China’s deadly role in America’s fentanyl epidemic | Stories of Our Times
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2023
- America’s opioid crisis is now in its third decade and has killed more people than the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam combined. Fentanyl, the most commonly used synthetic opioid, is up to 50 times stronger than heroin. Made from chemicals manufactured in China, it’s then put into pill form in Mexico and smuggled across the border. As China and the US agree to crack down on the illegal trade, is China deliberately fuelling its rival’s opioid crisis?
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The biggest problem about Fentanyl isn't that it is cheap or addictive or even that it is highly potent. The biggest "advantage" of Fentanyl is that due to its potency it can be smuggled much more cheaply, and it can be put into really any other drug without the user noticing the adulteration. And the high potency makes it harder to dose precisely, whether in pure form or mixed into other things. That's why even experienced users will overdose eventually.
Its ww3 people
What did you expect nukes?
This war is more subtle .
Communist Parties have always known the power of illicit drugs as weapon to weaken the enemy, especially if the enemy is superior in technology and economic power. Vietnam Communist Party continues to allow drugs trafficking through norther border with Laos into South Vietnam as a means of keeping the youth population in the South, always been restive since "unification" in 1975, weak with drug addiction. The UN and WHO have been funding Vietnam rehab programs which result in brand new and grand buildings built for the use of regional or district commanders as their HQ to conduct political security and other business. There are and have never been any addicts housed or been given treatments in those grand buildings
Why-o-why are American companies permitted to manufacture anything in China?
They should find better places to manufacture. Human rights and free speech yes Please
Because it's cheap and government can't control business if it's legal.
@@peace4myheart if you look at TOC and include the geopolitical risk, china no longer looks like the best option
Greedy Corporate America
Blaming others for your own problems
That's a fact. Before it was South America. Then it was Mexico. Now it's China. At some point we must own the fact that Americans are the problem. Only when rich, whyte kids start overdosing is it a national issue.
I didn't know the Sackler family were Chinese
Fentanyl was created in China. It is not technically a product of the Sackler family.
When it comes to a major problem like the opioid crisis it's never just one thing. It's not contradictoray to say that Sackler's are pure evil and that China has played a role in the fentanyl horror.
The US has the technological know how of detection. Plus they have the dogs the people numbers to do this detection. I would make all traffic go through a smaller bottleneck. The problem is on the other side let them worry about what transpires on their side. National guard would be posted for as long as it took. US has all the ingredients to stop all drugs, bring it to bare, yes you can. ✌️☘️
Shame on you all. Thanks for my brothers death. Prey on the down and out. Looks like an invasion to me. Same with the opioid (crisis) aswell. Talk to my mother about that one...
Why not ask Singapore how they control drugs problems?
Go and study their enforcement of drugs.
Rather than blaming others of your house problems 😂😂😂
Of course they do, the silent killer!
Chinese people are just making Americans feel happier. Good job
Bot controlled by CCP.
@@Leah-ju8ht send them gay-liberation
😂😂😂😂 well said!
Nil, nil, the drug is pronounced Fen-Ta-Nil. Subliterate Yanks mispronounce the final syllable as 'Awl," which is careless and incorrect. Elocution lessons for all.
@@robertcocco4930
Agreed about fentanyl. 'ol' pronunciation is for alcohols. Oxycontin was safer. Anyone who knows anything about addicts knows that if they can't get one drug they'll go for something else. Unfortunately the replacement for oxy is fentanyl. All of this was predictable.
@@robertcocco4930
Oh, get over this minor difference in pronunciation. They're the Brits who gave the secret of making nuclear bombs to Stalin. We are the Americans who created these secrets in the first place in cahoots: ruclips.net/video/sGWs1HK8iDU/видео.htmlsi=FFNdVhTYCpz4n5ht with the Brits: "My Country 'Tis of Thee": ruclips.net/video/VKj7FLg3WVA/видео.htmlsi=UjIAAlU9-5CM34AT and "God Save the Queen": ruclips.net/video/haI8HMjlE9s/видео.htmlsi=n4FYlAmDfC08iNle have the identical tune !
As long as we know what the differences are and we can rise above them, we'll be fine as the Beatles had said before, "Let it be.. Speaking words of wisdom: let it be." 😊
Hi Peter.
Did you know that men obsessed with grammar have a nearly 100 percent lack of testosterone?
Seems a soft power Commonwealth strategy could include to look into the Chinese colonial resentment of the past as a "yin" strategy, apologetic for wrongs committed in the past (example: King Willem Alexander who apologised unreservedly for slavery and trafficking in the former colonial territories) while carving out a "yang" strategy asking to cease and desist war stratagems, forever, divide and rule, forever, and to commence addressing the extensive espionage and lawlessness in order to be able to remain on good speaking terms as "fair trade" partners. Trust building has to start somewhere and time is running out.
Commonwealth nations in Asia may very well appreciate the support from the UK in this respect since sovereignty, integrity and ethics of non Chinese Asia must be respected to maintain peace with China - and so here the East could support the West🙏