[LMB] Recent fentanyl stats Re: OT: Worries

[alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca]

Just saw this NPR story yesterday. Does not mention imports:

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/30/1069062738/more-than-a-million-americans-have-died-from-overdoses-during-the-opioid-epidemi
More than a million Americans have died from overdoses during the opioid 
epidemic
December 30, 202110:26 AM ET

Deaths due to drug overdose have topped a million for the first time since 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began collecting data on 
the problem more than two decades ago.

A study released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a 
division of the CDC, found that 932,364 people died in the U.S. from fatal 
overdoses from 1999 through 2020.

Separate preliminary data from the CDC shows another 100,000 drug deaths 
expected in 2021.

[...]In recent years, most overdose deaths have involved illicit fentanyl, 
a powerful synthetic opioid, as well as cocaine and methamphetamines. 
[...]

There is this DEA report from 2020, which doesn't indicate a massive 
increase nor the stats William quotes:

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

The flow of fentanyl into the United States in 2019 is more diverse 
compared to the start of the fentanyl crisis in 2014, with new source 
countries and new transit countries emerging as significant trafficking 
nodes. This is exacerbating the already multi-faceted fentanyl crisis by 
introducing additional source countries into the global supply chain of 
fentanyl, fentanyl-related substances, and fentanyl precursors. Further, 
this complicates law enforcement operations and policy efforts to stem the 
flow of fentanyl into the United States. While Mexico and China are the 
primary source countries for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances 
trafficked directly into the United States, India is emerging as a source 
for finished fentanyl powder and fentanyl precursor chemicals.

This report from August 24, 2021 again indicates a continuing and serious 
problem with illicit fentanyl coing into the US, but not a jump in the 
amount nor those stats:

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/Illicit_Fentanyl_from_China-An_Evolving_Global_Operation.pdf

Alayne

> On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:45:43 +0000, WILLIAM A WENRICH <wawenri at msn.com>
> wrote:
>> As if we didn't have enough problems, this year the US border patrol 
>> has seized enough fentanyl to kill 1/3 of the population of the world. 
>> Anyone think that they got all or even most of it?

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022, Marc Wilson wrote:
> It gives citations for its claims, or else it gets the hose again. -- 
> Cardinal

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