100 Americans die of drug overdoses each day. How do we stop that?
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The Biden Administration's Drug Surrender
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-drug-surrender-opinion-
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Perhaps a Rodrigo Duterte Philippines type guy could do it, you would not have to go full religion zealot or Communist North Korea...just a little pride to start doing some work and maybe clean the trash from the streets.
Its hard to fix a culture that chases highs and hedonism, that legally goes out and gets addicted to shit pushed by doctors and pharmacists...then you have the other illegal shit they smoke from the sewer and inject filth from the gutter, the Babylon Is Falling Degeneracy Culture, the Spooks from the CI Gays trafficking people and pushing toxic product into the streets of the USA even links to that islamist shithole in islamist jihadi Asscrackistan...then on tv 24/7 you got crap like 'Scarface' 'Breaking Bad' 'Limitless ' 'Once upon a Time in Mexico' 'Pulp Fiction' 'Casino' 'Wolf of Wall Street' 'Blow' 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' the pop music, the shithead rappers and shit head rockers lifestyle pushed into people's brains 24/7
Although I admit I found Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas kinda crazy funny
The number has now TRIPPLED under Biden
270 maybe 320+ per day from what I'm reading
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"Its hard to fix a culture that chases highs and hedonism ..."
If you look at the most lucrative global drug markets they are the US, Europe, and Canada. Drug addiction is global, not a single-nation's problem.
But if you look at use, poor countries around the globe aren't exempt. In Afghanistan the drug of choice is opium/ heroin.
But synthetics are now considered the way to go producers, which means users. Fields of poppy or coca or marijuana are too relatively expensive when a small lab can produce far more drugs, far faster. (Agriculture has always been a tough economic venture.) Amphetamine-like substances and fentanyl lead the pack. (BTW, it's heroin laced with fentanyl which is responsible for the increase in drug deaths globally. Cheap, highly-cut heroin can be made potent with fentanyl. Opioid look-alikes (oxycontin clones, for example) can be made with fentanyl. The problem is the equivalent of 2 grains of salt of fentanyl is lethal. In addition, newer and different other drugs like xylazine are being added to heroin and pill clones. Those drugs don't respond to Narcan at all.
The end results is that cheap synthetics have taken over many drug markets, including poor countries in southeast Asia. Methamphetamine and MDMA are the drugs of choice in that area.
Previous opioid-prescribing practices in the US certainly created a market for opioids. Oxycontin was described by drug manufacturers as being non-addictive, and US doctors were advised they could freely dose as much as they wanted for pain control. So it wasn't a 'culture that chases highs and hedonism' that gave heroin use a boost in the US, it was a decades-long medical practice of large-scale opioid prescription-writing.
FWIW, I don't blame anybody's 'culture' for the current GLOBAL drug epidemic, and certainly not the Indonesian 'culture', the Afghan 'culture', the Thai 'culture', or the Swiss 'culture'.
I blame the drugs, (and past-opioid-prescribing practices in the US that created a huge market) which are now so powerful even a single experimental use can create an addict, or a dead body.
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When it comes to the OT "100 Americans die of drug overdoses each day. How do we stop that?" fentanyl is the single biggest contributor to accidental drug overdoses and deaths. It's so powerful it takes only the equivalent of 2 grains of salt to kill a person. That means your average drug chain has to be extremely careful spiking their ultra-cut ultra-cheap heroin. And the drug suppliers aren't all noted for being the sharpest tools in the shed.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
FWIW, I don't blame anybody's 'culture' for the current GLOBAL drug epidemic, and certainly not the Indonesian 'culture', the Afghan 'culture', the Thia 'culture', or the Swiss 'culture'.
I do I blame the culture, any place I stayed for a time was because the streets gave me good vibes and I got on with the community and never feared the locals.
I don't support Vigilantes but you see I have always tried to live in a region that is controlled, lived in a place when even when there is crime the local mafia controlls stuff ...what could I mean by this... maybe its a culture and even the gangs respect the local history and culture....and the mafia if there is one its is helpful in its own way gets business done and works alongside the police. A local gang in Argentina for example won't let their nice area collapse, some bikers in Norway they won't allow some poison product to target the kids on their streets, people from Poland come along a mass mob of guys dressed like Hooligans and they beat the crap out of some guy bringing in toxic product from Afghanistan, big dudes from Mongolia come along in their town and smash up a place when a bunch of outsiders go too far and don't know the rules, the truckers and fisher men in some island in the central South Pacific stop an alien culture and alien gang bringing in any poison, in a remote area in Alaska you might find a cop and gang work together to keep unwanted stuff out of the town and anyone coming in sticks out like a 'hit me target' in Japan if a drug dealer comes in and starts pushing shit too far the local Yakuza come along with baseball bats, start smashing heads maybe even chop of someone's pinky as a warning, a future war warning and a sign of future servitude, they have a missing pink that reminds them everyday to pay off the future debts they now owe to the Japanese community
A culture doesn't need to be homogenous either Melting-Pots can work, like Switzerland, it works in Singapore but then again you have the US a culture where it once fought for its freedoms against other powers and deafetd foriegn Empire only to now kill itself, America once a winner but now a culture where people can get shot fucking dead over a pair of sneakers
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Europe, and Canada.
A lot of regions in these places are also becoming SHITHOLE COUNTRIES
Russia stands out as a partriot police state 'Putin' place but also miserable to live for some with a lot of the population hooked on alcohol addiction, high levels of violence and incarceration
'Weed' while classed as a drug might help these fools clam down funnily enough help these idiots chill out a bit
Belarus, Serbia, Albania, Ukraine, Bulgaria?have high levels of violence but they also might not be long out of communism or civil wars.
Dutch Netherlands while Holland Liberalized drugs it did ok for a while like Commiefornia but has no become a shithole riddiled with gangs...broken window theory? It doesn't really link to a religion thing, soem Christian nations are good others are bad, the Murder and Rape and crime and Drugs and Shooting in parts of Latin America like Honduras?, Venezuela, British Virgin Islands, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil some have regions with crime and killing are so off the scale with murder rates worse than terrorist areas of Syria or Iraq.
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I blame the drugs
I don't because in a ways the drugs are also a larger symptom of cultural collapse
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
When it comes to the OT "100 Americans die of drug overdoses each day.
The number has now risen, whatever drug shit has been going on since 911...multiply by 3... it is now 280+ PER DAY !!
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Melting pots don't work. They will never work.
On an individual level, there will always be people who are capable or even enjoy being around others that aren't like them, but most people will never be like that.
It's in our genes. There's nothing that can be done to change it. Certainly not forcing it.
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Switzerland has an extreme heroin problem. (Not that you'd hear about it because the world revolves around the US - right?) So, what's wrong with their culture? Canada has an extreme opioid/heroin problem too. What's wrong with their culture? Afghanistan has an extreme opium/ heroin problem. What's wrong with their culture? Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand have an extreme methamphetamine/ MDMA drug problem. What's wrong with their cultures?
In fact, POOR countries have the most illegal drug use.
Almost two thirds of the world’s amphetamine and methamphetamine users live in Asia, most of them in East and Southeast Asia.
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/asias-ats-epidemic-the-challenges-f
or-china/
And the high rate of drug DEATHS spans many countries.
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/drug-use/by-country/
Maybe some people, in some places 'preserve' a small local area from drugs - or at least badly-made drugs that they aren't profiting from. But the overall numbers tell the story. This isn't a US 'culture' problem. It's a global problem that spans many countries, many governments, and many economies.
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I think I can explain t he Swiss one, they are SUPER RICH and while they are rich their ego tells them they are super wise, a lot of the Swiss who worked around banks and numbers were constantly on stims a “bazaar of the bizarre” in a rich Zurich, some eating these stimulants all day, working in stocks, they eventually burn out and almost totally burn out and quit so they pay for a big expensive rehab detox getaway like the Hollweirdo celebs did in Commiefornia, Swiss are different as a people perhaps they are culturally mixed but can be kinda boring but I remember something during the old news reports travels of Europe of the 80s, while holland liberalized the Swiss in their infinite wisdom started handing out free needles, then every other junkie in europe who wasnt in Holland started arriving in Switzerland now you have this whole failed business of War on Drugs like the War on Terror and the big Business Opioid Shootup Rehabilitation Clinic...where tax payers pay for more less lethal drugs to enter their system. They coulda just chained a few up put them in some cold prison soup kitchen and give them a hammer and had them break blocks on a cold Swiss mountain side, I think that might have worked even better to focus their minds.
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methamphetamine users live in Asia, most of them in East and Southeast Asia.
They can be terrible addicted gambler types, always around Stocks and Banks and Beting and Bonds, mah jongg, pachinko, Yutnori cheok-sa sa-hee korea thai Baccarat gamble video games, or whatever their local games were called... They have their own 'Squid Games' and every addict thinks he or she is gonna win big at Vegas...if you never lived around them maybe watch or read 'Dune' and know a 'Mentat' is a type of human that is almost machine like and obsessed with quickly counting off numbers and stats....but like I said controlled by the local Mafia types of what underground criminal sub culture is tolerated or allowed. Anyways if you count the numbers there are Billions in Asia, as bad as stims can be like nothing as letal as the US drug market, these are what the US citizen is putting into its body today is far worse far more toxic posion and the culture openly tolerated
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Maybe some people, in some places 'preserve' a small local area from drugs - or at least badly-made drugs that they aren't profiting from.
Maybe so
I have given up on the cities these days, do my best to avoid all cities of the world unless its an absolute must and I have to vist them.
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Quote:Oddly enough Russia's incarceration rate is half that of the US - the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet; and Russia has roughly 1/10 the violent crime of the US.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Russia ... high levels of violence and incarceration
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates
-by-country
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Russia/United-States
/Crime
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Oddly enough Russia's incarceration rate is half that of the US - the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet; and Russia has roughly 1/10 the violent crime of the US.
I honestly thought Russians numbers would be somewhat higher, at least closer to American rates. It's interesting they have an age ranked for Age of criminal responsibility, 'Opiates Usage' rate is insane I knew it was high but dint think it was on that level.
I'm not sure I trust Russia/Putin's official numbers, it is afterall Russian so perhaps they might be using some creative figures
I might have to give up on the United States of America, it seems the problems might be too many to be ever solved.
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Quote:Those aren't the poor that are the backbone of the east and southeast Asian drug problem.
terrible addicted gambler types, always around Stocks and Banks and Beting and Bonds
You have too many explanations for drug problems. The rich are spoiled and self-indulgent, the poor are escaping their misery, the drug-producing countries just have drugs as part of the environment so of course people become addicted for no reason except it's there.
Every time there are so many CONTRADICTORY explanations, it means they're faulty.
The one consistent factor is how powerful the drugs are.
People used to smoke 'heritage' marijuana which had 1/40 the active compound as today. People used to chew coca leaves to deal with hunger and fatigue. People used to chew chat socially for a mild (coffee-like) high. People used to eat poppy seed as a food, because, like all seeds, poppy seed is high in oil and calories. These people weren't addicts because the concentration of the active substances in natural sources was low.
The high from drugs (and alcohol) is due to the RATE OF RISE. The faster the drugs go up in the bloodstream, the higher you feel.
There are 3 ways to increase the rate of rise:
Create more powerful drugs.
Concentrate existing drugs.
Smoke or inject the drugs. (Smoking brings a large quantity of drugs in direct bloodstream contact in your lungs, the equivalent of injecting.)
People who are looking to get high can choose one or more of those ways to get even more high.
And the drugs today are EXCEPTIONALLY concentrated and powerful. They make people REALLY high. That gives them HUGE addiction potential. And that addiction potential is built-in by the drug suppliers who go out of their way to concentrate old drugs and create new more powerful ones, like fentanyl ... to CREATE addicts and a good market for their product.
I blame the drugs.
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