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applegrove

(130,238 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:06 AM Dec 6

If Trump is killing off cocaine drug runners (in Venezuela boats) so there will be less

cocaine in the US, will addicts in the USA turn to Fentanyl and die more often? Anyone know?

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Clouds Passing

(6,970 posts)
4. The gqpcia is the largest illegal drug dealing organization in the us.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:17 AM
Dec 6

My son died from an overdose of illegal fentanyl



purr-rat beauty

(974 posts)
12. Yup
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:19 AM
Dec 6

I remember that story...but the media not so much

These assaults are part of the corruption trifecta

Intimidation
Epstein distraction
And election disruption

Johonny

(25,431 posts)
6. According to the Bulwark cocain prices are down
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:26 AM
Dec 6

Meaning supplies are up. It is almost like as if they are blowing up boats not trafficking drugs to the US because they're fucking evil assholes.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,557 posts)
14. Fentanyl is an opoid - an analgesic and sedative
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:33 PM
Dec 6

while cocaine is a stimulant. If anyone sees one as an alternative to the other, they're in the "I just want drugs of any kind" stage.

applegrove

(130,238 posts)
17. I just heard on the news cocaine, heroin and precursor chemicals
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:39 PM
Dec 6

to fentanyl come by boat in the Caribbean.

yardwork

(68,966 posts)
16. Even if those boats had cocaine on them - which I doubt -
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:38 PM
Dec 6

It would be a tiny drop of the supply. No impact.

AZJonnie

(2,784 posts)
19. Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:26 PM
Dec 6

Uppers vs Downers, essentially. And neither drug can be substituted to significantly mediate the effects of withdrawals from the other. There's not nearly the same direct line as the one that can be drawn between, say, the stricter enforcement of Rx laws over pharmaceutical opioids leading to more people taking (much more deadly) illicit fentanyl and heroin.

But sure, there would some who might switch to the opioids if cocaine were unavailable, with potentially deadly consequences. It's likely a lot more would turn to meth though, as it's much more similar to cocaine in effect.

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