Report: Area in Mexico Dedicated to Poppy Cultivation Bigger Than DC; US Heroin Fatalities Set Record
By Mark Browne | June 29, 2017 | 2:02 AM EDT
An opium poppy plantation. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Mexico City (CNSNews.com) – Poppy cultivation in Mexico covers an area larger than the District of Columbia, while worldwide opium production shot up by one-third in 2016, according to two recent U.N. studies.
Meanwhile, fatal heroin overdoses in the U.S. last year broke all previous records, the U.N.’s recently released World Drug Report2017 found.
“Mostly driven by opioids, overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled during the period 1999-2015, from 16,849 to 52,404 annually,” the report said.
Deaths from overdoses in the U.S. “increased by 11.4 percent in the past year alone, to reach the highest level ever recorded.”
Inpatient opioid-related hospitalizations in the US skyrocketed by 64 percent from 2005 to 2014, according to a study by U.S. Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Released this month, the study found that emergency room visits related to opioids “nearly doubled” during the period.
Arkansas and Iowa had the lowest rates of opioid-related emergency room visits, while Maryland had the highest.
Last year, the Mexican government with assistance from the U.N. released the results of a first-ever survey of opium fields under cultivation in Mexico, using aerial photography and satellite images taken between 2014 and 2015.
It found a minimum of 21,500 hectares (83 square miles) and a maximum of 24,800 (95 square miles) under active cultivation. The District of Columbia is 68.3 square miles in area.
IMMANENT COLLAPSE THE PENA-NIETO
REGIME AND FALL TO THE LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS ON AMERICAN OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS.
More significant still, a
former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash
Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal
immigrants and the construction of a border wall.
“Mexico in a country whose
four wealthiest billionaires control as much wealth as the bottom half of the
population—the 65 million that live in poverty (which includes 13 million
living in extreme poverty)—and where the top 10 percent as a whole accounts for
67 percent of Mexico’s national wealth.”
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