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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
(22,526 posts)Norrrm
(3,987 posts)
Emile
(40,593 posts)Blues Heron
(8,348 posts)Clouds Passing
(6,970 posts)My son died from an overdose of illegal fentanyl
applegrove
(130,238 posts)Clouds Passing
(6,970 posts)applegrove
(130,238 posts)lose one. My thoughts are with you.
Clouds Passing
(6,970 posts)yardwork
(68,966 posts)How heartbreaking.
brer cat
(27,349 posts)It is just heartbreaking!
Norrrm
(3,987 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
(25,431 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
(39,210 posts)Is all he's accomplishing
muriel_volestrangler
(105,557 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
(130,238 posts)to fentanyl come by boat in the Caribbean.
Emile
(40,593 posts)yardwork
(68,966 posts)It would be a tiny drop of the supply. No impact.
AZJonnie
(2,784 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.