Chinese crackdown on fentanyl could lead to worse drugs filling the vaccum - eviltoast
China Will Crack Down on Fentanyl Sent to the US. Worse Drugs Could Fill the Vacuum.
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The U.S. already pressured China to ban fentanyl once. Supply grew exponentially afterwards.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that China would crack down on the production and exporting of fentanyl and the precursor chemicals used to make it, according to media reports.

But while Biden is painting the agreement as a win that will “save lives”, drug policy experts told VICE News they’re skeptical the measure will curb the overdose crisis—and it may make the drug supply worse.

Biden and Xi met Wednesday in San Francisco, where both leaders were in town for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. According to the New York Times, China will go after the exporting of illicit fentanyl into the U.S. and the manufacturing of precursor chemicals, which are being used to make fentanyl and smuggle it into the country from Mexico.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 year ago

    Fent…makes you absolutely retarded when yr on it, but when you are, you are transported to the warm busom of God til you snap out of it. You don’t care about anything, hunger, cold, any trauma, any worries, any stressors. It all melts away for that short amount of time.

    That may be true recreationally, but I had it in the ER when I had a kidney stone and all it did was take away the pain and make me drowsy.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah both my wife and I don’t get much effect from opiates when we are prescribed them and don’t get how folks can become addicted to them. I think different folks just react differently. I guess we are lucky to have the meh effect from them.

        • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          I wonder if it’s the higher percentage of Neanderthal DNA.

          Smokers also require more pain meds, not just the opiates but the -caines as well.

          I have strawberry blonde hair and smoke. Any pain meds and me is like, ‘turn it all the way up Dentist’ or ‘yea, Vicodin does nothing. That bottle is like 2 doses.’

          I landed me a debilitating repetitive injury from work, and besides taking a lateral move, I needed pain meds just to function. The pain would spread from my shoulder/back/arm up my neck into my brain. I’m talking rapid onset migraines where I’d go blind.

          First time, I was driving.

          Not fun.

          I didn’t know that could even happen. Regardless, I needed help to work, then without them Id withdraw and be unable to work. Right down the slippery slope I went. Got to a point where I just said no more, idc what happens, took 10days off work, sat at home with 30 boxes of donuts, various one step meals, 20 gallons of choc milk and otter pops. Told myself, and everyone else, i was sick. I refused to make any decisions besides what to eat that was in the building for the entire time as I considered my mind compromised and sus.

          I am exceptionally willful tho and can compartmentalize like it’s the ADHD Olympics. Results will vary. I do not recommended the experience. 0/10. Dengue fever in a foreign land where I speak 0.5% of the language was more pleasant.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        I was glad it took away the pain, but yeah, they don’t do anything for me that would get me addicted to them. The constipation is the worst part.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
      32·
      1 year ago

      The difference is need. Itll work the pain first, what’s leftover will work towards the high

      Good health/no pain= to the moon 🚀

      Also, I’m happy it helped you. It can be fantastic in a clinical setting.