[bpiche]

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[alephnerd]

What OP is referencing:

[0] - https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10890

[1] - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1779

[2] - https://www.brookings.edu/events/chinas-role-in-the-smugglin...

[papertokyo]

Also a super relevant issue: the major Mexican cartels are being armed with guns made and sold in the US in order to provide this supply.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/05/2...

[Fauntleroy]

While it doesn't encompass the entire issue, China's involvement in the fentanyl (and other US drug crises) should be mentioned more often. America needs to wake up and do something—anything—about this asymmetrical warfare attack.

[fathyb]

Isn't opioid addiction the root cause? People dying of fentanyl are mostly opioid addicts who started with prescription meds [1] such as Oxycontin.

Heroin is close to fent in lethality, and oxycodone is next in line [2].

[1] https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/prescript...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_09-508.pdf - Figure 1.

[rickydroll]

I see fentanyl as payback for East India Company's plans to get more tea. China plays the long game.

https://museum.dea.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/cannabis-coc...

> To fund their ever-increasing desire for Chinese produced tea, Britain, through their control of the East India Company, began smuggling Indian opium to China. This resulted in a soaring addiction rate among the Chinese and led to the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s. Subsequent Chinese immigration to work on the railroads and the gold rush brought opium smoking to America.

[the_70x]

Demand