72,000 dead in 2017 alone.

USA is in a type of war that it is not used to. No shots fired, no RPG or IEDs. Non of that. It’s a war of opioid crisis.
In 2017 alone USA recorded 72,000 fatalities from heroin and fentanyl and carfentanil abuse.
Basic facts
For pain relief, a unit of carfentanil is 100 times as potent as the same amount of fentanyl, 5,000 times as potent as a unit of heroin and 10,000 times as potent as a unit of morphine. Morphine is used to ease labour pains when women are about to give birth.
Fentanyl and carfentanil are synthetic, meaning you make them in a lab by mixing chemicals.
Geography
Here’s where China comes in. China is where the makers of the ingredients to make these powerful drugs are based at.
Facts
1)China doesn’t have a drug problem because traffickers get executed within a few days of getting caught, and rightfully so.
2) Chinas govt knows what businesses in China are doing. It spies on businesses and is citizen to make sure there can never be surprises locally.
Conclusion
This makes me conclude that the makers of the ingredients of fentanyl and carfentanil do so under the express or implied authority of the Chinese government.
Moral of this
You can destroy a nation without ever firing a single shot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/upshot/opioids-overdose-deaths-rising-fentanyl.html
72,000 is a lot of human beings.

Oky,tell us about Africa for once… Do you think these Whites and Niggas think about Africa the way you do.?? NGUI hamia huko.

I think it’s good to open up your mind to know what’s going on in the world. If you spend too much time dwelling on non issues you become you :oops:

Are you implying that China is intentionally making and sending these drugs to America to kill people? I think drug abuse is an issue of poor coping skills.
Most drug abusers of narcotics have chronic pain issues like back pain from injuries at work or car accidents. The American govt has recently come down hard on physician prescribers to find other ways of treating pain apart from narcotics. People can’t get their oxycodone or hydrocodone pills anymore, that’s why the black market for powerful opioids like fentanyl has thrived.

Then there’s the issue of pure stupidity and peer pressure. Recently I’d taken an Uber to the airport with a driver who previously worked in a methadone clinic (for opioid recovery). We were driving through a really bad part of West Philadelphia. She challenged me to look keenly coz everyone there was high. Walking zombies literally. Apparently, it’s become a cool thing to die from narcotic overdose. Some kids will hear their friends say, “damn that sh*t was the ish men! He took one and was out cold, dead. I wanna try it!” These street drugs are laced with all kinds of very powerful drugs designed to kill. This has nothing to do with getting high. Stupid kids want to experience death by narcotics. Sometimes I fear for America’s future, especially whites, some of their youth are lost completely.

When you elect a President like Drumpf, you do everything you can to forget that you just screwed yourself where the sun don’ shine.

But nationwide, the crisis worsened in the first year of the Trump presidency…”.

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I think that the Chinese govt is not going to do anything in it’s efforts to crackdown on the makers of the chemicals that make the ingredients. Why help a rival when he’s destroying himself.
USA is a military strong nation no doubt, but to be so wrecked by drug abuse is stunning. But too much democracy makes everybody think they know what’s good for them even when they don’t. Huku kwetu lower Kabete we’re dealing with zombies wa kumikumi. To hear them speak they claim they are doing just fine

I saw a documentary and my heart got bothered. In some town called Ohio the mortuary got full they had to bring a lorry that has a fridge to keep the excess bodies. Jeso Kristo

These people have everything they could ask for in life. Opportunities on a silver platter. Some employers will pay for drug rehab and give financial incentives to stay clean. It’s years of bad/lack of parenting, narcissism, hedonism and nihilism…the end result is death.

share the name of the documentary, i love these stuff

The opioid crisis in the United States has become so widespread and deep reaching that virtually every community in the nation has felt its effects. Enough opioids are prescribed in the U.S. each year to keep every man, woman, and child in the country medicated around the clock for one month.”

The far-reaching effects of the US opioid crisis | Brookings

Actually I should’ve said

I should have said I saw “in one” documentary because I was watching many of them on YouTube. Just search “opioid crisis” on YouTube and it will line them up documentary after documentary.

First of all NO employer will give you financial incentives to stay off drugs. That doesn’t even make sense. Second, nihilism doesn’t belong there.

That being said, I think lack of parenting and easy access to drugs, plus unscrupulous doctors are definitely partly if not largely responsible for the crisis. I went for a root canal the other day and the dentist gave me a prescription for way more pain killers than I needed (they usually give you six days worth). Reason? Ati I had to wait for 30 minutes in the waiting room. They were so many that the pharmacist refused to fill the prescrition! One pill goes for like $150.00 in the street. If I wanted, I could have gone to a not-so-vigilant pharmacy to get it filled. Come to think of it…hm…:cool:

[SIZE=6]This company needs workers so badly it’s putting them through drug rehab[/SIZE]

By Lydia DePillis May 22, 2018: 11:16 AM ET

This past winter, John Stroup had a problem.

Roughly one out of 10 applicants for jobs at his factory in Richmond, Indiana, had failed their drug tests, disqualifying them for employment at the safety-conscious company. A handful of the 450 people already working there had failed random drug tests as well. With opioids ravaging the region, the CEO of Belden Inc. was short-staffed while orders for the company’s computer networking equipment were pouring in.

“Now that we’re seeing a bit of a manufacturing renaissance, unfortunately we don’t have the qualified labor that we need, and we have this terrible epidemic,” says Stroup.

For Stroup, the decision was a simple cost-benefit analysis: How much would it cost to help people get sober in this Rust Belt town of 37,000, compared to what he was losing by not having them available to work?

After a few meetings with board members and addiction experts, he came up with a plan. If an applicant or a current employee failed a drug test, but they still wanted the job, Belden would pay for an evaluation at a local substance abuse treatment center.

People deemed to have a low risk of developing an addiction could spend two months in a non-dangerous job before they are allowed to operate heavy equipment again, as long as they passed periodic random drug tests for the rest of their time at the company.

People at high risk would spend two months in an intensive outpatient monitoring and treatment program, with the promise of a job at the end if they made sufficient progress. On average, Belden figured it would have to shell out about $5,000 for each person it gave a second chance to.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/news/economy/employers-opioid-rehab-belden/index.html

Please highlight the financial incentive. If I read it correctly, they still have to earn what they are paid. It’s actually more advantageous for the company due to tax incentives and the fact that they can employ graduates to clean toilets (potentially).

Having a history of drug abuse in your record used to be a red flag, most companies wouldn’t hire you. We have come a long way that employers are not only hiring drug addicts, but also paying $5000 for drug rehab. I wish black people got the same level of national sympathy during the cocaine epidemic.

ask yourself these 3 questions:

  1. What are opioids and what are their applications?
  2. are the abused opioids banned substances?
  3. are those ingredients you are talking about banned substances and what are their other applications?

because if we go by your logic glue and cough syrup should be banned because people abuse them to get high

Where are you getting the financial incentives to drug addicts from? You can’t subtly change your story on me like that!:wink:

by giving you your job back

The street value of OxyContin is about $10-$80 depending on the dose, so don’t be quitting your day job! :smiley:
I was given 30 tablets of Percocet after wisdom teeth extraction, I got sick as a dog and felt tired and lethargic. How do people get addicted? That stuff is nasty. Aleve, Motrin or Tylenol was more effective for my pain.

Do you know what financial incentives in the workplace are?