Lax anti-drug laws? People (especially black people) be getting 15 years for 2 joints of weed's worth.

They Feel Absolutely Validated too because of the Opium Wars! We get the Blame for what the European Empires did, specially the British Empire, and people like me, with very British Last Names, me particularly from a Royal Pedigree from the Chiefs of the Great Clan Ross the Earls of Ross, and we were so often the Gentry to even Generals, their People out there, I'll just throw-out Indians they hate me for it, blame me for the British, so with that Incite I can 100% see how China is holding US Responsible for the British Empires Opium War and doing one Right Back to US!

I just hate my life

Wait, did you mean 1 in 13 Chinese males where hooked on opium at its heights? GED is in the mail?

Great video but minor gripe about the UK map, England and Britain are not the same thing, Britain includes wales and Scotland, geographically and politically. And the UK included Ireland in the 19th century. Kinda of important since the opium wars was started by largely Scottish opium dealers who became the richest traders in the British empire

Lmao

Drug problems is also in the UK. It's just the U.S is bigger and the numbers in the UK don't seem that bad.

Same shit different toilet really.

China is doing this to all countries, but yes, they focus on the US because we're their biggest "obstacle".

@@houseofhas9355 In UK is not as bad as in US

Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.

Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏

Yes sure of Dr.alishrooms. 100% agree I used to have Psychosis and paranoid thoughts like "people thinking about me talking about me etc. Very odd behavior after getting off Adderall from 7-16. Antidepressants at 18-29. 31 now. I took way to much, but took about 20g of Gold caps (Psilocybin containing mushroom) I analyzed my entire life. The emotions that came out helped me understand behavior etc more. Wont ever need to do it again because I'm happy and contempt forever, but I wish more people did this to alter their perception of reality. Would help with healing much trauma

Congrats! I'm really happy for you that your wife decided to help you. I always admire those who beat their addiction. Knowing it's possible to fix your life knowing there's people out there that have done what I thought was impossible gives me hope I will make it through as well. Those who share their experiences don't know how much it helps when you're about to give up, it gives you the strength knowing somone who actully know what it's like to go through this tell you it's possible, it's not the same somone telling you you can do it when they have no idea what it's like, but hearing somone who knows what it's like that helps a lot since you understand it firsthand and made it out gives so much hope. so thanks for sharing.

How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta

Australia is like an early version of America, in a few years time it will be no better.

Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood you, but are you saying that Australian doctors refuse their patients adequate pain medication?

​​@@daveanderson3805 Not at all. If I'm not wrong a prescription is required to obtain opium based pain killers (codeine etc). When the purchase is made, details are put on a data base to prevent the purchaser visiting multiple doctors and getting scripts to buy multiple boxes of pain killers. Opioids cannot be bought OTC in Australia and Medicare /Private insurance details are recorded when visiting a doctor.

@@daveanderson3805 there are many options before jumping to opioids

Some people actually need opioid pain medications and take them responsibly you know. Painting them all as addicts looking for a fix is horrible and that's how the US is now. We wouldn't even be dealing with this fentanyl nonsense if doctors weren't punished for prescribing pain medications.

Sadly your absolutely correct 🙄🤦

@@floydsemlow8253 I know. I've been dealing with Chronic Pain since July of 1993. (I'm 53 now) It took 20 years and a dozen doctors to finally find the cause (Inoperable Spinal Damage), 3 surgeons to tell me it was inoperable and 2 years to find a pain doctor that was willing to deal with the severity of it. So, I only had roughly 1 year of moderately adequate pain relief before this 'Opiates are the Devil' insanity kicked in. Now, because I am almost totally disabled, my Wife of 15 years is divorcing me. Not because I am a boat anchor to her, no, that couldn't possibly be the reason. It's because I'm a 'Selfish, Betraying, Gold-Digging, Sexist, Racist, Transphobe, Nazi.'

Yep. Despite all evidence to the contrary, the rx restrictions have continued in an attempt to stop... illicit opioid deaths? It makes no sense. Thank the gods for Kratom.

THIS. Is the fact. And people should know this. Same happened in Europe. It's not the 80's-early 2000's anymore when everyone could get strong opioids or benzos from doctors, anywhere, anytime. Yet the media paint the picture it is like this. It is not. Drugs are on the street now, and are dangerous. AND EXPENSIVE. Dangerous+expensive+illegal = not recipe for human successful life. You can't cure everything by SSRI medicines and ibuprofen. Even the older generation did have a decent medications and it wasnt a "thing". My grandmom once asked amphetamine/paracematol (they do the same medicine nowadays but cofeine instead SPEED) powder for flu, because they used to get medicines like it without any recipe. And there was HUGE opioid problem worldwide after WW2. Media is lying.

We're treated WORSE than addicts. Dr looks at your chart to see medication list, tells you they wouldn't give you anything even remotely like it & that they wouldn't prescribe any of them even though 1 prescription was for Ibuprofen. How are you going to treat my pain? We're going with the 'Holistic approach, yeah see, it's all in your mind and we can help with that! We have OT Therapists, PT Therapists, Hypnotists, Chiropractors but you know, it's really not my problem, the CDC said 10mg, 10mg it is all across the board-.... You no longer have a Physician who actually cares about their patient, wants to help them with their pain-those ones are the first told that their license will be revoked if they don't start weening them off it asap. I've had 6 Doctors leave the State because of that. The big, white elephant's still in the room---my pain's still there, worse then ever, how is my pain being taken care of? Leave the fentanyl alone! It DOES work, it's been a miracle for me. TY for the shout out re CPP's🤗

Purdue pharma and the slaker are behind the crysis... Not China..

You are absolutely right ,agree with you,pal.

Absolutely. I remember when I first started seeing commercials for prescription drugs in the late 1990s I could not believe what I was seeing.

You're spreading propaganda and outright lies. While pharma companies are indeed criminal, most people in prison are not there for simple possession. Possession of weed is legal medically in the majority of the country, and recreationally in many states too. People in prison "for weed" had a weed charge along with a burglary/assault/battery/intent-to-sell/or a bunch of other drugs on them. I did time in Florida more than once and never did I ever meet a single person who was doing a sentence for marijuana possession alone.

China would still be responsible for intentional actions of they occured, as is trump for unexpected results to antagonizing them. America is responsible for being enough of a shit show for this to happen without geopolitical warfare needed, being like an open wound wondering who's to blame for it getting infected.

100%. The truth that no one will talk about for various reasons. Since it means the leaders admitting to their failures. Admitting to letting drug company get away with creating the opioid crisis in the first place. Admitting to failing the American people. Admitting to cultural problem.

Exactly Portugal made it's drug crisis a medical problem rather than a ciminal one... huge improvements....

@@tomriley5790People feeling unhappy is not a medical problem..

Mexico can't be trusted to take care of problem, they just blame us

​@@tomriley5790That failed, drug seizures are up as are cases of addiction.

I mean, there technically is still heroin. It's just that unless you're well connected to the smugglers, your probably never going to find it. By the time it ends up in the hands of the average street user, to it's probably just going to fentanyl and creatine. The 'good stuff' doesn't travel nearly as far as it used to, because fent is just so much cheaper and easier to find.

Anecdotally I can say that where you used to see junkies in sesttle shooting up, you almost never see needles anymore. Just people smoking pills off of foil.

@@skp8748this is a self inflicted problem. Legalize opium and the demand for fentanyl disappears. It’s not like drug prohibition is stopping by addicts from using drugs anyway.

A drug is a drug is a drug. 60s-70s it was LSD. 80s-90s it was Crack. Now it's fentanyl. There will be something after fentanyl.

@@sittinheretooare you seriously comparing LSD to fentanyl?

Congratulations for being clean!

Just remember bro she don’t blame you for it, now you gotta stay clean for her now, well done for doing so bruvva, she’s looking down on you proud

Keep being yourself, not a drug consumer for foreign gain.

Pray for your strength, brother. Take care.

Hey man I just want to say- I’m sure she would not blame you. Nor would she want you to blame yourself. She would want you to push on, stay alive, stay clean and healthy, and live life happily. Don’t let her down man. Much love. 💛

Yes it is doable, I'm not here to say it's not, but your experience is not the norm necessarily. Withdrawal from these can suck ass, could always be worse, but getting these out of me made for the most miserable and bizzarre 4 days I've ever had. It all depends on the person and how much they were taking. I also quit cold turkey coming up on 10 months ago. It was HELL. I really lost myself to this drug, I'm an addict to many other things, but have kept myself together mostly. Didn't on these though. I was driving 5 hours a more than once a week to a nearby big city to get the 'good' blue counterfeit perc 30s, mboxes, just like in the images shown in this video. I was snorting no less than 5 every single day for over a year from the start. Many days, especially after growing a tolerance, I'd use 9, 10, 11, in 24 hours, and do it again and again. Once I started, I just couldn't stop, and every time I did more, it's like it became ingrained in me. For the last 2 months of my addiction, I was telling myself I'd stop and really wanted to, but at the same time, I took almost 600 of these pills in just those 2 months alone. Over the course of my almost 2 year fentanyl addiction, I had to have taken thousands. My tolerance got insane, and it was a miracle I somehow always woke up. I think about it daily still, how much of a gift it is to be here. I only ended up stopping when every single one of my many dealers all went dry at the same time, and at such a high dose; I wouldn't have lasted a week without them. I took off work that weekend from the restaurant I worked at and looked into getting suboxone. My buddy I'd buy these with told me about it. You can't just switch to suboxone immediately though, the other opioids need to be all out or else subs only worsen the withdrawals. I ran out at 12pm on a Friday, met with a nurse practitioner to get suboxone, and went back to my house to ride it out. Friday was alright up until nighttime when I couldn't sleep for shit no matter how many xans I took, and I really really wanted to get high, was looking everywhere to no avail. For the next 3 days, from Friday at noon to Monday at around 8pm, I was writhing in bed, pain all over my body, heart beating out of my chest, absolutely massive pupils, switching between being cold with goosebumps and hot and sweating. I didn't eat or sleep until Monday night after taking the suboxone, and it all felt like a horrible dream. I had such a massive headache and couldn't think straight. The only thoughts I had were nightmarish and delusional, I basically just lost my mind in my room freaking out for 3 days. I can't even begin to describe all the symptoms either, but I can say that I've never felt so hollow, or even hollow like that at all. Was just dissociating by day 2. Early on when I still was trying to eat or drink water, I'd puke it immediately and never had diarrhea because I hadn't seen food since Thursday, only the water got down. As bad as the puking was though, I was used to puking daily already from the drugs, those other symptoms though were unlike anything I've ever felt or want to feel again. I couldn't stop shaking and felt completely hollow inside while my sleepless brain tortured me. Xanax couldn't touch the anxiety, and oh boy did I try, I took so much xanax that weekend and it didn't help for shitttt. Nothing did. Everything was way more intense than normal reality, but I was also dissociated, so it was dreamlike, like a nightmare. By the time Monday night came around and it was out of me enough to start the subs, I felt as if I'd died and came back. I've gone through moderate o severe withdrawals before from xanax, adderall, cocaine, weed, and other opioids, and none of that shit compared to this in the slightest with how much I was coming off of and how suddenly I had to stop. I know that xanax withdrawal can be much more serious with seizures, but unlike with fent, I've always kept my head on with xanax and would take at most 3 bars, 6mg, and often less. Looking back, I really wish I'd have gone to a hospital, where they could have kept an eye on me, given me an IV, and given me a cocktail of drugs to lessen the symptoms, instead of just going for it all alone in my room. All I could do is pray and shake and wish I was dead, fucking whimper, and maybe hop in the shower to feel some hot water for a couple minutes now and again. It's like all the highs I had had built up the chemical for me and I was having an equal, much more condensed, low. I've never regretted my choices so much as the ones that got me there. All that said, I just wanted to tell you my story, tell others, and give a lived example of how everyone's experiences will be different. I am very, very lucky I was forced to come clean, or else I don't think I would have made it another 10 months at the dose I left off, let alone with the rate at which said dose was increasing. All it took were bad days and then my daily dose, x, became x+1 or x+2, and until the end of time. This drug has an incredibly strong grip on a person once you start, and I'm really proud of you for coming off such a drug, especially cold turkey, it is no easy feat. Only reason I did is because I had no other option, I entered that weekend kicking and screaming trying to turn over every possible rock for a way out of my fate. To choose that takes serious guts and balls, and for that, you may also just be a tougher man than I. The most difficult choices are often the most rewarding though. Hope you have a beautiful life my man :)

@@joey_da_blowyglad you are still here with us friend.

@meat3958 @joey_da_blowy I’m glad y’all made it out and I appreciate your stories. I worked for a recovery program for a bit and it’s good to hear success stories.

God bless you!! And congratulations 💯💯🙌🏻🙌🏻

Restless leg is f@cking insane and watching the clock tick when minutes seem like years is a mind breaker hats off to you for going cold it takes a true soldier. From one soldier to another..well done my friend!

You got that right. Hard to be healthy in a sick world.

You see the depravity of this society on full display in what solutions are proposed to the problem. It’s always violent shit like lock everyone up or send the marines into Mexico. It’s ridiculous and hard to believe clowns like this channel don’t see the obvious solution of improving QoL to the point of drug escapism is less relevant.

The world is getting sick cause people are taking drugs and not doing anything about it

First you have over prescription to the wealthy, the impose massive poverty on the poor, then ignore 20 years of vets coming home with brain trauma, and not helped. None of this happened over night! It been a republican tactic since Nixon lied about pot. And made it scheduled 1. Then in the 80 flooding the black neighborhoods with Crack. As for the middle east and Central American crisis look at the Bush family that turned the usa into war criminals! Everything we zre suffering from is direct results of republican policies past coming back to haunt us because of short vision! Same reason all our jobs are in China or Mexico. 1st they creat the problem then blame someone else when the crap hits the fan!

You bore me greatly.

I don’t think that we’re “obsessed” I think negative news about things like homelessness and gang violence aren’t suppressed in the news and culture like they would be in China

That’s what makes it an easy win to pump the junk in. It makes them look like they did nothing.

​@@CausticPuffinwell blame the buyers the market exist because someone want it

@@DeathDespairDestruction There's blame to go around. It's not like someone can be 30% liable and the other party 70%, they're both entirely culpable.

@@tjdjultimalol if there were gangs and violence that open, China would suppress them. It’s not just the news. They have zero tolerance for open criminality

Huge congratulations brother

Glad you are winning the battle, super congratz!

Well doen.

Respect.

@franktothemax Well done! 💪

So happy for you 👏

@flowwesterly6136 thank you flow 🙏🏼 very kind of you

agreed, doesn't matter if it's China, the cartels, whatever ... if there's demand there will always be supply

@@topspot4834eliminating the demand is far more important than the supply

@@topspot4834it does matter and children need a father and mother. While schools should focus on teaching rather than politics. All the while the us military is fucking the providers in the ass.

@@topspot4834 The government needs to stop bending their backs to Pfizer and other big pharmaceutical companies. Idk why we’re blaming Mexico and China when a we know who is selling it.

Really disappointed that this channel is using trump and rogan to provide material for this video. Chris your better then this. Quoting a rapist, a conman, a child abuser, a traitor to the US and the western alliance. Literally Putins boy. And rogan helped him get to that position by peddling and echoing alt right disinformation. It's really disgusting actually. Is China doing this, sure. To make a buck, to weaken Americans but the genie is out of the bottle. Even if China tomorrow stops producing fent it can be easily produced any where in the world. What needs to be cured is America and the western world. Most addicts are trapped due to the withdrawals chronic use results in. Whether you got addicted due to injury, (vets have a lotta injuries) to suffering the physical and emotional pain of abuse, or you have a chronic condition or terminal illness fent/opiate addict does not discriminate. The idea after taking these drugs daily for say 6 months that you can just stop is the biggest medical lie in the world. Fent, opiates, opioods etc (morphine-3-glucuronide) triggers the activation of Proinflammatory cytokines in people, all people. Lots of cytokines build up = shitty withdrawals however for those who have suffered chronic abuse (physical, emotional and sexual during pre and post natal development) their brain is on a hair trigger and they've been making these cytokines anytime their stressed or abused (which in today's society is like always). These cytokines are involved in fighting viruses and bacteria but when exposed to chronic levels it screws with dopamine, GABA and serotonin (in the gut as well hence IBS) depression, eating disorders, anxiety and other disorders making the individual very vulnerabie to the pain relief that opiates provide. Imagine having a headache that you were born with and suddenly you experience life without pain. But then some asshole yiutuber tries to tell you that opiates are bad and China did this to you. Opiates trigger make more cytokines which require more opiates to block which makes more cytokines which requires more opiates. This is literally the positive feedback loop that is addiction. It's why people will do almost anything to not go through a cytokines storm of withdrawals. Especially these people who have a ultra sensitive immune system caused by abuse when they were in the womb and childhood. Its also the mechanism behind much most other drug addiction. Yeah alcohol, amphetamines, alkaloids like coke might not directly bind to your immune system in your brain but anything making it past the blood brain barrier will trigger this (not to mention their own nuerotoxicity effects). Anyway making fent schedule 1 will cause even more chronic pain suffers to kill themselves. DEA is shutting down so many legitimate doctors and pain specialist that people are eating bullets then go through opiod withdrawal. It breaks my heart every time I see a stage 3 and 4 cancer sufferer kill themselves because they've discovered that the last pain specialists has been bullied/forced to shut down by the DEA. So Chris, when you advocate for stuff like this your condoning hundreds of thousands of innocent people to the most painful deaths imaginable. Imagine the pain of MS or terminal cancer whilst going through opiod withdrawal. You people make me sick. Take your worst pain and multiple it by 100 and your still it even closed. Bullet wounds, being stabbed, kidney stones, pah, has nothing on this but hey keep looking down your nose at addicts for being so weak. The real solution to the opiate and opiod pandemic is to give people opiates via an expanded clinic system that is already responsible for the massive drop in crime that we saw at the turn of the century. Methadone, Buprenorphine (and the slow release versions) with morphine would end the illegal black market literally tomorrow. Instead of wasting money on the cops you could funnel that expenditure into clinics that provide a host of social services and even afford a UBI, whilst we help them get educated, get good jobs, be able to pay/rent a house. Get them good medical treatment and psychological care. Provide a nurse to visit every at risk you family (you know the 18s who had a baby at 17 and come chronic abuse themselves). Stablise d their addiction, give them cytokines blocking drugs (ibudilast) and you watch as people will voluntarily give it up (wiki rat Park 1970s). Instead the US waste some where in order of $4-7b per state on the war on drugs every year and they have nothing to show for it. $200b a year, 2 trillion every decade. And yet I can get drugs, any drugs, without leaving my home. Drugs are awash everywhere and the cops and military are the biggest losers in every western country. You've invaded Mexico and south America, you've given military weapons, flown the missions yourself, shot down cartel planes with f-16s, had E-2s fly the gulf of Mexico. You tried all that and it failed. It did nothing but ruin your military equipment for missions it wasn't designed for. It corrupted and broke your law enforcement and military forces involved on the ground and it resulted in the rise of the Mexican cartels, a force/genie that also can't be put in the bottle. We get daily, weekly breathless reports from every city in the western world of drug traffickers being arrested, drugs on the table. I randomly browse city/local newspapers across the US, Canada, UK and Australia and their ideni And helping people to learn, create and live isn't possible when we spend $15b on a fucking super carrier. But hey you know what the definition of the United States's drug law is, to spend literally trillions of dollars, imprisoning an entire generation, allowing millions to die and do it over and over and over and over and over and think "hey let's keep doing this". ........

Sacklers

I'd like to think the US has enough grit and structure to fight against that kind of self consumption. But with the way media controls public attention, it seems like any kind of insanity can be perpetuated for profits nowadays.

Try getting a prescription for pain pills…

@@Ravn8 I mean there are American politicians from Colorado who for years argued for harsher drug law punishments especially for marijuana but once it started to become less stigmatized they were the same ones pushing for legalization because they had stakes in dispensaries and other weed businesses. When moneys involved I wouldn’t doubt it if they lied through their teeths to get some of it.

@@kenjethao7774 how much of that cake does the "cya" and "dia" take? They became famous for their questionable methods in colombia, but with china they can get richier, or maybe they are looking for all those dollars that are in the asian region.

Back in 2002 it's suspected Russia used a derivative Fentanyl gas to knock out the people inside the Moscow Theater during the hostage crisis. It ended up killing about 200 civilians. The opening scene of Tenet is loosely based on that night.

My sister was on the patch for a few years because she had a terrible accident that ended up taking her life in the end. People make it sound like all fentanyl is bad. If used incorrectly it definitely can be but they are making this stuff in the woods with no regard to the quality.

I would believe this if your grammar wasn’t so poor.

At a hospital given by them yes. I had a procedure they knocked me out with that.

@@fabreasy304 What you don't believe him because his gramma is poor? Fentanyl is commonly used in hospitals for pain management. This isn't some big secret or conspiracy.

thats how normal people do it

Not really, I took as much as I could while in the hospital and hd zero worry about becoming addicted.

@@paintpaintpaintco.6039 normally you'd stop taking it over time (latest when u empty the box). Its the definition of an addiction. If you continue, thinking of a need, you are addicted. One main problem is, that a lot of dr's did prescribe them for too long rather than switching to weaker medication or reducing the painkillers completely, like it is normally done in other countries: thats what caused the addiction in the first place.

😂 you did not have a dose of fentanyl 😂 and feel good about it. I’m a fentanyl addict. You didn’t do “a dose of fentanyl” and feel good about it 😂 but then be like “that was so much fun I better stop before I become addicted but man was that great” 😂 I went from hydrocodine to heroin to fentanyl 😂 You took “just a little bit” and felt great 😂 for the first 3 months I couldn’t even stomach a single hit I so I threw hundreds of times for months on end until k finally got used to it. You’re so full of crap 😂

​@@paintpaintpaintco.6039you may feel that way now 🤷

The funny part is you probably couldn’t even get a job with the US govt 😂 And trust me they have some knuckle draggers working for them and yet here you are relegated to a KZfaq comment section 😂

China is contributing to the fetanyl crisis in America by allowing fetanyl to be produced inside its borders legaly. This is then distributed to american citizens which causes american society to suffer. Why would America not adress this problem? There are many nuances to Americas drug crisis but why would they neglect Chinas role?

​@@Person0fColorwhy would I want to work for the government only so the republicans won't pay when they shut down the government again because they didn't bring back slavery or whatever

​@angelcabeza6464 the Republicans fought against slavery . It was the democrats who wanted it lol

​​@@angelcabeza6464what? Your comment doesn't make any sense

Great comment , and that’s a great quote , whoever actually said it that’s a powerful point

It is not that simple. Even animals seek altered psychological states. It is not only about desperation or hopelesness. It just is, sometimes for just fun. The problem is that it is addictive and harmful (in most cases).

@@marsovacno one does Fent for fun -_-

I hate to answer this, but one answer is that America is not a country. Its a jungle with a giant wall around it called the American Military, and inside the jungle you are subject to the laws of nature. Other countries are groups. The united states is a wilderness container with just a few laws overlayed across it.

BECAUSE is SO AVAILABLE........THE BORDER IS wide open

Geez, almost like a for~profit based health system is ripe for intentionally inducing a population to substance addiction.

Your whole country bro 😢

defo gonna end in war or you know the Epstein thing

⁠@@DonkNinjayour women would run to the USA in a heartbeat.

Drug heads and pot heads love to buy from Chinese stores that sells dead low price MADE IN CHINA goods, and the Chinese importers in the USA importing goods that’s hilarious, or import goods made by other countries like they’re stupid, stupid importers with no morales and good brains! Chaos! Some of the Chinese and Arabs working in the USA are bring down the country! Hehe! Not to mention the Palestinians!

As if the US doesn't do the same and bring all the guns into Mexico

You are spot on

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This. I think that it is also wise to point out that the main talking points of the DNC are political correctness, and more recently, identity politics. These are the cornerstones of maoism. I can't be the only person that finds this suspicious.

glad to see some know of that book...every time I see this topic being discussed no one ever mentions it

you're never an ex-addict, youre just in recovery

On an individual level, thats the attitude to take. On a social level, we do need to look at the causes of large scale problems

@@yeettheskeet9710 This isn’t true, there are alcoholics who recover and learn to drink responsibly. He’s correct, there’s no one to blame other than the one that makes the choice.

@@paultardspambot for sure. It's a systemical issue, even if there of course is the argument of "personal choice" - but I feel it lacks the full explanation. Much like blaming the consumer for global warming whilst oil companies supress public opinion, gaslight, and obstruct. Pretending any single person truly has a choice when behind every product are fossil products used, the difference is minimal between brands, and with it is a whole system for getting people hooked on whatever it is. Products in general are made to be addictive, not just social media and the death scrolling, and without true community I think people are more easily converted to brand sects

​@paultardspambot Exactly. What advice you give to your buddy with a problem is not the same as what actions we need to take to address an issue as a country.

Well said^

Counter point, tons of addicts today never had a Purdue oxy. They started with Mexican pills. The Purdue pills were highly regulated, and didn't have "hot" batches, that killed people as randomly. The rate of opioid overdose was far far lower during the oxy crisis than today.

The decline of an empire marked by a mass drug addiction.

​@@pjw3438exactly, when the politicians say "Let's go to war with cartels" they're stupid. They allowed this problem to grow in order to fund wars in the middle east.

@pierredelecto7069 Exactly. Pharma pills are safe compared to the fake stuff going around now. When you know how much you’re taking, it’s easy to not OD. Things only started getting bad after the DEA crackdown starting in like 2013-2014. A lot of people were taken off of their pills and switched to heroin, which by 2015 was basically all laced with fentanyl.

Who told you this???

@@shickakaper8028you can just look these things up it’s public info

​@@shickakaper8028you know, they probably work in medicine, which we use peer reviewed literature. Make sense?

Ketamine.

Pain builds character.

It’s an unfortunate reality todsy

This is everyday story down there

The US didn't have anything to do with the Opium Wars. The CCP uses fentanyl as a weapon against US society. The CCP learned an old trick, and are now using it. The CCP is very cynical in that way, the chances of them regaining trust of the US is effectively zero at this point.

The Opium Wars were between Britain and China, not the West and China.

Winnie the Pooh happy with you. Here 50 cent comrade 🤏

True.

It's certainly not India's Problem We are having our own drug crisis over here. Fun fact:- When schools were closed in 2020 and 2021, the gardener of my school planted a 300 sq. Feet poppy garden in my school and earned a small fortune by selling it to the creeps. Lol shit is crazy. A 9th grade student in my school has been addicted to sulfonamides since grade 6 and roams in the wilderness during the afternoons looking for something to get high.

Same here.

Exactly. This is what I wrote in my more detailed comment: "Interesting video but it missed KEY INFO: the majority of Fentanyl drug deaths are actually due to contaminated supplies of 'normal' drugs such as ecstasy & cocaine, and hard drugs like heroin & meth. There are millions of North Americans, including athletes & lawyers, who use the first two drugs without being 'addicts' but now they're OD'ing on these adulterated drugs. The US has already gone through this a century ago, with Prohibition. Hundreds of Americans were dying every month from drinking adulterated alcohol, thinking it was pure ethanol but actually it was 'denatured alcohol' (which has added methanol to intentionally make it undrinkable & poisonous). So what solution did the US Gov at the time come up with? Laws were passed to make denatured alcohol EVEN MORE poisonous, so people wouldn't be tempted to drink it. How do you think that turned out? More people died and the Mafia got a great start. Summary: The drug crisis only exists because recreational drugs and illegal and thus only criminals sell them, and you can't trust criminals. Switzerland understood this, decriminalized heroin in the face of strong US pressure, and has had a huge drop in OD deaths, AIDS transmission & crime. Addicts can just get a heroin prescription and it costs the Swiss government a fraction of what it was spending on police, courts, judges, prisons, ambulances, etc. When will the US ever learn that the "War on Drugs" is a failure? "

​@@carlos130895douchebag

Perscribed fentanyl was sent home with people and this 'epidemic' didn't exist. The issue is mexican cartels aren't pharmacists. They're selling overdoses.

People buy fentanyl. They seek fentanyl. It is not laced in any drugs. It's not good for business to mix fentanyl in any other drug.

George Floyd was...

Yup. China can make and sell anything they want. No other country has an issue with Fentanyl like America does. I thought America was all about freedom of choice and personal responsiblity etc?

America has to use the same system that China used to get rid of illegal drug use, people will not stop drug use on their own .

Marijuana makes a joke of the scheduling. The DEA has failed us in every possible way.

​@jimjones994 China hasn't 'got rid' of a drug problem. Drugs are in every nightclub in China, KTV's are full of prostitutes on meth and truckers use Amphetamines like candy to stay awake. There was a whole village busted making Ice a few years ago, the whole damn village was making it. China's drug problem is well hidden because the press and television are state controlled. I lived in China for many years, and the reality there is different from what they portray officially. It's really different from most other countries in that it isn't front and centre on their city streets and in their news.

⁠@@sleepyjoe4529you clearly don’t understand basic concepts and definitions of freedom, liberty and license. This is a free country but you may be surprised to learn that that’s doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. 😂 You need a history lesson if you seriously are saying stuff like “I thought this was a free country” You can’t murder anyone either that doesn’t make us less free because they govt took away one of your choices as a matter of fact it’s because the state denies you that choice that others get to experience liberty for themselves. God you are low IQ go watch some more Jordan Peterson or something dood 😂

Sorry to break it to you buuut it’s everywhere… disguised as anything.. bcuz china and Mexico just wanna ruin the world apparently

Its crazy to hear that in Canada there's 21 deaths a day. Its horrifying. Its wild to imagine a country without this problem. I went to a store today, and the owners daughter had died the week before at 24. Awful thing, thats gotten much worse since the pandemic in Canada.

The USA is fighting against Fentanyl like they fought against Daesh in Syria (LOL). China, after having exported its COVID with the complicity of the USA and their Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson labs... in order to subjugate the people, the Chinese PC exports its drugs to zombify them or TIkTOk to stupefy them and recover personal information. This is indeed a sneaky world war led by China and the USA in order to share the world, because as Xi Jinping very well said and confirmed to Biden during their last recent meeting at the APEC summit. : ''the world is big enough for our two countries to prosper''.

​@@kevincameron192all this because of China

shit that becomes popular in the US sooner or later ends up exported to the rest of the West. Just give it a couple of years.

THEY DO NOT FORGET.

Yep. Me too.

@@organicwest as they should

They literally call those years "The Century of Humiliation"

You can blame the Sackler family for giving the Chinese the idea.

Geopolitics is not a different subject.

@@BattleBrotherCastem don’t get your panties twisted 😅

Be a big boy and admit you're wrong- that response shows me you're the one wearing the panties.@@msaintjo

Exactly I've been thinking the same thing

👏🏼... 👊🏼

Proud of you. You’re mentally strong. You can get off methadone too! Replace it with THC or Shrooms, I believe in you!

My goal is to not be reliant on any substance that makes me feel bad if I don't have it Even little things like cigarettes and coffee are still substances at the end of the day Oh and before you think I'm some angel? The last time I took an opiate was about a month ago Break those chains, free your mind❤😊😊

I knew a doctor who ran the Hong Kong's government main drug rehab centre. The commonest drug was then heroin.I asked him what's the difference between heroin and methadone? He said "methadone is legal." It is simply a synthetic heroin and is addictive too. It is a path to get clean if combined with counseling and support. IMO it is principally a health problem.

We need to stop lying to are selves. Drugs can be used as a weapon of war. It is called drug flooding and a invention of the Brins.

Correct! They will blame India soon for Fentanyl supply but will not fix their own border. There is no Fentanyl problem in India despite it being manufactured here in many places. Root cause is Mexican Cartels and culture of using drugs thinking it's cool.

They ain't buying😅

Having lived in Africa, I can tell you drug use is not really in the culture -- even seeing someone smoking cigarettes is fairly rare. That said they are more than willing to smuggle it out of Asia and into Europe though.

@@shawnxl2419haha don’t buy it problem solved

>economic and chemical warfare Sounds like they are beginning to taste their own medicine

@@robw6954 Bullshit, US didn't use chemical warfare on other nations. England did the opium war on China, and the Germans were the first to use gas on the frontlines in WWI. US doesn't have to wage any sort of economic warfare, it just does better than anyone else economically so that no one else will have a chance in a war of attrition. It's those third world shitholes that seize assets of American companies that wage economic warfare and get served.

@@robw6954example of chemical warfare?

But the warfare is fight by rich american families against poor american. The Slakers and Purdue pharma are responsible and had to pay few millions for the death of millions and millions... This is pure disinformation...

They dont care they will never do anything about it. They rather focus on bs and getting votes while people die. Or theyll say theyll do something but never actually will. They make money off deaths off sickness and off war. THEY WILL NEVER FIX IT.

Great info!

1. New Zealand is the only other country that allows drugs to be advertised to consumers. 2. Yes doctors were given incentives and for some that was all that was needed, but Oxycodone was marketed to doctors as less addictive and pharmaceutical companies recommended ever higher doses even after becoming very well aware of the dangers. 3. In the 90's doctors were getting taught to treat the symptom of pain as a priority over finding and treating the underlying cause of the pain. It wasn't simply some doctors deciding to give out more pain medication, their governing bodies were telling them they had to and they could get sued if they refused to give pain medications.

Why treat the root cause when you can make money treating aliments wayyy longer. It's a better business model to not cure anything.

3. it's your job to say no

"USA is the only developed country that allows medicine ads targeted to the patients. That certainly factors in the epidemic.".. you mean prescription medicine ads or over the counter?

You know that will never happen.

​ GUESS WHY THE USA WENT TO AFGHANISTAN AFTER IRAQ IN THE EARLY 00'S. YES, TO GROW ALL THE POPPIES FOR ALL OF THIS FENTANYL! The Bush family, starting with George when he was placed in the C.I.A. Directorship by LBJ himself after the JFK assassination, headed up operations in S. America to grow all that cocaine in the late 70's and then to fuel the Crack Epidemic in concert with Jewish record labels that talent hunted Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur among others for the instructional soundtrack to further destroy the Black Community, LBJ's welfare and affirmative action destroying the family rapidly from the late 60s (see Thomas Sowell, a black intellectual, for more details and statistics). HOW COULD YOU MISS ALL OF THIS, Task & Purpose? ESPECIALLY AFGHANISTAN? Those laws (minor drug laws, replying to other user) were DIRECTLY WRITTEN and promoted through Congress by Joe Biden and Hillary and Bill Clinton. Biden spearheaded anti-2A legislation in the early 90's that has regular citizens unprepared to defend themselves against A) an increasingly abusive government per the 2A's main purpose, and B) better armed criminals that receive ammo drops from CIA and other proxy organizations that run guns in from Mexico along with the drugs from Afghanistan poppy fields through Chinese processing and Mexican distribution. The Soviet-Communist-Lenin playbook for attacking the West strongly depends on pumping destructive, addictive drugs into their enemies' populations, just like the jews did in China when they ran the British East India company as a means of enslaving and colonizing China in the Opium Wars, the same family that runs Fentanyl in the USA being that family from the Opium Wars. Crazy, innit? It's almost like the victors write the history books and leave out their own culpability. Like with the Atlantic Slave Trade, look up who owned 90%+ of the slave and almost all of the slave ships, too. And dig up "We Thought They Were White", written by Dontell Jackson, go to yandex search engine if you have to, the original site was shut down in the last couple of years. Archive dot organization has it.

They have Fentanyl test kits that could be simplified and made cheaper. These should be made available publicly for FREE (like they are doing with NARCAN) so people can determine if their meth or other drugs is adulterated with Fentanyl.

THEY HAVE TEST STRIPS THEY JUST HAVE SACRAFICE SOME

I am not clear what that sentence means.....@@tylerlormand5644

Liar

It's because a drug dealer in USA can buy online legal ingredients in China to get mailed to them. You can pretty much get anything, it's all synthetic

Their Big Pharma companies are selling them dangerous drugs knowing they are going to get them addicted and later killed, but the government is so corrupt that they don't care....their doctors are getting money for prescribing dangerous pills....the people who should save you are the ones who are complicit in murder.....but it's China's fault! 🤣🤣😂😂

Looking inwards is not America’s strong suit….

@@tat3179 you got that right

Fentanyl wasn’t even a thing here 5-10 years ago… most people who die from fent didn’t even know they ingested it.

What country are you from?

? Bullshit I’m a fentanyl addict this is just horse shit 😂

The CCP will pay

I'm sorry for your loss...stay strong.

My dad uses drugs. It's not China, it's an American problem and when we blame China we dont fix anything

Literally what the Chinese told the US... They even said the US is the largest producer of fentanyl and it is the largest consumer of prescription opiates... You can't blame china AT ALL

That reveals that the DEA does not have science, but rather an agenda. It cannot see that it is its own worst enemy, and ours. 🇺🇸

Actually its utterly corrupt and racist too.

Same with psychedelics

same

I'm really not sure what the point of inflating the price was, considering that fentanyl is cheap and ubiquitous on every street corner. The whole thing is really boneheaded. I have no doubt thatof the people making these asinine policies are chronic pain sufferers, just a bunch of eggheads and reactionaries.

The real problem is this "war" on drugs hurting people in chronic pain like yourself, and myself. Consider yourself fortunate you at least have something to help you manage your pain. Before having to retire due to disability I was a medic and a BSN. I've seen too many people die suffering, and needlessly so. I have seen people off themselves because of how badly they hurt, or people who could not get any help even though they tried and did everything but scream 'help' from on top of a mountain that ended up turning to street drugs and self-medicating just to try and get by. I have literally seen doctors quit from a group practice, or just general primary care providers up and move to a different state because their hands were being tied so badly they could not even treat their own patients the way they believed they needed to be treated. The word "pain" has become a no-no word. You even mention it and half the time the atmosphere in the doctor's office immediately changes and you get looked at like you're a drug seeker. We used to be taught pain was the 5th vital sign. That entire '5th vital sign' campaign was waged because health care professionals very often ignored patients suffering from pain. Yet after the opioid "epidemic" of the late 00's early 10's the effects have carried on right to this day. We're right back to where we were 30-40 years ago. Even end of life hospice care has been effected. I heard stories but never personally witnessed it until I lost my father in February. This needs to change, and it needs to change yesterday for the benefit of a lot of desperate and ill people.

​@@fubar5884 Yup. I don't even mention it anymore. It's crazy out there. There is a demonstrable link between undertreated pain and suicide. They really pulled the rug out from under millions of people.

​@@chompachangas Yeah, our healthcare system is crazy, messed up six ways from Sunday. Medical bill and medication prices being ridiculous with some having to chose eat or buy your prescriptions this month, the poor care people are getting, how insurance tries to deny coverage any way they can or run you in circles if you're even lucky enough to have insurance. We have millions of people suffering from any number of medical problems that can cause severe pain who are shunned or even patient dumped from healthcare providers and automatically labeled like a criminal just because you are ill. Years ago a patient I was advocating for had terminal cancer and was given 3-6 months; was advised that chemo/radiation wouldn't buy him any time and the side effects would just deteriorate his condition ever faster. His chief complaint was his pain, he was still fighting a lot of it. He wasn't quite at the point of needing to enter hospice care, but just needed to be kept comfortable. The doctor absolutely refused to alter the patient's medication. He did not want to add anything, up the dose on anything, and even wanted to try and lower what the man was taking. His reasoning? He was afraid the patient might get "addicted." As if that was any concern when someone is told they have less than 6 months on this Earth. My jaw nearly hit the floor, and the doctor was just so cold and callus about it when we were talking. I'll remember that whole interaction till the day I die.

@@fubar5884 I couldn't agree more. We mean nothing to the system anymore. I almost find it funny on the white boards for notes in a room when I see the what's your pain icon with one end a happy face and the other a sad face. They stopped giving a damn about our pain. The idea that you can set a MAX amount of pain meds for everyone in the entire population is beyond stupid. Like there's some max amount and past that the meds don't work anymore. It's called tolerance and there's nothing wrong with that. These fools act like you can't live if you are on a large amount of pain meds. As long as one is using the meds to treat pain and not for addiction it shouldn't matter how much someone takes. Another reason why I hate government overreach or large healthcare.

🎉don't do drugs lol

what's funny about that? @@WalterKeepCoreReal

@@WalterKeepCoreReal Don't be a jerk.

Their own fault

Actually, they know this and are helping Darwin you out faster because of your libertarian theories.

@@dtsaiare you saying you are in favor of breeding people who are unable to survive and reproduce? You talk about evolution like it’s a bad thing.

Ironically Beijing believes it has overcome all those weaknesses, when really many of them still apply today -- dead experience in offensive kinetic warfare, lack of coordination between branches and commands (deliberately to prevent organization of coups), corruption throughout the officer and political corps, funded by an economy that is structurally stalling without politically viable options for recovery.

@@doujinfliptbf, do they even need to really care about combat? If it’s a limited war, then they’ll struggle for experience, but quickly gain it if necessary. 2, a total war, in which case nukes start flying and infantry is practically useless anyways.

@@doujinflip Many? Almost all of them

@@doujinflip I feel that what you are talking about is more like Washington.😅

​​@@doujinflipI don't see why you say that, unless you take saber rattling seriously. Political theatre and posturing is real and everyone practices it, but it isn't what Beijing believes. China's official stance is: 1) China is far behind the US 2) China is not a Great Power but instead just a Big Country or 大国 3) China lacks experience 4) China will lose a war against US Edit: oh you're a Zeihan follower. That explains most of your views.