be arsed to get vaccinated, you getting hospital bed should determined IFF there are still free hospital beds not needed for other causes, like heart attacks, stokes, cancer operations, etc. etc.
1. non-covid patients first, per regular triage
2. VACCINATED covid patients 2nd
3. NON-VACCINATED covid patients
that should be priority on who gets beds when there is not enough beds. Enough with the lockdowns. Are *you* scared with your fear porn? I'm not. Get on with it.
and since COVID is not a flu or a cold .... WTF are you yammering about? No one was wearing masks before COVID anyway so stop deluding yourself
Maybe their helicopter parents? But that has fuck all to do with COVID now, does it?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @06:10PM
you're a stupid fucking slave. it is vaxxed zombies spreading and contracting, never mind having health problems and dying from the clot shots directly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @02:04PM
if you're vaccinated you have nothing to fear, not even the un-vaccinated.
also, we need more hospitals, not more batman cave research facilities.
side note: before haber-bosch(?) fertilizer was shoveled from islands covered in 10meter thick layers of bird pooh and from batcaves onto ships and sold, also again using shovels.
furthermore you might have heard about "chinese medicine". bats and snake bile and whatnot has been used and handled for thousands of years and ...ofc they had no modern, authistic, super gen splicing labs with no remorse but remorse of not making enough dollllllars-ya-all.
just saying: shovel bird and bat poo for hundred of years and drink bat-claw tea for thousands of years, no problem. discover genetic engineering for less then 50 years and all hell breakes lose.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:18PM (6 children)
Some of your points are absolutely valid. Why does anyone vote geriatric patients into national office? Biden is a fossil. Trump is a fossil. Bernie is a fossil. Much of Congress is composed of fossils. Also, the government certainly could do better. The "war on drugs" has been run about a stupidly as is possible to imagine, not least because it is being run by the geriatric ward.
However, I have less sympathy for other points. You imply that an entire generation has been wiped out by drug use. That's certainly an exaggeration: approximately 12% of Americans use drugs, and that includes marijuana; considerably fewer take hard drugs (including opioids). For those who do: taking drugs is a choice, and something you can just not do. You won't die of an overdose if you don't take hard drugs, it really is that simple. Don't relieve drug users of responsibility for their own choices.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by istartedi on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:16PM (5 children)
Why does anyone vote geriatric patients into national office?
It looks like we're where the USSR was in the 80s. They had Andropov between Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Talk about aptonyms: "And, drop off".
The USA is waiting on a Gorbachev, not because of voters but because of the party apparatus that coronates nominees. It's not a straight line. It looked like the torch passed with Obama, but then it passed back for a while. The leadership in the Democratic Party fears the "squad" that will take them too far left and front candidates who can't win the general. The GOP is already in disarray due to Trump and it's unclear to me what young Republicans look like today but I'm not exactly encouraged.
Hopefully when the torch is passed, it's not a choice for POTUS between somebody educated in Marxism at a Paris salon vs. a frustrated artist who was a corporal in Afghanistan.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:40PM (4 children)
Yeah much rather have some celebrity offspring of a billionaire that knows the simple solution to our problems. Tried that, didn't work.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Saturday November 20 2021, @07:00PM (3 children)
Look at this years 100,000 as a further monument to the billionaire Sackler family. Oligarchic Capitalism at its finest.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @01:03PM (2 children)
America will have a drug problem as long as billionaires are allowed into space.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @08:10PM (1 child)
America will have a drug problem as long as they are illegal. Let's get real - punishing people who self-medicate hasn't worked. It's a relic from protestant punishment ethic. I get it, it's satisfying to beat down on weak people, but the price is feces on the street and homeless encampments. It ain't fixing anything. And we will keep on doing it until we finally get bored of stepping in human waste, literally and figuratively. Because it's not actually that fun.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Sunday November 21 2021, @10:30PM
Yes, let's get the Sacklers to fire up the factories again and dispense with the need for prescriptions. That will surely fix the opioid crisis!
FWIW, I believe the problem isn't really the legality/illegality of these substances, but the catalysts in society that are causing people to turn to them. Sure, there will always be people who will try drugs for fun no matter what, but I believe American society is very sick, and has been for a long time. The Cult of Me, declining living conditions, political warzone, teenagers shooting up schools and countless other factors are all driving people to find ways to escape. Fix your society and you'll start to see drug use drop off.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:26PM (5 children)
Michael Shellenberger wrote about this recently, Why Everything We Thought About Drugs Was Wrong - The road to hell was paved with victimology [substack.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:47PM (1 child)
That dude is totally full of shit. He's blaming legalized weed for heroin, fentanyl, and meth? What the hell are you smoking?!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:59PM
Where does he do that? He's apportioning blame to what Rob Henderson has termed "luxury beliefs". [quillette.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:52PM (2 children)
It's almost a word salad of buzzwords and pop psychology explaining "Democrats" and "Republicans" because we deep down value Fairness and Sanctity. Ahhh I see, thanks for that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:08PM (1 child)
To the exclusion of other moral foundations. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @08:13PM
Thanks for that too.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:55PM (8 children)
Does the drug trade hurt the ruling elite?
No.
Hence, they're not doing jack shit about it. If it hurt their wealth or endangered their ability to generate more wealth, they'd be all over the problem like locusts on a field, and it would be dealt with swiftly. But it doesn't, so they aren't. It's that simple.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:30PM (5 children)
Does the drug trade hurt the ruling elite?
It's a mixed bag, profits from legal pain relief versus general breakdown in order.
The only way to fix this is to remove the profit motive, both for legal and illegal.
That would require a medical based effort to support addicts to hopefully be functional citizens with a cronic medical problem.
Nancy's 'just say no' drug war sounded good, but it seems to be causing more problems than it is fixing.
I find it interesting that the old folks that are unwilling to do this are also the children of the 60's.
Seems like they have forgotten their youth.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:57PM (3 children)
As Dave Chapelle has pointed out [youtube.com], Just Say No was how society dealt with the crack epidemic that affected blacks, i.e. do nothing and preach morality. Now the opioid epidemic is hitting white people and we are doing our darndest to figure out a solution. Yes it's slow and bungling, but we are not sitting prim and pretty advocating abstinence any more.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:10PM (1 child)
Oh please. We let white America (really, poor, "fly over" America) rot for decades. A key part of Chris Rock's shtick is to bitch about white people. It's a lazy way of avoiding having to think of new material, and it's just about expected by black audiences. Pander and sell tickets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @08:17PM
"We" didn't vote their state legislators into office on the promise of low tax, low service, trickle down, leave it up to the invisible sky-man logic.
They got what they voted for. And it sucked and they took drugs and now they want a civil war. For what? To double down on the stupid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @06:13PM
stfu, race traitor/nigger/wetback/jew.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @11:32AM
Joe Biden’s son Hunter was smoking crack for a while. Pictures of it from his laptop are a quick Google search away. That doesn’t seem to have affected his father or slowed Hunter’s investments in China and Chinese interests like cobalt mines (ecological disasters).
(Score: 2, Insightful) by mhajicek on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:18PM (1 child)
It helps the ruling elite, by giving them excuses to stop, search, harrass, imprison, and sometimes kill people they don't like, such as minorities and the poor. Weed was selected as the first drug to be banned, because it was used predominantly by black people and the lower economic class. Many drug offenses we're made to be felonies (which previously had been reserved for things like murder), and felonies were made to strip 2A rights, so the "undesirables" could be systematically disarmed.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @06:15PM
it's also economic. it's how the rich convince the middle class to pay the noncollectable taxes of the poor.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:55PM (1 child)
because Americans (White Americans) don't have control over their own nation and government. It is controlled by the International Talmudic Jew and Shabbos Goy race traitors hell-bent on destroying the White race and all White nations.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @06:17PM
It's funny how every post about the Jew or in defense of White interests is modded "spam". Typical, lying Bolsheviks.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday November 21 2021, @01:06AM
I know I keep reposting this, but it really gets the point across when you see the contaminant-level amounts [youtu.be] we're talking about. People aren't intentionally taking Fentanyl; they're buying recreational drugs, and when it comes to adulteration with Fentanyl, you can easily visualize how working in something short of a laboratory-grade clean environment where *any* Fentanyl exists can produce a fatal substance.
I'd go so far as to say that anyone producing *any* recreational drug who doesn't have complete control of their supply chain is at a high risk of their product unintentionally or even unknowingly becoming fatal.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @01:22PM (5 children)
The government throws people's lives into the trash, they are going to turn to drugs.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @01:58PM (4 children)
It's so easy to blame government for your own problems.
Especially when the only "news" you watch and read is propaganda.
Fox, Breitbart, and OANN are even more addictive than heroin and fentanyl, and will give you an even more distorted view of reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:21PM (1 child)
Why the sudden uptick in drug deaths then? People all of a sudden became morally empty?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:04PM
If you plot opioid drug deaths against no. of Fox News viewers, it's a perfect straight line.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @07:53PM
I amplify The Guardian articles in every subreddit I can. I can quit any time I want!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @08:21PM
"The" government ranges from Sweden's silky handjobs for criminals to Kentucky's fuck y'alls I gots mine Somali paradise. So please, bitch, tighten it up.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:02PM
Squids on my penis want to know.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by oumuamua on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:56PM (9 children)
If something works elsewhere, why not copy it?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/14/18310778/andrew-yang-opioids-fentanyl-heroin [vox.com]
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:07PM (4 children)
> If something works elsewhere, why not copy it?
Because that's SOCIALISM, son. Socialism and terrorists, and real Americans declare war on things not become pussies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:13PM (3 children)
Portugal also requires the drug addicts go to treatment. Funny how advocates of the Portuguese approach leave that out. Did you even know? Do you think drug addicts in America would like this requirement?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @02:41AM (2 children)
I'm sure they'd like it much better than being put in a cage without any treatment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @03:06AM (1 child)
No, drug addicts prefer to live free in abandoned buildings or in tent encampments and do whatever they need to (besides get a job) to get money to buy drugs. This means robbing people, stealing unwatched property, stealing watched property (in California where criminals are allowed to shoplift so long as the bill is under $950), or sell their bodies for sex.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @08:28PM
A crazy idea. Maybe it's because they've been told to do shit their entire lives, and told they're useless at it, and they better think about their choices young man. Over and over. By an endless stream of authoritarian dictators at every level of "care" from their parents to juvie to the judge. And they are FUCKING DONE with that. Freedom.
Of course, us balanced humans either started on 3rd base, immune to such bullshit, or learned to be vicious prickly bastards. Either way, we had some inherited advantage that let us step out of the affray with support and truth and time to set up our fortress. Take all those away and but by the grace of God there go we.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @06:27PM (1 child)
I'd prefer Singapore or Indonesia be the models here. They don't have a problem with junkies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @02:31PM
they have a different kind of junky ...
(Score: 2) by quietus on Sunday November 21 2021, @12:49PM (1 child)
Does it work, really?
Belgium has liberalized recreational drug use since the end of the 90s. There is free treatment available for hard drug use, you can get free and clean injection needles, and free methadon if you get into the, again, free, program. One presumes, under these conditions, that the number of drug addicts goes down or, at least, that people get their drug use under control, keeping it limited to tripping in a safe, controlled environment. No?
Yet the official figures show that the number of people under influence of drugs, caught during traffic controls (which, crazily, are announced beforehand) has quadrupled between 2010 and 2019 (figures can be found, in Dutch, at vad.be). That trend is growing stronger, too: the number increased in 2018-2019 with 27%.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @12:47AM
If they stopped checking, there would be fewer DUIs. It's only because they're testing that there's any drug use at all. Simple, but they won't tell you that in the lamestream.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @10:11PM (6 children)
The only solution is not to play (take the drugs AT ALL). You KNOW the outcome if you do but you choose to do it anyway. Then it does it's tractor beam kind of thing and swallows you whole and ruins your life and anyone associated with you. Then you try and project your problems onto the rest of society to solve. I know this is a new concept to you BUT NO ONE CARES! Well, the only people who care are those who you've taken advantage of and either stolen things from to sell to feed your habit or the family that has to put up with your bullshit.
I say all this from a family that has this EXACT problem going on for over 20 years with regards to my step brother. After hundreds of thousands of dollars in multiple failed rehabs, job losses, house losses, items stolen, court fees and lawyers to try and sort my step-brother out, you have to draw a line somewhere. MEET THE RED LINE - WARNING: DO NOT CROSS IT - GUESS WHAT? YOU CROSSED IT - NOW FUCK OFF AND DIE...because that's the final outcome when you suck the life out of everything and everyone you've ever graced with your presence.
All because of your choice to use drugs on a whim.
Don't bother replying because you don't fucking know unless you've gone down this route yourself...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @11:54PM
A lot of people became addicted after being prescribed opioids for pain relief
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday November 21 2021, @10:38AM (3 children)
It's kinda hard when the advertising industry keeps telling you to ask your doc about their favorite addictive crap.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Sunday November 21 2021, @10:42PM (2 children)
That's why most civilized countries make it illegal to advertise prescription medication. The idea of generating demand for something that supposedly treats a medical condition is sick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @12:49AM (1 child)
Bb.but I want to play on the swings with a young girl and sculpt flower pots overlooking the ocean! Don't crush my dreams that I can get from taking a pill.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Thursday November 25 2021, @07:00AM
This ain't the Matrix, ya know...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 21 2021, @08:35PM
Drugs treat the symptoms. Hard drugs I mean.
Unless you get to the cause, it's a matter of willpower and sucking it up. And ultimately what's the point of life just hanging on like that... hence "relapse". Ironically (for you) the solution is drugs. Psychedlics, MDMA, THC, probably combined with psychotherapy. Mild cases we can handle ourselves but severe cases need someone to walk you through. This has to be the way forward - where the fuck else?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Opportunist on Sunday November 21 2021, @10:47AM (1 child)
This right there is the problem. Advertisement that trivialize the dangers, especially the addictive potential, of drugs, telling you it's the panacea for whatever ails you and that you should definitely tell your GP to give it to you.
If a drug is not "over the counter", there is usually a reason for this. It's not just a conspiracy to keep GPs busy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @12:51AM
Yes, GPs know best. Now lie back while I put my fist in your ass. It's required.
(Score: 1) by FuzzyTheBear on Monday November 22 2021, @05:04AM
Narcan and Nalaxone. These kits ( at least here in Montreal ) are scattered all over the place. Either two vials of Nalaxone , syringes and accessories in a pouch , or two nose sprays again in a pouch with a few accessories. We got both the kits in our public space downtown and have them handy. Everyone is told about them because in the neighborhood there's poor folks using IV drugs. One overdosed in the building entrance and his life was saved by a nalaxone kit. See , whatever the problems and solutions of addiction to IV drugs is not the matter at hand. First aid is the key to saving lives. It's totally on topic to have these distributed as much as possible amongst the crowd that are using iv drugs. There's rules that slowly sink in because they know that each hit can put them in danger , they dont know what's in the shit they take. Never do a hit alone and always have a kit nearby or know where to get one fast if there's an issue. Yeah , they know , trust me , they know how much danger they're in , yes they know how bad their problems are. They're sick . Most of them have some form of mental illness , traumas left untreated , refused treatment .. simply unable to face the problems they have , overwhelmed by resentment. We do see very very sick individuals .. Not simple addicts , noone chooses to be a junkie as a life goal , but people that have been left out or outcast.It's sad .. the only thing we can do for them , the only one , it to be there to save their lives if need be .. Being aware of first aid procedures , know about the kits and how to use them and if there's cause because of the environment where you spend time ( location of work downtown .. whatever ) either have a kit of your own nearby .. or know where to get one quick should the need arise. These kits here are free , distributed and used to save lives. Even if you think these individuals are sickoes .. that shouldn't prevent YOU from being human and be ready to save a life. Let's show them a bit of humanity , a bit of good .. you never know when it's going to hit them , that somehow God will choose that person and change his life with the human gesture we make to save it's life. Show mercy to a sick person . Yes i speak like a goddang AA , because i am .. used drugs and alcohol. Now 26 years sober . Perhaps we need to suffer to extend a hand. I just hope one , just one , reads this , understands that what we do ,extending a hand , even the gesture of being ready to save a life, just might carry the message home and help a person become once again a light , and be a plus in the lives of others. I know all the problems they can be , i know about society , it's shortcomings , dealers ,suppliers etc .. that dosen't matter a damn when someone is unconscious and needs us to save his life , however miserable you might think it is. Showing compassion is God's gift to these people. We , as humans are his hands.