Tuesday, July 21, 2015

AMERICA: MEXICO'S HEROIN MARKET - US heroin deaths triple in four years

TIME TO CLOSE AND DEFEND OUR BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX???


US heroin deaths triple in four years

US heroin deaths triple in four years

By Gabriel Black
21 July 2015
Heroin use more than doubled in the United States between 2007 and 2013, according to a July 7 report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In an even shorter time span, between 2010 and 2013, deaths from heroin overdose almost tripled.

Heroin, an opioid street drug, is extremely addictive and highly lethal. The CDC report states that in 2013 an estimated 517,000 people in the United States used heroin. That same year, 8,257 people died of overdoses involving the drug.

This epidemic, as it is now classified by the CDC, comes amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. It is no surprise that two sections of society most brutalized by the crisis, poor people and youth, are also the two sections that have the highest rates of heroin use and have seen the largest increase in usage rates.

For every 1,000 people aged 12 or older in the United States living in a household earning less than $20,000 a year, 5.5 used heroin in 2013. This was more than three times the rate for people living in households making more than $50,000.

In 2013, young people between the ages of 18 and 25 used heroin at a rate of 7.3 per thousand people, a 109 percent increase from 2003. Those over the age of 25 use heroin less, at a rate of 1.9 per thousand people.

The concurrence of economic distress and heroin use finds expression in the city of Baltimore. “As many as one in 10 of the city’s residents are addicted,” according to a March 2015 “ABC News” special entitled “Baltimore is the U.S. Heroin Capital.” Life is so bleak for working class teens that a study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Baltimore teens faced worse health conditions and life choices than their counterparts in urban Nigeria, India and China.
Heroin abuse has grown alongside a larger synthetic-opiate drug addiction epidemic in the United States. Between 2003 and 2013 prescription drug use quadrupled. In 2013, 6.1 million Americans abused prescription drugs, of which, opioids, such as Vicodin, OxyContin and Percocet, constituted the majority. Eighty percent of heroin users have also used prescription opiates.

The CDC report notes that while heroin is still primarily used amongst poor city-dwellers, groups with historically low rates of use, such as women, those with incomes exceeding $50,000 a year, and those with private insurance have also increasedpossibly due to heroin being a cheaper alternative to these prescription drugs. The CDC, however, states that in areas where prescription drug abuse increased, heroin abuse did too. This means that there is not an exodus from prescription medication to heroin, but an increase in both simultaneously.

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Acting Administrator, Chuck Rosenberg, commented to CNN regarding the report. He stated that 120 people died each day in the United States due to drug overdose and that his agency would “continue to target the criminal gangs that supply heroin, and we will work to educate folks about the dangers and to reduce demand.”

The increased availability of heroin in the US is related to the US military’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer of opium, a precursor of heroin.

Heroin production has increased as Afghani farmers struggle to achieve an income amid decades of war and occupation. In addition to being lucrative in a time of profound insecurity, heroin is produced because the fruit and nut tree groves the climate allows have been destroyed. According to the Afghanistan government, in southern Kandahar province alone $100 million damage was done to fruit crops and homes between the US invasion in 2001 and 2011.

An August 2010 a Washington Post article, for instance, documents how US soldiers would destroy vineyards and orchards to ensure Taliban fighters had no place to hide mines.

In 2013, 209,000 hectares of opium were cultivated in Afghanistan, up from 82,000 hectares in 2000.
The enormous growth in heroin use, particularly among young people, reflects the disastrous social and economic reality in the United States, where young people confront mass unemployment and shrinking prospects for education.

This summer, only about one in four US teenagers will hold a job, down from one in two fifteen years ago.

To the extent that jobs are available, they are disproportionately low-wage, part-time, and contingent. A 2014 report by the National Employment Law Project noted that while US businesses have added 1.85 million low-wage jobs over the past six years, they have eliminated 1.83 million medium-wage and high-wage jobs.



OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS

SOARING DEATH IN AMERICA: MEXICO DELIVERS THE HEROIN.


MEXICO’S INVASION:

THEY EXPORT CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR WELFARE, POVERTY, HEROIN and METH…


HEROIN

WHY THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS LOVE OBAMA: 

SURGE IN MEX DRUGS THROUGH OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS
 

“According to the report, the amount of heroin seized at the southern U.S. border increased 232% between 2008 and 2012 — apparently the result of greater Mexican heroin production and a growing incursion by Mexican traffickers into U.S. markets. It notes that the U.S. is experiencing a “sizable increase” in the number of new heroin users.”


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/11/obamas-open-and-undefended-borders.html



THE CARTELS NOW OPERATE IN MORE THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES INCLUDING OBAMA’S CHICAGO!

more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast


Known for mounting the severed heads 
of its rivals on poles or hanging their 
dismembered bodies from bridges in  
cities throughout Mexico, Los Zetas  
easily has become the most feared  
criminal gang  in Mexico.
 

THERE IS A REASON WHY THE MEXICAN  OPERATE IN MORE

THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES, INCLUDING OBAMA’S CHICAGO!



Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'

what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the MEXICAN  now operate in 2,500 American cities!


The birthrate among illegals is more than double that of legal US residents. The Pew Hispanic Center calculates that within seven years, the children of immigrants, legal and illegal, will account for one in nine school-age children in the US.


Byron York: What is the real number of illegal border crossings? Washington Examiner

                                                                                                                                                                                  


JUDICIAL WATCH: 165,000 MEX CRIMINALS ON THE LOOSE.
IT’S ALL PART OF OBAMA’S CATCH, RELEASE, LOOT AND VOTE DEM PROGRAM!


 
“Until lawmakers end the catch-and-release policies of the Obama administration,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, “any infrastructure improvements, new strategies, and better metrics are pointless.”

 

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