Thursday, December 13, 2018

AMERICAN LIFE EXPECTANCY DECLINES again AS FENTANYL RAMPAGE CONTINUES




PELOSI’S OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE CHEAP LABOR

The Mexican Army made two seizures in Ensenada on August 17 (1,036 pounds of meth, heroin, and fentanyl) and August 18 (1,653 pounds of meth, fentanyl, and marijuana).

The Mexican Army discovered an active drug lab on August 25 in Tecate and seized four tons of methamphetamine.

The Mexican Federal Police seized 350 pounds of methamphetamine in an active drug lab in Tijuana on August 26.
The Mexican Federal Police seized 20,000 fentanyl pills in an active lab in Mexicali on September 10.

The Mexican Federal Police seized 550 pounds of methamphetamine in Tijuana on September 12.

The Mexican Army seized 1,055 pounds of methamphetamine near the Arizona border on September 14.

U.S. Life Expectancy Declines Again as Fentanyl Rampage Continues



The US opioid epidemic is accelerating, with hospital emergency room visits for overdoses from drugs like heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers up 30 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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American life expectancy declined again last year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), adding up to the worst four-year decline since 1915-1918, when mortality rates were driven by the infamous meat grinder of World War One and a deadly flu pandemic. Astonished medical experts pointed to drug overdose deaths as a major reason for the decline.


Overdose deaths have, in turn, reached epidemic levels due to fentanyl and other powerful synthetic opioids imported and distributed by street gangs.
The Washington Post quoted CDC data that makes the role of street drugs clear, specifically noting that legal painkillers – the focus of much attention in Washington – are not causing mortality rates to increase:
Overall, Americans could expect to live 78.6 years at birth in 2017, down a tenth of a year from the 2016 estimate, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Men could anticipate a lifespan of 76.1 years, down a tenth of a year from 2016. Life expectancy for women in 2017 was 81.1 years, unchanged from the previous year.
Drug overdoses set another annual record in 2017, cresting at 70,237 — up from 63,632 the year before, the government said in a companion report. The opioid epidemic continued to take a relentless toll, with 47,600 deaths in 2017 from drugs sold on the street such as fentanyl and heroin, as well as prescription narcotics. That was also a record number, driven largely by an increase in fentanyl deaths.
Since 1999, the number of drug overdose deaths has more than quadrupled. Deaths attributed to opioids were nearly six times greater in 2017 than they were in 1999.
Deaths from legal painkillers did not increase in 2017. There were 14,495 overdose deaths attributed to narcotics such as oxycodone and hydrocodone and 3,194 from methadone, which is used as a painkiller. Those totals were virtually identical to the numbers in 2016. The number of heroin deaths, 15,482, also did not rise from the previous year.
Experts quoted by the Post suggested efforts to combat the abuse of prescription painkillers, particularly their purchase and resale by gangsters, have been fairly effective. Unfortunately, this created even more demand for street drugs. “The opioid market has been completely taken over by fentanyl,” former Maryland health secretary and Johns Hopkins vice-dean Joshua M. Sharfstein lamented.
report published Wednesday by CDC made it clear fentanyl is now the Number One cause of overdose deaths, adding more evidence to the “third wave” model of the opioid crisis: a surge in prescription painkiller abuse during the first decade of the 21st Century, followed by explosive growth in the use of heroin after prescription drug abuse declined in 2012, and now a tidal wave of fentanyl killing addicts who don’t always realize they are consuming it because street dealers mix it with heroin.
CDC researchers noted deaths from heroin have been steadily rising for years, but deaths from fentanyl doubled every year from 2013 to 2016, and 2017 was not much better. Fentanyl victims have other drugs in their system in over two-thirds of overdose fatalities, a statistic that offers grim support for the idea that addicts don’t realize cheap and deadly fentanyl has been mixed into their illicit purchases by opportunistic dealers.
This also makes it difficult to count the number of fentanyl deaths precisely, since medical examiners don’t always detect fentanyl or note it was the true cause of death in heroin and cocaine overdoses, so researchers are always careful to note fentanyl could be even more deadly than it appears.
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle noted the pleas from medical professionals for more resources to treat addicts and suggested a radical course of action: offering mild opioids as prescription drugs to addicts to satisfy their uncontrollable craving without sending them to the streets, where fentanyl-laced heroin bombs await.
McArdle argued that addiction to opioids is so powerful that “tough love” policies of cold turkey detox and unsatisfying medical substitutes like naloxone amount to freeing the slaves of heroin by killing them:
That leaves two options: Keep doing what we’re doing and let addicts keep dying as they’re dying, until the opioid epidemic burns itself out. Or start talking about ways to make safe, reliable doses of opiates available to addicts who aren’t ready to stop. That would mean opening more methadone clinics and making it less onerous for doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, a relatively mild opioid that’s difficult to overdose on. But lowering the death toll may well require a more drastic step: legalizing prescriptions of stronger opiates.
Prescription heroin? Remember, I said you might not like the solution. I don’t like it, either — and frankly, neither do the drug policy researchers who told me it may be necessary. But when fentanyl took over the U.S. illicit drug markets, it also got a lot of addicts as hostages. We’ll never be able to rescue them unless we can first keep them alive long enough to be saved.
Olga Khazan at the Atlantic made a supporting case that the campaign to stigmatize opioids in the medical profession is making it harder for addicts to get the treatment they need, pushing them into rehab programs that offer no medication at all, or provide ineffective meds and doses that send hungry patients back to the streets in search of a better fix.
Khazan mentioned France bringing heroin overdose deaths down substantially by allowing primary care physicians to prescribe buprenorphine, a heroin substitute also highlighted by McArdle as a promising resource. She talked to addicts in hard-hit New Jersey who were aware of medical heroin substitutes and desperate to give them a shot but were unable to do so because supplies are scarce and the programs are difficult to get into.
Khazan frankly acknowledged public and medical resistance to keeping addicts alive by feeding them taxpayer-subsidized “safe” drugs to keep them from buying heroin and fentanyl on the streets, but quoted doctors who believe a gentle and forgiving strategy of “harm reduction” with plenty of second chances for relapsed addicts is preferable to stern abstinence programs that kick patients out if they don’t stay clean.
“They remain clear-eyed about the fact that some people will continue using heroin, and they try to minimize the dangers associated with its use,” she said of these kinder and gentler clinics, praising the opioid bill signed by President Donald Trump in October as a positive but insufficient step toward making harm reduction programs more widely available.
Hard-hit states like Maryland are attempting to attack the supply chain of fentanyl by seeking tougher penalties for dealers and pushing fentanyl cases into federal court – an effort that will, unfortunately, run afoul of the new mania in Washington for reducing drug sentences and releasing convicts from prison.
Those on the front lines of the drug epidemic warn that dealers are making a big push to get their deadly products into schools and hook young customers. The treatment programs endorsed by McArdle and Khazan won’t do anything to prevent new addicts from falling into the clutches of street dealers. They represent a grim but maintenance program for a terminal social disease, not an inoculation against the problem growing even worse.
If dealers don’t have to worry about long prison sentences, the only way to stop the fentanyl epidemic is to choke off the supply of drugs and gang muscle flowing across the border. It is simply the only logical course of action remaining to us. Otherwise, we may have little choice but to keep addicts alive by giving them taxpayer-funded alternatives to fentanyl, and we had better be ready for those programs to expand massively in the years ahead.

OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS
SOARING DEATH IN AMERICA: MEXICO DELIVERS THE HEROIN.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/03/la-raza-mexican-drug-cartels-in.html

LOS ANGELES: MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY AND  GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS          



A.G. JEFF SESSIONS DEFENDS U.S. BORDERS AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND MEXICO’S INVASION.
"Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking." HEATHER MAC DONALD
 “Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com 

CJNG is one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico and the Department of Justice considers it to be one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world — responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl-laced heroin into the United States.

WALL STREET TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: DIE YOUNG… your company pension dies with you!
OPIOID AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION KILLS OF MIDDLE AMERICA


SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty. 

AMERICA UNRAVELS:

Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!

"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly three-quarters of all household wealth."

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html

"While telling workers there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund social programs, both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build, stuffing the pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."


Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses


A highly potent synthetic opioid, fentanyl is often mixed into other drugs sold on the street, including pills, heroin and even cocaine.
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Fentanyl is now the drug most frequently involved in overdose deaths in the U.S., according to a National Vital Statistics System report published Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report sheds a bright light on the changing nature of America's drug landscape — and the devastating number of overdose deaths that have occurred in the U.S. in recent years.
Back in 2011, oxycodone was the drug most commonly linked to overdose deaths. Starting in 2012 and lasting until 2015, heroin surpassed painkillers to become the drug most often involved. But then fentanyl, a synthetic opioid pain reliever 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the American drug supply — what the CDC calls "the third wave" of the opioid epidemic. By 2016, overdose deaths involving fentanyl had become more common than any other.
The authors of the report identified drug overdose deaths by looking at the text on death certificates for the years 2011 to 2016. In cases where a death involved more than one drug (e.g., both heroin and cocaine), they counted the death in all relevant drug categories. Alcohol, nicotine and other non-drug substances were not part of the analysis.



These numbers have only continued to rise in 2017, according to a separate CDC data brief issued in November. It states that the rate of overdose deaths involving fentanyl had risen to 9 per 100,000 people, compared to 6.2 per 100,000 in 2016.

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Jump In Overdoses Shows Opioid Epidemic Has Worsened

The numbers in the National Vital Statistics System report show how fentanyl took a lethal hold quickly after the drug widely entered the American drug market. In 2011 and again 2012, fentanyl was mentioned in about 1,600 drug overdose deaths. By 2016, fentanyl was connected to 18,335 such deaths: it was linked to 29 percent of all drug overdose deaths that year.
In more than two-thirds of the overdose deaths involving fentanyl, one or more other drugs were present. That's not surprising, because drugs including heroin and cocaine are now often sold with fentanyl mixed in. Sometimes people believe they are taking pure heroin or cocaine, but the drug is laced with fentanyl. Such situations can easily lead to overdose.
The report also highlights the importance for accurate reporting in the text of death certificates. A study published earlier this year found that the U.S. has been undercounting opioid-related deaths by 20 to 35 percent, due to varying standards between states and counties for investigating and reporting overdose deaths. Coroners and medical examiners often don't state exactly which drugs contributed to a death on a death certificate.

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Omissions On Death Certificates Lead To Undercounting Of Opioid Overdoses

 

But those practices have been getting better in recent years: The researchers note that their results may have been affected by the improvements in reporting the specific drugs involved in overdose deaths. Accordingly, they applied an adjustment factor taking into account better reporting of specific drugs involved.
These recent trends are part of a larger epidemic of fatal drug overdoses, which more than tripled between 1999 and 2017.

Democrats can't stand the thought of protecting Americans



Democrats and their cheerleaders in the mainstream media tout themselves as concerned for those addicted to drugs and regularly support increased spending money for therapy.  But they refuse to fund building the wall and for border security on the Mexican border.
The wall would significantly stop the flow of illegal drugs through the Mexican border to the USA, which would reduce the supply of illegal drugs that cause addiction and deaths by overdose.  The Democrats and media support spending money to deal with the effects of drugs smuggled across the border but refuse to spend money to stop the smuggling.
There is no doubt that illegal drugs and most heroin come across the Mexican border.  And now we have fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine.  According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), "[c]landestinely-produced fentanyl is primarily manufactured in Mexico.

The Mexican cartels are producing fentanyl and also receive it from China to smuggle it to the USA.  It is very profitable for the cartels.

In 2017, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, with at least 30,000 attributed to fentanyl.
President Trump has called for a border wall to stop illegal immigration and to reduce the flow of illegal drugs, such as heroin and fentanyl.  It is common sense and logical that building a wall and fully securing the southern border would reduce the flow of such drugs, reducing deaths and addiction.
Yet the Democrats refuse to fund the border wall and border security.
Senator Schumer and Speaker-Elect Pelosi agree to spend $1.5 billion for "border security" but not for a wall.  President Trump is asking for only $5 billion.  It is estimated that $27 to $40 billion is needed to fully fund the wall.
It is time to fully fund the border wall.  The Trump Shutdown should focus on the record number of Americans who die due to drugs smuggled from Mexico.  The focus should be on the Democrats and media that ignore the danger to Americans.  This debate should be coupled with the number of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens.
Democrats and their media will quibble about the exact number of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens.  But the point is that such crimes are avoidable if the border is secured.
President Trump must be supported to shut down the federal government to finally force funding the wall to  protect Americans.  The issue is protecting Americans.
Iran is the principal state sponsor and supporter of terrorism.  Iran has promised to destroy Israel.  Iran's Parliament chanted "death to America" while burning our flag.  The Dems and their media supported giving $150 billion to Iran but, they refuse to spend more than $1.5 billion to protect Americans, when they know that spending $27 to $40 billion would save thousands of Americans from death and addiction.
The bottom line is that the Dems and their media do not care about the security and safety of Americans.

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