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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf 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?
Ferrets are Cool
(22,829 posts)Norrrm
(4,773 posts)
Emile
(41,934 posts)Blues Heron
(8,690 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,829 posts)My son died from an overdose of illegal fentanyl
applegrove
(131,745 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,829 posts)applegrove
(131,745 posts)lose one. My thoughts are with you.
Clouds Passing
(7,829 posts)yardwork
(69,263 posts)How heartbreaking.
brer cat
(27,531 posts)It is just heartbreaking!
Norrrm
(4,773 posts)
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
(26,024 posts)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.
lame54
(39,561 posts)Is all he's accomplishing
muriel_volestrangler
(106,052 posts)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
(131,745 posts)to fentanyl come by boat in the Caribbean.
Emile
(41,934 posts)yardwork
(69,263 posts)It would be a tiny drop of the supply. No impact.
AZJonnie
(3,582 posts)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.