Used to be
2 places in the world where poppies grow well..afghanistan and mexico. Watched 60 min documentary showimg the mexican cartels flying in the chemists through colombia, to show them how to refine opium in to its powdered form, diacetylmorphine..commonly known as "china" or "china white".
The cartels seized on our epidemic of controlled opiate addiction, and now import ton after ton of a powder far more expensive than cocaine in the US, twice as expensive actually at around 120,000 US a kilo. Some black tar heroin still comes in unrefined through California, but the vast majority is China white. Enter the chinese, who manufacture fentanyl, a chemical 50 to 100x as strong as pure uncut heroin, and dealers start adding a couple of drops to their supply to get more bang for the buck. Then they can cut their stuff by 50% or more and double their riches.
Problem is, these guys arent chemists. So they dont achieve homogenous mixtures that are the same throughout...ending up with "hot spots" in their dope. Which have a high concentration of fentanyl. This is why 140 people A DAY OVERDOSE in the US alone. 68,000 people last year died here from opiates. More than we lost in the entire Viet Nam war.
Speaking as a man who became addicted to pain pills after 5 years and 2 spine surgeries, i believe in personal accountability. Mine. And everyone elses. I also know for sure that Big Pharma knew they were pushing this crap on the public, and knew it was the single mosr addictive crap on earth.
Also the US govt passed legislation in 2001 calling pain "the 5th vital sign" and our govt, along with the medical community, decided that they were going to treat pain more aggressively. Pain pills for everyone. Nobody hurts. Ever. Bet you never hear about that part though?
All we ever hear is about these worthless addicts and junkies...destroying America because they are sick and weak. Forget about the fact that the govt, big Pharm and their lobbies, and the medical community wrote enough prescriptions fpr opiates EVERY SINGLE YEAR from about 2000 to 2015 for all 330 million americans to have a 90 day supply of vicodin or percocet. Amazing.
Damn near cost me my family and everything that matters to me. Question your doctors. Dont take pills just because they gave them to you. I never doctor shopped, never went to a pill mill...nothing. went from my primary, to a neurologist and surgeon. Did everything they ever told me to. Spine injections, PT, surgeries, spinal fusion.
If i listened to them, i would still be in some pain management facility...taking a piss test every 2 weeks and strung out on pain meds for the rest of my life. I chose to be in pain, and save my family and life.
There are crooks everywhere.
