I've personally lost friends to the Fentanyl crisis the effect its had on my country is awful and on full display on the streets of NYC and San Fran. To what extent has China contributed to the problem? Or is the crisis more the fault of the United States' hyper glorification of drugs and lax anti-drug laws? Follow for Updates on the Fentanyl War: instagram.com/cappyarmy/
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
America is one of only two countries that allow the advertising of drugs on tv and the reason the crisis exists is almost 100% due to the legal pharmaceutical companies, not the drug cartels. The amount of Americans in jail for possession of weed is incredible, while the lack of pharmaceutical company owners and executives not in jail is appalling.
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.
As a former addict myself the US is tackling this crisis along with just about every other illicit drug problem in the wrong . They keep trying to stop the supply instead of the demand. You stop one supplier another pops up. But if no buyers come, then no suppliers pop up. The opioid crisis is a mental health crisis, depression and anxiety are on the rise. Solve why so many people in the US are miserable and the drug epidemic will resolve itself. Edit: 1. My point isn’t instead of ending the supply let’s end mental illness. That’ll be a similar up hill battle with no end in sight. My point is don’t treat addicts like criminals, treat them for what they are people who are sick and need treatment. 2. The drug war which has focused on ending the supply of drugs for the last 40 years has been without a doubt a failure. Continuing to do so will only be a waste of recourses. 3. For those who aren’t convinced that’s fair you have a right to voice your disagreement, but instead of calling me crazy feel free to offer your own solution to the problem.
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.
I've been a heavy drug user since I was a teenager. I'm 59. I got sober about 10 years ago. Back when I got started drugs were "safe". You knew what you were getting most of the time and the stuff was real and it was fairly high quality. By the mid 90s things started going down hill for street drugs. They were putting a lot of weird shit in coke and heroin and meth. Pills were just starting to take off. These days you're lucky to survive partying one night with some friends. "Getting high" isn't what it used to be. Just stick to some weed and alcohol if you have to get high. I would quit entirely. Being sober is the best.
I was dabbling in cocaine heavy from 2015-2019 after I graduated high school.. after the fentanyl crisis took off during the pandemic in 2020 I said “enough is ENOUGH” with HARD drugs and I never looked back.. Fentanyl is killing EVERYONE and not just addicts.. normal people are also dying from this deadly drug as well.. people who never usually take substances who just do something during a party on the weekend or night club visit every once in a while are dying as well after taking fentanyl laced drugs and pills too.. it’s truly scary man!!
@@claudiamartinez2693well in my state i can just get it at a dispensary. america seems to be heading that way. In 15 years itll prolly be sold like alcohol is
The fact so many people take drugs for anything but their intended purposes just shows you how lost we all collectively are. We’re just trying to escape this insane world we live in
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.
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!
Getting off the stuff is just frustrating honestly, the biggest most annoying symptom is restless legs and not being able to sleep or get comfortable because I just cut cold Turkey, but to be clean is only two weeks, it felt like years for me but once sober I realized how much I was just tripping myself out and it genuinely wasn’t that bad, I just couldn’t get comfortable and was sweaty and gross, just like I was when I had a chest infection a year prior to addiction. If you’re struggling, and you’re going through this and getting off, you can do it. It really is just a terrible, terrible cold. Hold as still as humanly possible (I chose a coffin style position on my back or stomach, palms flat to the surface I was laying on) and a hot bath REALLY helps the restlessness enough to sleep for an hour or two. Once you’re over that first few days, you’re on the mend. It’s half the mental battle, and you can do it, people are proud of you, you are not a failure because you are sick and you are valued, sick or not.
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 :)
@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.
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!
After a decade of on/off homelessness and being in and out of treatment centers, I was finally able to get my shit together with medical intervention. My heart aches for those out there still suffering, man. It’s one of the hardest things a person can endure.
As a recovering addict 10 years sober I can tell you this is no joke. I am so happy I stopped and got clean or I'd be laying next to my baby sis and good friend that didn't have the help they needed. Still wake up from time to time in a cold sweat. But my ability to fight all urges and learn from my past failures, knowing what will happen if I even have an alcoholic drink, stops me in my tracks. But mostly, its knowing my little sister was in a hotel room alone, crying, in constant mental turmoil, and pain 1,000 miles away from her protector. That FAILURE as a big brother, keeps me in line. Killing me inside. And that's enough right there.......
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. 💛
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.
Sad thing is, if China opened up those companies to american investors, the political support for doing anything about it would vanish. As soon as you allow wealthy americans to get a cut of something, it loses the moral panic and becomes godly.
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.
@@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.
No one talks about why opium then and fenty now is so in demand. No one asks why people are so desperate that they are willing to run away with something they know is killing them. While it's a misattribution, there's the line from Churchill about cutting funding from the arts for the war effort, to which he supposedly said "Then what are we fighting for?" We can blame individual behavior all we want, when it's a handful of people. When it's whole sections of the population, we can blame pharmaceutical advertising or drug cartels or whoever, but we have to ask why the desperation and hopelessness exists?
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).
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.
Excellent episode. Other overlooked contributors to the problem include the role of federal regulators and congressional leaders letting the problem get so out of control. As a pharmacist working in the bio pharma industry for almost 25 years, this isn’t as recent a problem as people think. Purdue’s behaviors may not have been so damaging had they not been allowed to flourish almost unchecked by those responsible for oversight. Follow the money. One look at the dollars spent on lobbying over the years tells us they must have found their investment effective or they wouldn’t have continued to spend. The other hidden issue is that Medical schools have generally overlooked any sort of education or training in pain management. So when a doctor understandably wants to alleviate suffering, they often use the wrong option or prescribe pain medication to be taken in ways that promote addiction. So today, most physicians, PAs, and advance practice nurses are poorly equipped to effectively manage pain to begin with and the pharmaceutical misadventures are extremely common.
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.
@@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.
This epidemic is absolutely insane. I lost count of how many people i went to school, grew up, played sports or worked with that have passed away or are in some stage of addiction or recovery. We need to focus much more effort on talking to kids long before they ever get a chance to try this crap. This is the only way we’ll be successful.
@@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". ........
Xthe irony of America spending twenty years protecting and allowing the increased opium production in Afghanistan to near record levels now being upset about fentanyl.yet somehow when the Taliban retakes control opium production plummeted to negligible levels by comparison
I had a dose of Fentanyl in hospital. I was in great pain and very ill. It was a amazing. I felt great for a time. Morphine had taken the edge of the pain but no more than that. I refused further doses, precisely because I realised how addictive it would be.
@@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 😂
Fentanyl is actually very common in the OR. Because it is synthesized, under proper conditions it can be very precisely diluted and controlled. I was a tech working next to anesthesiologists, and it is commonly used during surgery. The problem in that statistic about it being xx% stronger than morphine is because it is a refined compound for use only in extremely controlled environments.
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.
@@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.
Great analysis, is there a way you could cite your sources in the same video card? Like in the corner like some other journalists do. Along with your logo. That way we can clip and share different parts of the video. I know you are already uploading it as is, but It would be amazing to add a citation list also. This work is in some sense academic. And anything worth claiming is worth citing. So a citation list in the descriptions with timestamps is ideal for this situation. Thanks again chris!
Yes ! Absolutely, before this video goes live I’ll add my sources . I also have my scripts available in a discord server that has all sources . I wasn’t sure if this was something that interested people . Good idea
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!
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
@@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
I'm Brazilian, we have a lot of problems here but thank god Fentanyl is not one of them. You've become one of my favorite YT channels and I think your service towards education on several topics is simply priceless. Thank you for analysis.
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''.
@@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.
As messed up as it sounds, the Chinese government does have a point. It is on us as Americans to fix the core of the problem. My mother is an EMT and has dealt with fentanyl and its terrifying, inaction isnt an option for the long-term health of the United States. Changing Fentanyl to Schedule 1 will not do enough if Marijuana is to be used as an example.
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?
@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 😂
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 UA-cam 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
"Винить других в своих неудача"? Само существование Китая по своей сути несёт беды для экономики любой страны что сотрудничает с Китаем. Однажды подружившись с Китаем, пройдёт немного времени, обернувшись ты увидишь как вся продукция вокруг произведена в Китае. Китай это как страна-наркотик для любой страны, потому что ей нужно чтобы её продукцию покупало как можно больше людей в других странах и для этого она ведёт теневую вредительскую экономическую программу в отношении внешних рынков, как пример, их автомобильное производство. Китай буквально ведёт захватническую экономическую деятельность как внутри так во внешних рынках. Китай - единственная страна в мире которая непрекрыто крайне нагло ворует чужие технологии и при этом без последствий. Задумайся
Rescheduling fentanyl to schedule 1 would have devastating consequences for emergency trauma treatment as it is the only opioid pain killer that does not drop blood pressure (important for someone who’s bleeding out). It’s a tremendously valuable drug in medicine. The only practical difference between schedule 1 and 2 drugs is the ability to use it medically and study it. Legally they carry the same consequences for illicit use/manufacturing/trafficking.
I'm always a fan, but this one video needs some comments: 1. Most of the painkillers shown by the 10:00 mark are neither opioids nor addictive. 2. USA is the only developed country that allows medicine ads targeted to the patients. That certainly factors in the epidemic. 3. We (the doctors) were quite well informed about the addictive potential of any opioid, Fentanyl was not different. Purdue and their ilk didn't mislead the doctors, but incentivized them to care more about their return than about patient safety. Saying 'no' to a person in pain is difficult. 4. "300 more common prescriptions" is pretty more than half of all of them. The WHO's "Essential Medicines List" has only 600 drugs. Keep up the good work, thanks!
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.
"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?
Extremely wise outlook on the fentanyl crisis. As a former addict (over 10 years ago), I am very glad I stopped using before that deadly crap got into the drug supplies. So many people die nowadays from fentanyl they don't even know is in the substance they purchased.
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? "
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.
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.
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.
Nice one man…I’m from INDIA and loved ur depth of knowledge about the topic..hoping to see u making more videos related to topics like war, history and politics 🎉
It's good to see others focusing on this issue, it means it's going mainstream and politicians will be forced to do something about the tens of thousands of Americans dying each year from what is essentially economic and chemical warfare.
@@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.
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.
Another great video, Cappy! This one and the one where you discuss the possibilities of US military intervention into the "War on Drugs" are very well done! The amount of thought that goes into them makes me believe that you are above average! IMHO, the best thing about your videos is that you don't "push your opinion". You clearly delineate your opinions from the facts that you gathered...from multiple viewpoints! They force the viewer to THINK!. Please keep them coming.
Personally, I'm surprised Israel hasn't accused Hamas of selling narcotics. There might be massive street protests going on but at least Americans can still unite in the joy of televised sports!
Great report. As a chronic pain sufferer it's a subject of more than average interest to me. One unfortunate side effect of the opioid epidemic is the government's decision to artificially inflate the cost of medically necessary pain management prescriptions. I take a number of prescriptions, many for non-pain related health problems. Despite my one opiate containing drug being generic and dirt cheap to manufacture, it is five times the price of my next most expensive medication. The epidemic is a horrific problem with a lot of moving parts. China, India,Mexico, and our lack of law enforcement are just a few contributors. Hopefully we somehow get a handle on it and stop the terrible cost in lives and so much more.
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.
Yet while this is going on, Chronic Pain patients are being denied palliative care on a catastrophic level. With Opioid-based pain medication amounts being reduced so dramatically since 2016, that the rate of self-deletion among Chronic Pain sufferers has increased SIX HUNDRED PERCENT. To add insult to injury, the media has painted legitimate CP Sufferers as little better than addicts.
@@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🤗
1. As an ex heroin user and on methadone today, i urge anyone that is using to stop. Even if it is through methadone. Which leads to 2. Getting off opiates was the hardest thing to do, it took me going to prison to stop. Even then i still relapsed, thats why im on methadone. But if shit hits the fan how are we going to protect our family and loved ones if we’re going through withdrawals? That’s something i have been thinking a lot about lately. I havent touched heroin in 4 years so if anyone needs help i will be glad to
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.
After doing criminal defense or being a deputy prosecutor for the last decade, I have had too much exposure to this, which has only gotten worse. From my experience, the users are careful if they know it’s fentanyl. The problem is that we are getting heroin and (more surprisingly) methamphetamine coming back from the lab with fentanyl in it. A user thinks they’re doing heroin or meth, and they overdose on fentanyl. Unless you can somehow get your illicit drugs tested before using them, it’s going to keep happening unfortunately.
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.
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
To be honest, China is right that US culture glorifies drugs, and have themselves to blame. China has overly strict bans on consuming drugs, so that people just don't want to do anything with them.
Right over there drug addicts get the death penalty 😂😂😂 This is unreal to see all these comments supporting China 😂 They too have serious issues with drug use the state just doesn’t report it and like I said they kill drug users and dealers 😂😂😂 All this talk about compassion for the addict 😂 that’s what compassion for the addict looks like in China
@@VyarkX I mean, I know there's the small possibility of framing your worst enemy with drugs to destroy his/her life. But in the overall picture, strict drug laws would very much limit its existence and usage.
True that drug used was a scourge on the Chinese population and foreign imperial powers were supplying the demand. But same as today with the U.S., we have to ask ourselves, why are Americans turning to drugs, and how much of our tax funded budgetary Dollars should be dedicated to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, with the goal of reinstating survivors into a beneficial role to society.
Problem is that resolving those issues require long term planning and we have a government system that rewards short term because the voter bases want the problems solved now and during the elected officials time. But 4 years isn’t enough to do it and who ever is next could undo all progress or even take credit for it like Hitler taking credit for policies set during the Weimar Republic that helped with the economy before he was elected.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse,.. all Drug Overdoses by recent years were: 2021 = 107,000 .... 2022 = 109,000 .. 2023 = 111,000 .... by those numbers (divided by entire US population).. overdoses only account for roughly 0.000321 of total population. It's a tragic epidemic because it's spiking upwards so quickly.. but in the grand scheme of things, it's not even a fraction of 1%. (not saying that to downplay or minimize anyones loss of loved ones,.. but it's just a realistic look at the numbers).
Today makes exactly 11 years clean and sober. If you want to make a huge difference in the opioid epidemic, make treatment accessible and affordable to everyone who struggles with addiction, including the dealers and mandate some kind of job training programs.
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.
My first time seeing a video on this channel and I'm definitely subscribing. I love how you brought up all the easiest arguments, explained them away, and then clearly put together the series of events that's causing this problem.
America: "Is not ok blame fast food companies for fat people or gun companies for mass shottings but is ok blame producers and distributors for drug addiction problems."
Yea cause unlike food or guns drugs are illegal in America and by law we should prosecute law breakers. Also if you are fat that’s by choice just like taking drugs are a choice.
You need food to survive, leave food out of it. But, Gun companies are in fact just the same greedy pieces of shit as these Chineese drug labs. They know their product kills people and they don't care.
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
Your content is amazing! I think you misspelled parallel in one of your screenshots. I know you care about quality content that is why I am calling your attention to that.
From Europe to me, It seems it is not about Fentanyl itself but about demand. No matter how we name the actual substance, or is it made in US, Columbia, Afghanistan, China or elsewhere. It is from one point the demand on drugs, and the other the demand on the drug provider's money. I believe we can agree on these money finds their way back to economies, even into US economy. Till both of these demand exists, talking about "historical revenge" is just good for pushing the responsibility to somebody else and keeping today's status quo as it is: where drugs are provided for people, and the wealth is circulated back to the economy where the drug billions are welcome. I do not meant to hurt people whose lost their beloved ones by any of these chemicals; I cannot fathom how hard it can be for them. I just wanted to point out that to me it seems the game is/was always the same, what I see changing is some players and the strength of the actual substances. But it is just my personal opinion, I am curious how do you see that. So, just in short: The good question is not whether it is China or Heroin or Fentanyl, but why the demand is so high and why is it allowed to hide the source of wealth and let back in the economy.
Because they keep banning drugs and people try finding new ways to get high so they invent new drug to get high on which is often worse then last one. It’s wack in mole game which is this entire video is trash . Doesn’t even. Talk about legalizing drugs .
ultimately a useless point, that there is demand is an entirely different issue. Fentanyl as reported in the video is responsible for 70% of the deaths. And if there wasnt fentanyl it would be 0% of deaths. Demand for drugs is irrelevant in this respect.
This is absolutely fabulous. You are a great journalist. I can't thank you enough for this and I really want you to know how well done it is. Please release it as soon as you can the world needs to know
First Opium War: 200,000 Chinese "soldiers" on paper vs. 20,000 top quality British soldiers. However, in actual combat the Chinese were not only outclassed but also often outnumbered since they couldn't move troops quickly. The most difficult fight the British had was against local village militias that caught them in rural wetlands. British strengths in the 1800s need not be explained further; we all are familiar. Chinese weakness was compounded by a multitude of factors: 1. Great Long Peace weathered away Early Qing military capabilities and war mentality. Many cannons weren't even maintained (not that they stood a chance if they were). Many battles were just British taking pot shots against Chinese ships and forts, which offered little, if any, counterfire 2. Lack of cohesion exemplified by imperial, provincial, militia, afar, and local units being unable or unwilling to provide mutual support 3. Reduction of standards meant to pass once tough military and civil examinations was easier. The Qing didn't place the best to their posts 4. Opium addiction 5. Overall corruption. After Qianlong, the Qing walked a slow path towards decay and death 6. Poor logistics. It was harder to march supplies on the road than for the British who were like early-US with supercarriers and naval bases everywhere. Chinese troops camped in Canton were rationed raw eggplants 7. An Empire nearing its Twilight (like Rome in its final days) vs. an energetic risen power at its Peak. What would happen? 8. Lacking willpower and lying to the Emperor. This happened even during the Imjin War. The Emperor demands victory. The generals had a "meh" attitude. While the British won, the effects of the war on China was like a sleeping elephant (or dragon) getting stung by a wasp. It took many more to finally whittle down the Qing. In wars where the Qing from Emperor down to the generals took seriously and went ham, they really, really went ham. They beat France on land (lost at sea) in Vietnam and buffed Russia into a submissive stance
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.
@@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.
Great clip, Cappy! I don’t consider the fentanyl crisis as “payback”, it’s more like a “pay off”-its so profitable to trade in those precursors it’s impossible to refuse doing business with bad actors. I believe this fentanyl will get out of control. The lethal dosage is so tiny, it’s almost like a nerve agent in bio-weapons. This crisis will lead to mission creep for military to crack down on Mexico’s gangs making the drug. Ever seen the “Sicario” movies? They’re an example of the slippery slope of increasing military intervention to stop drug cartels. And talk about life imitating art, when those nine members of a community living south of the border were mistakenly shot up by gang members, President Trump called the President of Mexico and threatened a military intervention by labeling drug cartels as terrorists considering Mexico is close to failed state status. I can’t wait for the third “Sicario” movie to come out (and Emily Blunt has gotta be in it!). Even now, according by to Wall Street Journal, drug cartels are sensing the heat and cracking down on their own people to stop making fentanyl for two reasons: Prevent U.S. military intervention and diminishing the market by killing off your customers/users. This subject deserves a follow-up, Cappy. Keep up the good work! Hey, do a clip on failed states and how they churn out more trouble to surrounding countries! Or maybe expand on an article in the Economist about Paul Kagame ruling Rwanda and using his army as Ambassadors with Force… he reminds me of Colonel Alois Hammer in the “Hammer’s Slammers” series by David Drake.
I think it's a little from column A and a little from column B. I mean, it's not like the Chinese government is hurting for cash at the moment and they have the resources and the will to crush any and all manufacturers if they so wished. Don't hate the player... I guess?
Wait so American is not a failed state the daily school and mass shootings are normal wow I didnt know that and the drug addicts that keep buying the drugs what problems do they cause for enabling a drug lord from the south to get in the business?
This has always confused me, being a non American with limited knowledge about the subject. It just never seemed to make sense to me, for the cartels to introduce a drug as deadly as fentanyl to the market, let alone to allow dealers to 'taint' other drugs with it. The consequences were rather foreseeable, I would say. Killing your customer base and forcing more law enforcement/military involvement, because of how bad things were bound to get, when they were already making a shitton of money with existing drugs, seemed like such a bad longterm strategy.
@@raraavis7782 hahaha, slow down with your logical and rational thinking! That’s not how the world works! It’s all about short term money and power who cares where it leads… I’m sarcastic obviously but when you look at what governments, cartels, and corporations do, I’m not wrong haha. No long term thinking. You should run for office. Or start a cartel. You got a better brain than most lol
Nobody is forcing people to become drug addicts. Its 100% self inflicted. People need to take responsibility for their own actions. Its so much easier to blame others instead of taking charge of your own life.
Though it can be said that China supplying fentanyl is a major problem but glorification of drugs in US society is as much to blame. Stop glorifying drugs it causes problems throughout the globe. As American culture spreads far.
I’m impressed about how much good information and historical background you laid out in this video. One thing I will add, for whatever value it may be is that Max Boot (love or hate his work) pointed out that the US was less in China due to economic investment but rather to keep an eye on the British, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. We weren’t the military, economic or political powerhouse we later became. But anyway, the PRC telegraphed their punches when “Unrestricted Warfare” was published in the late 90s.
Max Boot 😂😂😂 You mean the war criminal Max Boot 😂 he has zero credibility except among those who still read the New York Times😂 Between Iraq and Afghanistan and the 2016 election how does he still get work? 😂 If your car mechanic was as wrong as he has been with his prognoses he wouldn’t have a job, but for these party insiders and political hacks they just keeping floating along likes logs of dump
Im sorry for your loss buy no one made the choice except for your loved one. No one forced anything upon her. So please change your perspective because if Americans werent the biggest drug users and the government wasn’t corrupt stealing our freedoms and opportunities we wouldn’t be in this position.
The US has a serious drug problem. America's drug problem has massive impacts on other countries like Mexico and Columbia in which gets funded by US drug money and ends using US weapons.
@@Paper.Power.Politics probably doesn't help that doing drugs in this country is cool. The most successful rappers in this country name themselves after drugs, and the sole reason to go to raves or music festivals is to do drugs. In the US, you get rich promoting or selling drugs. In China, you get the death penalty and be culturally shunned. The USA could never peddle drugs in China because it wouldn't sell on a mass scale.
@@Paper.Power.Politics Try to understand how responsibility works before telling others to change their perspectives. I'm frankly tired of having to spell this out to people so I'll give you the short version: Responsibility doesn't magically stop as soon as other people's choices are involved. You can and should be held responsible for the results of your decisions, the predictable ones at least. If you sell or fund a bunch of drugs, you do so knowing that your actions will cause harm. The fact that people choose to use those drugs isn't some magical get out of jail free card, that's simply not how responsibility works, two people can be responsible for something. It's not a game of hot potato, that's a naïve and dangerous way of looking at responsibility. You also have no idea what choices this person made, you're just making assumptions. About someone who has died. While responding to their grieving loved one. Try to have *some* judgement.
Sad to hear of the supply chain. I - myself have had Fentanyl (3) times in my life administered after surgery. You never want to have that pain. EVER. On my first instance, I had to go for full EKG, blood tests before surgery. The other two, I'd rather just remembering waking up in EXTREME pain, a nurse was above - they say "we gottca you" They introduce your IV bag in a needle form before the full bag. It hits you in only like 10 seconds. Honestly, I felt my body rise up off the table and start to split up into chunks is about what I can think of. Never, have I wanted to experience that again. There are medical usage for this, like shotgun victims etc. but keep it off the streets. It can kill you.
I was perscribed Fent for 7 herniated discs. A large pharmacy gave me the wrong dose ( 3 x strength ) and i almost lost my life. That stuff is no joke. Very thin line bdtween therapeutic and death
I was given fetanyl after a surgery and it was the scariest experience I've had, full loss of my body, feeling of floating ec.t The feeling of losing my ability to move my body is probably the worst.
I was on the Fentanyl patch, and a HUGE amount was 100 mcg for 2 herniated cervical disks, they never should have put me on fentanyl or that high of a dose. My issue was the lack of support offered by the medical community. I had moved and the new doctor refused to prescribe pain meds, which put me into severe withdrawals. I was ready to just buy some heroin off the street, but luckily I instead found a methadone clinic, else I am sure I'd be dead by now. I couldn't believe how after putting me on such a horrible and addicting medication, the medical community was just like.. now you stop, have fun... no taper, nothing, I was left to fend for myself after they had gotten me addicted. This is also a common story, but many just start buying it off the streets instead of finding treatment
@@HicSvntDracones Docs are a big part of the problem. After they get you hooked, they wash their hands of you because you're an "addict" and don't even bother to follow CDC guidelines on treatment of addiction.
4 years sober ❤🎉😊 the best thing ive done for myself was take myself to an outpatient clinic . Fight like hell to survive because the " percocets" were actually majority fentanyl. Over the last 4 years, things have gotten brutal. i truly believe I wouldn't be here had i not got clean. Life is night and day different i am happy and healthy and free! Anyone can do it i believe in you!
"Precursor chemicals" If you bought fertilizer and built a bomb and maimed yourself would it be the feritlizer dealer that's to blame? Same thing applies here
Ridiculous. You clearly have no knowledge of organic chemistry or you'd understand it's nothing like selling fertiliser. More like someone selling you a bomb casing, detonator and enriched uranium.
WOW! Where do you get all this? You make my brain hurt. When I first started following your channel you were basically an infantry tech guy, now you are as varied an area of coverage as I can find. Now I have to watch your videos at least twice. Thank you and your people for all the hard work and my headaches.
As an opinion writer in Scientific American pointed out, the DEA did the worst thing they could have done. For them, it was a crisis to profit from; argue for further hiring and draconian new regulations. If they had slowly reduced the amount of safe pain killers and allowed doctors to be doctors, the poison of fentanyl never would have appeared on U.S. streets.
Some emergency doc had to inject me Fentanyl (0.10ml i think) i never felt more under the influence of anything before in my life. I tried some shit. But this was different. I understand every addict. The feeling you get is just wow... Even while your in pain from an car accident. I hope you guys find the strength to fight trough this Chrisis!
Doctors just give fentanyl in the US? Maybe focus less on China and more on the doctors? What the fuck? For context, Dutch doctors will give you an asprin and tell you to sleep it off if you're in pain.
The best healing conditions for addicts and mental health is a stress free place in nature with sharing stories ,exercise ,good food ,breathing ,relaxation and bathing ...
That's a really high quality overview! However, I think it misses two key factors: US work culture and US healthcare. The reason a lot of people get hooked on opioids - especially in physical jobs - is that they are pressured to push themselves too hard and hurt their back. At this point, instead of taking a couple of weeks and some physiotherapy to recover, they go to the doctor to get something that would allow them to work the next day, get opioids, which allow them to keep going while the underlying health issue is getting worse. At this point they can't really stop taking it to remain working, and keep taking it, developing an addiction. Once they loose their job - and hence coverage - or get cut off - or realize that the street stuff works just as good and is heaps cheaper than the one they are getting from pharmacy (even with they insurance) - they are inside the loop. This culture "I have to be back at work tomorrow" is much worse in the military - even among veterans - making them so much more susceptible to entering the cycle. But that, unfortunately, is a much bigger and harder problem to address.
It's also a loss of hope. Saw a video of a vet who was about to commit suicide, and was pleading with the officer not to get an ambulance because he couldn't afford it.The barrier of entry to work towards a better life has been getting higher and higher. Although that particular incident was not drug related afaik, I think more people are choosing drugs as a way to cope, and another mechanism for suicide.
Opioids for treating back pain is about as absurd as an amputation of a leg for a scratch - it's not a failure of work culture, it's a failure of gross incompetence in the medical system on a very basic level. So much for having most of medical research in the world being done in US, when the resulting healthcare is completely insane and serves pharma profits instead of public health.
Spot on reply. Drug addiction is mostly a healthcare and poverty issue. Most Americans need to understand that people who abuse these substances are out of despair, and not solely because of the supply. There’s been plenty of studies with animals where they would never touch a drug if they are an environment that is fulfilling. I’ve met people who’ve told me they started drinking because of the stress at work and i would blame them for the lack of discipline. I also started drinking for the same reason as i got older and i regret being so callous to them. The war on drugs has been a complete disaster and many lives have been ruined because it.
I think China also has this issue about work culture and healthcare. No way their healthcare or work culture is better than the USA. I wonder why Fentanyl is not as a big an issue in their country.
@@randomyoutubebrowser5217 China definitely has its issues. I'm not expert, but I know there is not a lot of crime or homelessness there. That could be a big reason why, despite whatever hardships they have, do not have such a large drug epidemic as America has. In America, if you're down and out, you're on your own. If you couldn't find a way to make it in this capitalist nation, that's your fault.
@@Lomi311right being addicted to a drug doesn’t make you a bad person. Stealing, lying, cheating, scheming and being an all around pain in the ass does make you a bad person. This is the real world you don’t get to act like an a$$hole and be like “yea but I was on drugs so all those things don’t count I’m a good person” “I know I just stole like $500 dollars from you and lied to you about it but just because I’m a drug addict doesn’t make me a bad person” You’re not doing any addicts any favors
Until we start to work on the addiction side, it will only get worse. We have been fighting another loosing war on drugs for over 40 years, and we are nowhere near the end. Have you ever wondered why is it that all law enforcement agencies will fight to fund addiction prevention programs, but keep asking for more money for a loosing war?
It’s because of a stupid ancient belief that Reagan thought he was a messiah on, the drug war. We need to stop treating addicts badly and change the way we view things so that treatment can be a much easier process than it is. So many incredible videos on this that prove that it’s the way that treatment is handled which gets to the root of the issue, so many European countries have succeeded while we are stuck treating things like we did in the 1980’s lol
Great video our harsh reality. Thank you for including Lil Peep. I appreciate that it’s sad to say like back then compared to now there is no comparison. It’s just worse like he predicted.🇺🇸💯✨👑🐠
7 million people died from covid in 2-3 years with 1.2m dead in 3 years in the US alone 100K people died from drug overdoses in the US and we make up over 70% of the worlds overdoses. Clearly the numbers dont play out that this is the "real pandemic" A this is mostly a US issue.... pan = global B. the annual death rate in the US of covid was far higher than all drug overdoses in the US in any year
Altogether now say, Trojan horse and history repeats itself.Super great job I don’t subscribe often, but I like your logic. We thank you for your service Peace
A few years ago I was offered Fentanyl at the kilogram level from Chinese chemical companies. Completely insane! Didn't accept, obviously, despite ridiculously low prices 😅
Yep, I deal with Chinese chemical companies for legal laboratory reagents and after 3 or 4 emails about a quarter of them will offer a long list of drugs.
T&P I love the channel, but I cant even stomach to watch this one...as a chronic pain sufferer myself whos been turnt to the street by my doctors and lost friends going through the same, this just infuriates me to no end. Im in medical recovery now, I just wish my friends had had the same chance. Cheers from Texas!
As an Australian the opioid mess in America is 100% prove that government controlled not for profit medical system is essential for a country. Im 40 years old I have never seen an add for opioid pain killers. trying to even get a prescription like that from a doctor in Australia would be extremely hard and it's because the doctors have no profit incentive to push them.
@@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.
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.
I’m American and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a direct to consumer advertisement for opioid drugs either. As someone who has had trouble with the stuff in the past - I am fairly certain I’d notice.
Even in Korea Fentanyl is problem. It shocked me when one man was found dead inside the bathroom of my hometown's metro station. My town is relatably small, and residents are mostly middle classed people with kids. Drug problem increased 5 times more since 2020.
I am 8 months clean off a ten year heroin addiction. If you have any questions about opiates I am pretty sure I am an expert on the subject. Edit: Cappy you knocked it out the park with this one. Most accurate video I have seen on drugs by a non addict in a while. IMHO I don't think Chinas intention at the beginning was to hurt us then even if it is now. I have messed with research chemicals since 2008 when they were made in the US. When China started being the only source I used to chat with the girl that spoke English at one of these labs on FB. On the low end some Chinese might know what's going on but for most of them it's just their day job.
Good luck on your journey! Of course some poor Chinese person working in the ChungXiBao chemical factory doesn't give a $#!/ about you, one-way or the other.
They give more of a shit than the government. They know that if you won't buy from them, then someone else will source it, and will probably source a less clean/more deadly version too. Eliminating the supply doesn't eliminate the demand. @@Metapharsical
Hey brother, I'm 9 years clean off Meth, Fentanyl, PCP, morphine, cocaine, Flakka, several other opioids and stimulants, hallucinogens, and miss-use chemicals. Good for you, stay clean. For anyone else struggling, I was one of the worst use cases, you can get there, start at a day, the day becomes the month, the month becomes the year, the year becomes the decade. Most importantly, reach out to people, you're not alone. If you get shut off, reach else where, pursue avenues of common ground, you'll find others.
This is absolutely Chinese foreign policy now as they have been informed about this issue at every diplomatic meeting since Obama. No, he totally swung and missed on a great opportunity.
The Fentanyl comes into northwestern Florida, in or around Piney Island. I believe the Sea Aye Ay also has docks, a crane or two, some earth movers, and a facility nearby.
I've personally lost friends to the Fentanyl crisis the effect its had on my country is awful and on full display on the streets of NYC and San Fran. To what extent has China contributed to the problem? Or is the crisis more the fault of the United States' hyper glorification of drugs and lax anti-drug laws? Follow for Updates on the Fentanyl War: instagram.com/cappyarmy/
Lax anti-drug laws? People (especially black people) be getting 15 years for 2 joints of weed's worth.
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
@@pyeitme508😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
China: "This is payback for the opium wars"
The British: "Americans suffer for our misdeeds, lol."
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
America is one of only two countries that allow the advertising of drugs on tv and the reason the crisis exists is almost 100% due to the legal pharmaceutical companies, not the drug cartels.
The amount of Americans in jail for possession of weed is incredible, while the lack of pharmaceutical company owners and executives not in jail is appalling.
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.
As a former addict myself the US is tackling this crisis along with just about every other illicit drug problem in the wrong . They keep trying to stop the supply instead of the demand. You stop one supplier another pops up. But if no buyers come, then no suppliers pop up. The opioid crisis is a mental health crisis, depression and anxiety are on the rise. Solve why so many people in the US are miserable and the drug epidemic will resolve itself.
Edit: 1.
My point isn’t instead of ending the supply let’s end mental illness. That’ll be a similar up hill battle with no end in sight. My point is don’t treat addicts like criminals, treat them for what they are people who are sick and need treatment.
2. The drug war which has focused on ending the supply of drugs for the last 40 years has been without a doubt a failure. Continuing to do so will only be a waste of recourses.
3. For those who aren’t convinced that’s fair you have a right to voice your disagreement, but instead of calling me crazy feel free to offer your own solution to the problem.
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've been a heavy drug user since I was a teenager. I'm 59. I got sober about 10 years ago. Back when I got started drugs were "safe". You knew what you were getting most of the time and the stuff was real and it was fairly high quality. By the mid 90s things started going down hill for street drugs. They were putting a lot of weird shit in coke and heroin and meth. Pills were just starting to take off. These days you're lucky to survive partying one night with some friends. "Getting high" isn't what it used to be. Just stick to some weed and alcohol if you have to get high. I would quit entirely. Being sober is the best.
Dealers mix shit into weed too like meth etc
I was dabbling in cocaine heavy from 2015-2019 after I graduated high school.. after the fentanyl crisis took off during the pandemic in 2020 I said “enough is ENOUGH” with HARD drugs and I never looked back.. Fentanyl is killing EVERYONE and not just addicts.. normal people are also dying from this deadly drug as well.. people who never usually take substances who just do something during a party on the weekend or night club visit every once in a while are dying as well after taking fentanyl laced drugs and pills too.. it’s truly scary man!!
@@claudiamartinez2693well in my state i can just get it at a dispensary. america seems to be heading that way. In 15 years itll prolly be sold like alcohol is
The fact so many people take drugs for anything but their intended purposes just shows you how lost we all collectively are. We’re just trying to escape this insane world we live in
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.
Getting off the stuff is just frustrating honestly, the biggest most annoying symptom is restless legs and not being able to sleep or get comfortable because I just cut cold Turkey, but to be clean is only two weeks, it felt like years for me but once sober I realized how much I was just tripping myself out and it genuinely wasn’t that bad, I just couldn’t get comfortable and was sweaty and gross, just like I was when I had a chest infection a year prior to addiction.
If you’re struggling, and you’re going through this and getting off, you can do it. It really is just a terrible, terrible cold. Hold as still as humanly possible (I chose a coffin style position on my back or stomach, palms flat to the surface I was laying on) and a hot bath REALLY helps the restlessness enough to sleep for an hour or two. Once you’re over that first few days, you’re on the mend. It’s half the mental battle, and you can do it, people are proud of you, you are not a failure because you are sick and you are valued, sick or not.
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!
After a decade of on/off homelessness and being in and out of treatment centers, I was finally able to get my shit together with medical intervention. My heart aches for those out there still suffering, man. It’s one of the hardest things a person can endure.
Huge congratulations brother
Glad you are winning the battle, super congratz!
Well doen.
Respect.
@franktothemax Well done! 💪
I enjoyed the very informative video. Thank you for this important timely information.
As a recovering addict 10 years sober I can tell you this is no joke. I am so happy I stopped and got clean or I'd be laying next to my baby sis and good friend that didn't have the help they needed. Still wake up from time to time in a cold sweat. But my ability to fight all urges and learn from my past failures, knowing what will happen if I even have an alcoholic drink, stops me in my tracks. But mostly, its knowing my little sister was in a hotel room alone, crying, in constant mental turmoil, and pain 1,000 miles away from her protector. That FAILURE as a big brother, keeps me in line. Killing me inside. And that's enough right there.......
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. 💛
I have spoken to many 'former' heroin addicts and every single one said, 'There is no such thing as heroin anymore, it's all fentanyl'
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?
Sad thing is, if China opened up those companies to american investors, the political support for doing anything about it would vanish. As soon as you allow wealthy americans to get a cut of something, it loses the moral panic and becomes godly.
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.
Thank you for shedding light on the reality of this crisis.
No one talks about why opium then and fenty now is so in demand. No one asks why people are so desperate that they are willing to run away with something they know is killing them.
While it's a misattribution, there's the line from Churchill about cutting funding from the arts for the war effort, to which he supposedly said "Then what are we fighting for?"
We can blame individual behavior all we want, when it's a handful of people. When it's whole sections of the population, we can blame pharmaceutical advertising or drug cartels or whoever, but we have to ask why the desperation and hopelessness exists?
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
Excellent episode. Other overlooked contributors to the problem include the role of federal regulators and congressional leaders letting the problem get so out of control. As a pharmacist working in the bio pharma industry for almost 25 years, this isn’t as recent a problem as people think. Purdue’s behaviors may not have been so damaging had they not been allowed to flourish almost unchecked by those responsible for oversight. Follow the money. One look at the dollars spent on lobbying over the years tells us they must have found their investment effective or they wouldn’t have continued to spend.
The other hidden issue is that Medical schools have generally overlooked any sort of education or training in pain management. So when a doctor understandably wants to alleviate suffering, they often use the wrong option or prescribe pain medication to be taken in ways that promote addiction. So today, most physicians, PAs, and advance practice nurses are poorly equipped to effectively manage pain to begin with and the pharmaceutical misadventures are extremely common.
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.
This epidemic is absolutely insane. I lost count of how many people i went to school, grew up, played sports or worked with that have passed away or are in some stage of addiction or recovery. We need to focus much more effort on talking to kids long before they ever get a chance to try this crap. This is the only way we’ll be successful.
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". ........
Xthe irony of America spending twenty years protecting and allowing the increased opium production in Afghanistan to near record levels now being upset about fentanyl.yet somehow when the Taliban retakes control opium production plummeted to negligible levels by comparison
What our government does is not the American people.
they were there to topple leaders not burn crops
I had a dose of Fentanyl in hospital. I was in great pain and very ill. It was a amazing. I felt great for a time. Morphine had taken the edge of the pain but no more than that. I refused further doses, precisely because I realised how addictive it would be.
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 🤷
Fentanyl is actually very common in the OR. Because it is synthesized, under proper conditions it can be very precisely diluted and controlled. I was a tech working next to anesthesiologists, and it is commonly used during surgery. The problem in that statistic about it being xx% stronger than morphine is because it is a refined compound for use only in extremely controlled environments.
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.
Great analysis, is there a way you could cite your sources in the same video card? Like in the corner like some other journalists do. Along with your logo. That way we can clip and share different parts of the video. I know you are already uploading it as is, but It would be amazing to add a citation list also. This work is in some sense academic. And anything worth claiming is worth citing. So a citation list in the descriptions with timestamps is ideal for this situation. Thanks again chris!
Yes ! Absolutely, before this video goes live I’ll add my sources . I also have my scripts available in a discord server that has all sources . I wasn’t sure if this was something that interested people . Good idea
@@Taskandpurpose thanks again, citations are incredibly helpful always. also could I get the discord link?
This is the best, most accurate, description of the history and current crisis in the (losing) U.S. war on drugs.
Our pharmaceutical companies and doctors should be ashamed of themselves.
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!
China isn't wrong about our culture being obsessed with drugs.
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
I'm Brazilian, we have a lot of problems here but thank god Fentanyl is not one of them. You've become one of my favorite YT channels and I think your service towards education on several topics is simply priceless. Thank you for analysis.
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.
Wow, this is incredible! Great video!
As an ex-drug addicted I never blame anybody else for my addiction but myself 😮
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.
As messed up as it sounds, the Chinese government does have a point. It is on us as Americans to fix the core of the problem. My mother is an EMT and has dealt with fentanyl and its terrifying, inaction isnt an option for the long-term health of the United States. Changing Fentanyl to Schedule 1 will not do enough if Marijuana is to be used as an example.
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 😂
The blame game. If you can't handle the problem find someone to blame. That's American Government Policy
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 UA-cam 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
Stop blaming others for your failure. Turn up the radio and all you hear is about popping pills and you wonder why people on that now?
"Винить других в своих неудача"? Само существование Китая по своей сути несёт беды для экономики любой страны что сотрудничает с Китаем. Однажды подружившись с Китаем, пройдёт немного времени, обернувшись ты увидишь как вся продукция вокруг произведена в Китае. Китай это как страна-наркотик для любой страны, потому что ей нужно чтобы её продукцию покупало как можно больше людей в других странах и для этого она ведёт теневую вредительскую экономическую программу в отношении внешних рынков, как пример, их автомобильное производство. Китай буквально ведёт захватническую экономическую деятельность как внутри так во внешних рынках. Китай - единственная страна в мире которая непрекрыто крайне нагло ворует чужие технологии и при этом без последствий. Задумайся
A culture so dysfunctional and unstable that citizens will risk death by consuming street drugs to escape .
@@rutuberfiremon7883let me guess, you’re angry that Russia is a province of China
Rescheduling fentanyl to schedule 1 would have devastating consequences for emergency trauma treatment as it is the only opioid pain killer that does not drop blood pressure (important for someone who’s bleeding out). It’s a tremendously valuable drug in medicine. The only practical difference between schedule 1 and 2 drugs is the ability to use it medically and study it. Legally they carry the same consequences for illicit use/manufacturing/trafficking.
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.
I'm always a fan, but this one video needs some comments:
1. Most of the painkillers shown by the 10:00 mark are neither opioids nor addictive.
2. USA is the only developed country that allows medicine ads targeted to the patients. That certainly factors in the epidemic.
3. We (the doctors) were quite well informed about the addictive potential of any opioid, Fentanyl was not different. Purdue and their ilk didn't mislead the doctors, but incentivized them to care more about their return than about patient safety. Saying 'no' to a person in pain is difficult.
4. "300 more common prescriptions" is pretty more than half of all of them. The WHO's "Essential Medicines List" has only 600 drugs.
Keep up the good work, thanks!
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?
Extremely wise outlook on the fentanyl crisis. As a former addict (over 10 years ago), I am very glad I stopped using before that deadly crap got into the drug supplies. So many people die nowadays from fentanyl they don't even know is in the substance they purchased.
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...
Fascinating. Well presented and put into context. Thanks 👍
This is a different subject that you normally don’t dive into. Thanks for keeping it fresh T&P ❤
Geopolitics is not a different subject.
@@BattleBrotherCasten 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
If the Chinese can't control the companies making and exporting the pre cursor chemicals why do we not see the fentanyl epidemic in SE Asia, Africa ?
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
My cousin recently passed away from this poison… it’s no joke
Same here.
😂
skill issue
Nice one man…I’m from INDIA and loved ur depth of knowledge about the topic..hoping to see u making more videos related to topics like war, history and politics 🎉
It's good to see others focusing on this issue, it means it's going mainstream and politicians will be forced to do something about the tens of thousands of Americans dying each year from what is essentially economic and chemical warfare.
>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.
Another great video, Cappy! This one and the one where you discuss the possibilities of US military intervention into the "War on Drugs" are very well done! The amount of thought that goes into them makes me believe that you are above average! IMHO, the best thing about your videos is that you don't "push your opinion". You clearly delineate your opinions from the facts that you gathered...from multiple viewpoints! They force the viewer to THINK!. Please keep them coming.
Personally, I'm surprised Israel hasn't accused Hamas of selling narcotics. There might be massive street protests going on but at least Americans can still unite in the joy of televised sports!
Lol, if he had mentioned all those chinese companies were owned by americans it might have been somewhat honest. This is pure Murican propaganda.
@@luislongoria6621 Hamas is too busy dealing death via HE to bother with drugs
Great report. As a chronic pain sufferer it's a subject of more than average interest to me. One unfortunate side effect of the opioid epidemic is the government's decision to artificially inflate the cost of medically necessary pain management prescriptions. I take a number of prescriptions, many for non-pain related health problems. Despite my one opiate containing drug being generic and dirt cheap to manufacture, it is five times the price of my next most expensive medication. The epidemic is a horrific problem with a lot of moving parts. China, India,Mexico, and our lack of law enforcement are just a few contributors. Hopefully we somehow get a handle on it and stop the terrible cost in lives and so much more.
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.
Here's one for the algorithm! Good job on the video, and God Bless!
Yet while this is going on, Chronic Pain patients are being denied palliative care on a catastrophic level. With Opioid-based pain medication amounts being reduced so dramatically since 2016, that the rate of self-deletion among Chronic Pain sufferers has increased SIX HUNDRED PERCENT.
To add insult to injury, the media has painted legitimate CP Sufferers as little better than addicts.
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🤗
This is actually one of the best channels on this site. Top quality research every single time. Thanks.
1. As an ex heroin user and on methadone today, i urge anyone that is using to stop. Even if it is through methadone. Which leads to 2. Getting off opiates was the hardest thing to do, it took me going to prison to stop. Even then i still relapsed, thats why im on methadone. But if shit hits the fan how are we going to protect our family and loved ones if we’re going through withdrawals? That’s something i have been thinking a lot about lately. I havent touched heroin in 4 years so if anyone needs help i will be glad to
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.
My MD neighbor was in need of pain relief and took Fentinyl and died of overdose.
After doing criminal defense or being a deputy prosecutor for the last decade, I have had too much exposure to this, which has only gotten worse. From my experience, the users are careful if they know it’s fentanyl. The problem is that we are getting heroin and (more surprisingly) methamphetamine coming back from the lab with fentanyl in it. A user thinks they’re doing heroin or meth, and they overdose on fentanyl. Unless you can somehow get your illicit drugs tested before using them, it’s going to keep happening unfortunately.
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
This problem is one in which so many people have to suffer. A chronic pain patient all my life, I cannot even have my migraine medicine anymore.
To be honest, China is right that US culture glorifies drugs, and have themselves to blame. China has overly strict bans on consuming drugs, so that people just don't want to do anything with them.
Right over there drug addicts get the death penalty 😂😂😂
This is unreal to see all these comments supporting China 😂
They too have serious issues with drug use the state just doesn’t report it and like I said they kill drug users and dealers 😂😂😂
All this talk about compassion for the addict 😂 that’s what compassion for the addict looks like in China
Afaik under chinese law the punishment for trafficking of drugs over a certain amount (not a very large amount) is just straight up death
cos they literally got slapped up after not losing for hundreds of years because all their people were addicted to opium
Meth is a huge problem in China. They won't talk about it though...
@@VyarkX I mean, I know there's the small possibility of framing your worst enemy with drugs to destroy his/her life. But in the overall picture, strict drug laws would very much limit its existence and usage.
Yay! I refound this channel after discovering and seeing a video and not being signed in or something. Subscribed!
Congratulations
My son's best friend has been in a medically induced coma for over a year. He is only 17, took a X pill laced with Fentanyl.
? Bullshit
I’m a fentanyl addict this is just horse shit 😂
This was an excellent episode and explained a lot.
Thank you so much to Task & Purpose for videos of this type.
Excellent report! I've been wondering about the dynamics of this problem and you delivered a balanced, succinct video. Thanks.
True that drug used was a scourge on the Chinese population and foreign imperial powers were supplying the demand. But same as today with the U.S., we have to ask ourselves, why are Americans turning to drugs, and how much of our tax funded budgetary Dollars should be dedicated to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, with the goal of reinstating survivors into a beneficial role to society.
It's politically easier to blame other countries though
Problem is that resolving those issues require long term planning and we have a government system that rewards short term because the voter bases want the problems solved now and during the elected officials time. But 4 years isn’t enough to do it and who ever is next could undo all progress or even take credit for it like Hitler taking credit for policies set during the Weimar Republic that helped with the economy before he was elected.
@@kenjethao7774 yeah i use to envy Americans but not anymore
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse,.. all Drug Overdoses by recent years were: 2021 = 107,000 .... 2022 = 109,000 .. 2023 = 111,000 .... by those numbers (divided by entire US population).. overdoses only account for roughly 0.000321 of total population. It's a tragic epidemic because it's spiking upwards so quickly.. but in the grand scheme of things, it's not even a fraction of 1%. (not saying that to downplay or minimize anyones loss of loved ones,.. but it's just a realistic look at the numbers).
"we need to keep unemployment higher to manage consumer demand" -fed reserve chair, Jerome Powell
Today makes exactly 11 years clean and sober. If you want to make a huge difference in the opioid epidemic, make treatment accessible and affordable to everyone who struggles with addiction, including the dealers and mandate some kind of job training programs.
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.
My first time seeing a video on this channel and I'm definitely subscribing. I love how you brought up all the easiest arguments, explained them away, and then clearly put together the series of events that's causing this problem.
Opium wars led to the century of humiliation. I can assure you none of them have forgotten history like we seemingly have.
As if we needed the Chinese governments help to poison ourselves with drugs, we do that very well ourselves, thank you
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.
America: "Is not ok blame fast food companies for fat people or gun companies for mass shottings but is ok blame producers and distributors for drug addiction problems."
true
Yea cause unlike food or guns drugs are illegal in America and by law we should prosecute law breakers. Also if you are fat that’s by choice just like taking drugs are a choice.
You need food to survive, leave food out of it. But, Gun companies are in fact just the same greedy pieces of shit as these Chineese drug labs. They know their product kills people and they don't care.
In the case of fentanyl yes..
Bingo
the fact cannabis is still scheduled above fenty is asanine.
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
Your content is amazing! I think you misspelled parallel in one of your screenshots. I know you care about quality content that is why I am calling your attention to that.
From Europe to me, It seems it is not about Fentanyl itself but about demand. No matter how we name the actual substance, or is it made in US, Columbia, Afghanistan, China or elsewhere. It is from one point the demand on drugs, and the other the demand on the drug provider's money. I believe we can agree on these money finds their way back to economies, even into US economy. Till both of these demand exists, talking about "historical revenge" is just good for pushing the responsibility to somebody else and keeping today's status quo as it is: where drugs are provided for people, and the wealth is circulated back to the economy where the drug billions are welcome. I do not meant to hurt people whose lost their beloved ones by any of these chemicals; I cannot fathom how hard it can be for them. I just wanted to point out that to me it seems the game is/was always the same, what I see changing is some players and the strength of the actual substances. But it is just my personal opinion, I am curious how do you see that. So, just in short: The good question is not whether it is China or Heroin or Fentanyl, but why the demand is so high and why is it allowed to hide the source of wealth and let back in the economy.
Because they keep banning drugs and people try finding new ways to get high so they invent new drug to get high on which is often worse then last one. It’s wack in mole game which is this entire video is trash . Doesn’t even. Talk about legalizing drugs .
Save your breath man, you don't know what your talking about.
This is different this is a dangerous weapon
@@worldtravel9967 no
ultimately a useless point, that there is demand is an entirely different issue. Fentanyl as reported in the video is responsible for 70% of the deaths. And if there wasnt fentanyl it would be 0% of deaths. Demand for drugs is irrelevant in this respect.
RIP Joe Amaha, Todd Suponch, Jared Marengo, Stevie Boblitt. All close friends taken forever because of fentanyl.
🎉don't do drugs lol
what's funny about that?
@@WalterKeepCoreReal
@@WalterKeepCoreReal Don't be a jerk.
Their own fault
This is absolutely fabulous. You are a great journalist. I can't thank you enough for this and I really want you to know how well done it is. Please release it as soon as you can the world needs to know
He's a spook. He reads the script.
Great report 👏👏
First Opium War:
200,000 Chinese "soldiers" on paper vs. 20,000 top quality British soldiers.
However, in actual combat the Chinese were not only outclassed but also often outnumbered since they couldn't move troops quickly.
The most difficult fight the British had was against local village militias that caught them in rural wetlands.
British strengths in the 1800s need not be explained further; we all are familiar.
Chinese weakness was compounded by a multitude of factors:
1. Great Long Peace weathered away Early Qing military capabilities and war mentality. Many cannons weren't even maintained (not that they stood a chance if they were). Many battles were just British taking pot shots against Chinese ships and forts, which offered little, if any, counterfire
2. Lack of cohesion exemplified by imperial, provincial, militia, afar, and local units being unable or unwilling to provide mutual support
3. Reduction of standards meant to pass once tough military and civil examinations was easier. The Qing didn't place the best to their posts
4. Opium addiction
5. Overall corruption. After Qianlong, the Qing walked a slow path towards decay and death
6. Poor logistics. It was harder to march supplies on the road than for the British who were like early-US with supercarriers and naval bases everywhere. Chinese troops camped in Canton were rationed raw eggplants
7. An Empire nearing its Twilight (like Rome in its final days) vs. an energetic risen power at its Peak. What would happen?
8. Lacking willpower and lying to the Emperor. This happened even during the Imjin War. The Emperor demands victory. The generals had a "meh" attitude. While the British won, the effects of the war on China was like a sleeping elephant (or dragon) getting stung by a wasp. It took many more to finally whittle down the Qing. In wars where the Qing from Emperor down to the generals took seriously and went ham, they really, really went ham. They beat France on land (lost at sea) in Vietnam and buffed Russia into a submissive stance
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.
Great clip, Cappy! I don’t consider the fentanyl crisis as “payback”, it’s more like a “pay off”-its so profitable to trade in those precursors it’s impossible to refuse doing business with bad actors.
I believe this fentanyl will get out of control. The lethal dosage is so tiny, it’s almost like a nerve agent in bio-weapons. This crisis will lead to mission creep for military to crack down on Mexico’s gangs making the drug.
Ever seen the “Sicario” movies? They’re an example of the slippery slope of increasing military intervention to stop drug cartels. And talk about life imitating art, when those nine members of a community living south of the border were mistakenly shot up by gang members, President Trump called the President of Mexico and threatened a military intervention by labeling drug cartels as terrorists considering Mexico is close to failed state status. I can’t wait for the third “Sicario” movie to come out (and Emily Blunt has gotta be in it!).
Even now, according by to Wall Street Journal, drug cartels are sensing the heat and cracking down on their own people to stop making fentanyl for two reasons: Prevent U.S. military intervention and diminishing the market by killing off your customers/users.
This subject deserves a follow-up, Cappy. Keep up the good work!
Hey, do a clip on failed states and how they churn out more trouble to surrounding countries! Or maybe expand on an article in the Economist about Paul Kagame ruling Rwanda and using his army as Ambassadors with Force… he reminds me of Colonel Alois Hammer in the “Hammer’s Slammers” series by David Drake.
Been saying this for years. Friends and family looked at me like I was crazy. I used to say “all” the fentanyl came from china. 90% is close enough.
I think it's a little from column A and a little from column B. I mean, it's not like the Chinese government is hurting for cash at the moment and they have the resources and the will to crush any and all manufacturers if they so wished. Don't hate the player... I guess?
Wait so American is not a failed state the daily school and mass shootings are normal wow I didnt know that and the drug addicts that keep buying the drugs what problems do they cause for enabling a drug lord from the south to get in the business?
This has always confused me, being a non American with limited knowledge about the subject.
It just never seemed to make sense to me, for the cartels to introduce a drug as deadly as fentanyl to the market, let alone to allow dealers to 'taint' other drugs with it. The consequences were rather foreseeable, I would say.
Killing your customer base and forcing more law enforcement/military involvement, because of how bad things were bound to get, when they were already making a shitton of money with existing drugs, seemed like such a bad longterm strategy.
@@raraavis7782 hahaha, slow down with your logical and rational thinking! That’s not how the world works! It’s all about short term money and power who cares where it leads…
I’m sarcastic obviously but when you look at what governments, cartels, and corporations do, I’m not wrong haha. No long term thinking.
You should run for office. Or start a cartel. You got a better brain than most lol
Nobody is forcing people to become drug addicts. Its 100% self inflicted. People need to take responsibility for their own actions. Its so much easier to blame others instead of taking charge of your own life.
Except that painkillers are prescribed medically and used in hospitals. You can become addicted to drugs which were prescribed to you.
Though it can be said that China supplying fentanyl is a major problem but glorification of drugs in US society is as much to blame. Stop glorifying drugs it causes problems throughout the globe. As American culture spreads far.
I have never seen or heard anyone glorify Fentanyl.
Cannabis gets a lot of hype, but that is a totally different substance. 🙂
Meh they just don't want to admit their own fault.. blaming people for your own stupidity
As an Australian, I didn’t know what fentanyl was until about a week ago
same
I’m impressed about how much good information and historical background you laid out in this video. One thing I will add, for whatever value it may be is that Max Boot (love or hate his work) pointed out that the US was less in China due to economic investment but rather to keep an eye on the British, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. We weren’t the military, economic or political powerhouse we later became. But anyway, the PRC telegraphed their punches when “Unrestricted Warfare” was published in the late 90s.
Problem is combatting supply is highly lucrative combatting the demand isn’t unfortunately
To keep an eye on what ?
The PRC had one book while your imps brag about their actual history of unrestricted warfare.
Max Boot 😂😂😂
You mean the war criminal Max Boot 😂 he has zero credibility except among those who still read the New York Times😂
Between Iraq and Afghanistan and the 2016 election how does he still get work? 😂
If your car mechanic was as wrong as he has been with his prognoses he wouldn’t have a job, but for these party insiders and political hacks they just keeping floating along likes logs of dump
collecting historic data and inventing new causalities is not impressive, its delusional.
The love of my life died in May of 2022 due to fentanyl. I hope all are held accountable to the fullest extent of our laws.
Im sorry for your loss buy no one made the choice except for your loved one. No one forced anything upon her. So please change your perspective because if Americans werent the biggest drug users and the government wasn’t corrupt stealing our freedoms and opportunities we wouldn’t be in this position.
The US has a serious drug problem. America's drug problem has massive impacts on other countries like Mexico and Columbia in which gets funded by US drug money and ends using US weapons.
@@Paper.Power.Politics probably doesn't help that doing drugs in this country is cool. The most successful rappers in this country name themselves after drugs, and the sole reason to go to raves or music festivals is to do drugs.
In the US, you get rich promoting or selling drugs. In China, you get the death penalty and be culturally shunned. The USA could never peddle drugs in China because it wouldn't sell on a mass scale.
@@Paper.Power.Politics Try to understand how responsibility works before telling others to change their perspectives.
I'm frankly tired of having to spell this out to people so I'll give you the short version: Responsibility doesn't magically stop as soon as other people's choices are involved. You can and should be held responsible for the results of your decisions, the predictable ones at least. If you sell or fund a bunch of drugs, you do so knowing that your actions will cause harm. The fact that people choose to use those drugs isn't some magical get out of jail free card, that's simply not how responsibility works, two people can be responsible for something. It's not a game of hot potato, that's a naïve and dangerous way of looking at responsibility.
You also have no idea what choices this person made, you're just making assumptions. About someone who has died. While responding to their grieving loved one.
Try to have *some* judgement.
Was he force fed that drug ?
Arizona here it's all over the place watch out
Sad to hear of the supply chain. I - myself have had Fentanyl (3) times in my life administered after surgery. You never want to have that pain. EVER. On my first instance, I had to go for full EKG, blood tests before surgery. The other two, I'd rather just remembering waking up in EXTREME pain, a nurse was above - they say "we gottca you" They introduce your IV bag in a needle form before the full bag. It hits you in only like 10 seconds. Honestly, I felt my body rise up off the table and start to split up into chunks is about what I can think of. Never, have I wanted to experience that again. There are medical usage for this, like shotgun victims etc. but keep it off the streets. It can kill you.
Considering how corrupted the medical industry is, they will likely turn around and sell it for a quick buck
I was perscribed Fent for 7 herniated discs. A large pharmacy gave me the wrong dose ( 3 x strength ) and i almost lost my life. That stuff is no joke. Very thin line bdtween therapeutic and death
I was given fetanyl after a surgery and it was the scariest experience I've had, full loss of my body, feeling of floating ec.t
The feeling of losing my ability to move my body is probably the worst.
I was on the Fentanyl patch, and a HUGE amount was 100 mcg for 2 herniated cervical disks, they never should have put me on fentanyl or that high of a dose. My issue was the lack of support offered by the medical community. I had moved and the new doctor refused to prescribe pain meds, which put me into severe withdrawals. I was ready to just buy some heroin off the street, but luckily I instead found a methadone clinic, else I am sure I'd be dead by now. I couldn't believe how after putting me on such a horrible and addicting medication, the medical community was just like.. now you stop, have fun... no taper, nothing, I was left to fend for myself after they had gotten me addicted. This is also a common story, but many just start buying it off the streets instead of finding treatment
@@HicSvntDracones Docs are a big part of the problem. After they get you hooked, they wash their hands of you because you're an "addict" and don't even bother to follow CDC guidelines on treatment of addiction.
Chris, your work keeps getting better. Really great job
4 years sober ❤🎉😊 the best thing ive done for myself was take myself to an outpatient clinic . Fight like hell to survive because the " percocets" were actually majority fentanyl. Over the last 4 years, things have gotten brutal. i truly believe I wouldn't be here had i not got clean. Life is night and day different i am happy and healthy and free! Anyone can do it i believe in you!
So happy for you 👏
@flowwesterly6136 thank you flow 🙏🏼 very kind of you
"Precursor chemicals"
If you bought fertilizer and built a bomb and maimed yourself would it be the feritlizer dealer that's to blame? Same thing applies here
Ridiculous. You clearly have no knowledge of organic chemistry or you'd understand it's nothing like selling fertiliser. More like someone selling you a bomb casing, detonator and enriched uranium.
WOW! Where do you get all this? You make my brain hurt. When I first started following your channel you were basically an infantry tech guy, now you are as varied an area of coverage as I can find. Now I have to watch your videos at least twice. Thank you and your people for all the hard work and my headaches.
As an opinion writer in Scientific American pointed out, the DEA did the worst thing they could have done. For them, it was a crisis to profit from; argue for further hiring and draconian new regulations. If they had slowly reduced the amount of safe pain killers and allowed doctors to be doctors, the poison of fentanyl never would have appeared on U.S. streets.
Some emergency doc had to inject me Fentanyl (0.10ml i think) i never felt more under the influence of anything before in my life. I tried some shit. But this was different. I understand every addict. The feeling you get is just wow... Even while your in pain from an car accident. I hope you guys find the strength to fight trough this Chrisis!
Doctors just give fentanyl in the US?
Maybe focus less on China and more on the doctors? What the fuck?
For context, Dutch doctors will give you an asprin and tell you to sleep it off if you're in pain.
You liked it , didn't you?
@@mr.makedonija2627no shit
You like Krabby Patties, don't you Squidward?@@mr.makedonija2627
Lying as 😂that’s medicine not this fet buddy
The best healing conditions for addicts and mental health is a stress free place in nature with sharing stories ,exercise ,good food ,breathing ,relaxation and bathing ...
That's a really high quality overview! However, I think it misses two key factors: US work culture and US healthcare.
The reason a lot of people get hooked on opioids - especially in physical jobs - is that they are pressured to push themselves too hard and hurt their back. At this point, instead of taking a couple of weeks and some physiotherapy to recover, they go to the doctor to get something that would allow them to work the next day, get opioids, which allow them to keep going while the underlying health issue is getting worse. At this point they can't really stop taking it to remain working, and keep taking it, developing an addiction. Once they loose their job - and hence coverage - or get cut off - or realize that the street stuff works just as good and is heaps cheaper than the one they are getting from pharmacy (even with they insurance) - they are inside the loop.
This culture "I have to be back at work tomorrow" is much worse in the military - even among veterans - making them so much more susceptible to entering the cycle.
But that, unfortunately, is a much bigger and harder problem to address.
It's also a loss of hope. Saw a video of a vet who was about to commit suicide, and was pleading with the officer not to get an ambulance because he couldn't afford it.The barrier of entry to work towards a better life has been getting higher and higher.
Although that particular incident was not drug related afaik, I think more people are choosing drugs as a way to cope, and another mechanism for suicide.
Opioids for treating back pain is about as absurd as an amputation of a leg for a scratch - it's not a failure of work culture, it's a failure of gross incompetence in the medical system on a very basic level. So much for having most of medical research in the world being done in US, when the resulting healthcare is completely insane and serves pharma profits instead of public health.
Spot on reply. Drug addiction is mostly a healthcare and poverty issue. Most Americans need to understand that people who abuse these substances are out of despair, and not solely because of the supply. There’s been plenty of studies with animals where they would never touch a drug if they are an environment that is fulfilling. I’ve met people who’ve told me they started drinking because of the stress at work and i would blame them for the lack of discipline. I also started drinking for the same reason as i got older and i regret being so callous to them. The war on drugs has been a complete disaster and many lives have been ruined because it.
I think China also has this issue about work culture and healthcare. No way their healthcare or work culture is better than the USA. I wonder why Fentanyl is not as a big an issue in their country.
@@randomyoutubebrowser5217 China definitely has its issues. I'm not expert, but I know there is not a lot of crime or homelessness there. That could be a big reason why, despite whatever hardships they have, do not have such a large drug epidemic as America has.
In America, if you're down and out, you're on your own. If you couldn't find a way to make it in this capitalist nation, that's your fault.
I lost my best friend to this drug crisis. This is hell on the American people.
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
I'm genuinely impressed with the commentary and research you've done......amazing
Excellent news 👏 👍 report!!!! Kudos.
Rational. Logical. Concise.
Bravo.David Lee Heatherly
So many people sharing their recovery stories in the comments. Heart warming stuff I hope someone who is struggling right now gets to see this
maybe don't be a drug addict..... people here are delusional themselves into this mess.
Addiction is a common and legitimate disease. You’re not a bad person if you are dealing with it. There is help and it can get so much better.
im struggling everyday when i have to face myself even if its a new day but i dont turn to drugs because i want to escape temporarily
@@Lomi311right being addicted to a drug doesn’t make you a bad person.
Stealing, lying, cheating, scheming and being an all around pain in the ass does make you a bad person.
This is the real world you don’t get to act like an a$$hole and be like “yea but I was on drugs so all those things don’t count I’m a good person”
“I know I just stole like $500 dollars from you and lied to you about it but just because I’m a drug addict doesn’t make me a bad person”
You’re not doing any addicts any favors
Until we start to work on the addiction side, it will only get worse. We have been fighting another loosing war on drugs for over 40 years, and we are nowhere near the end. Have you ever wondered why is it that all law enforcement agencies will fight to fund addiction prevention programs, but keep asking for more money for a loosing war?
It’s because of a stupid ancient belief that Reagan thought he was a messiah on, the drug war. We need to stop treating addicts badly and change the way we view things so that treatment can be a much easier process than it is. So many incredible videos on this that prove that it’s the way that treatment is handled which gets to the root of the issue, so many European countries have succeeded while we are stuck treating things like we did in the 1980’s lol
@@Dominicn123 Thank the maker for you guys I thought I was going bloddy fucking crazy. This entire comment section is brain dead.
The veteran's higher opioid deaths is related on how BAD you treat your veterans and your old people.
Great video our harsh reality. Thank you for including Lil Peep. I appreciate that it’s sad to say like back then compared to now there is no comparison. It’s just worse like he predicted.🇺🇸💯✨👑🐠
Never interrupt your enemy as they are making a mistake
Thank you for covering this task and purpose this truly is the real pandemic and I'm grateful that you are shedding a light on this.
7 million people died from covid in 2-3 years with 1.2m dead in 3 years in the US alone
100K people died from drug overdoses in the US and we make up over 70% of the worlds overdoses.
Clearly the numbers dont play out that this is the "real pandemic"
A this is mostly a US issue.... pan = global
B. the annual death rate in the US of covid was far higher than all drug overdoses in the US in any year
Cannabis lost its schedule 1 status and is now under the same classification as fentanyl, which is absolutely bonkers
@000ave I'm talking about federal status, not state. It's recreational use is legal in a bunch of states
Excellent video, thank you.
Altogether now say, Trojan horse and history repeats itself.Super great job I don’t subscribe often, but I like your logic.
We thank you for your service Peace
A few years ago I was offered Fentanyl at the kilogram level from Chinese chemical companies. Completely insane! Didn't accept, obviously, despite ridiculously low prices 😅
wild how easy it is to order that stuff. my understanding is that most of those packages do not get seized by customs.
what do you do? people just offer you that on the street?
Yep, I deal with Chinese chemical companies for legal laboratory reagents and after 3 or 4 emails about a quarter of them will offer a long list of drugs.
It's like 5k a kg, right?
I mean these are chemical that can be used for a lot of things but if you choose to make fentanyl out of it it's not China's problem.
Thanks for the research you did on this. Seems like nobody's talking about it.
T&P I love the channel, but I cant even stomach to watch this one...as a chronic pain sufferer myself whos been turnt to the street by my doctors and lost friends going through the same, this just infuriates me to no end. Im in medical recovery now, I just wish my friends had had the same chance. Cheers from Texas!
As an Australian the opioid mess in America is 100% prove that government controlled not for profit medical system is essential for a country. Im 40 years old I have never seen an add for opioid pain killers. trying to even get a prescription like that from a doctor in Australia would be extremely hard and it's because the doctors have no profit incentive to push them.
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.
I’m American and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a direct to consumer advertisement for opioid drugs either.
As someone who has had trouble with the stuff in the past - I am fairly certain I’d notice.
Even in Korea Fentanyl is problem. It shocked me when one man was found dead inside the bathroom of my hometown's metro station. My town is relatably small, and residents are mostly middle classed people with kids. Drug problem increased 5 times more since 2020.
Never a issue here in europe
I am 8 months clean off a ten year heroin addiction. If you have any questions about opiates I am pretty sure I am an expert on the subject.
Edit: Cappy you knocked it out the park with this one. Most accurate video I have seen on drugs by a non addict in a while. IMHO I don't think Chinas intention at the beginning was to hurt us then even if it is now. I have messed with research chemicals since 2008 when they were made in the US. When China started being the only source I used to chat with the girl that spoke English at one of these labs on FB. On the low end some Chinese might know what's going on but for most of them it's just their day job.
Good luck on your journey!
Of course some poor Chinese person working in the ChungXiBao chemical factory doesn't give a $#!/ about you, one-way or the other.
If you are not totally illiterate you won't try it.
They give more of a shit than the government. They know that if you won't buy from them, then someone else will source it, and will probably source a less clean/more deadly version too.
Eliminating the supply doesn't eliminate the demand. @@Metapharsical
Hey brother, I'm 9 years clean off Meth, Fentanyl, PCP, morphine, cocaine, Flakka, several other opioids and stimulants, hallucinogens, and miss-use chemicals. Good for you, stay clean.
For anyone else struggling, I was one of the worst use cases, you can get there, start at a day, the day becomes the month, the month becomes the year, the year becomes the decade.
Most importantly, reach out to people, you're not alone. If you get shut off, reach else where, pursue avenues of common ground, you'll find others.
This is absolutely Chinese foreign policy now as they have been informed about this issue at every diplomatic meeting since Obama. No, he totally swung and missed on a great opportunity.
The Fentanyl comes into northwestern Florida, in or around Piney Island. I believe the Sea Aye Ay also has docks, a crane or two, some earth movers, and a facility nearby.