Apparently the supply of fentanyl is lessening and that which is available has been "stepped on" or weakened. Yet another win for the Biden/Harris team. "I head from Ohio, I heard from West Virginia, and I heard from Maryland and Arizona, and they’re all telling me the same thing: some sort of supply shortage on the street," he said." "There are skeptics, people who question this trend, but some of the top drug policy analysts in the U.S., as well as experts with close ties to street fentanyl markets, believe the data shows a major disruption in the deadly fentanyl supply chain." "It's a development that many drug policy experts would not have imagined," said Vanda Felbab-Brown at the Brookings Institution, who studies international criminal organizations that make and smuggle fentanyl" "She said drug gangs appear to be trafficking less fentanyl and are also "adulterating" or weakening the potency of the fentanyl being sold. "Everyone has been caught by surprise by the extent of the adulteration of fentanyl," Felbab-Brown said. "And even more significantly by claims in certain places in the U.S. that there is not enough fentanyl available." https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s...q-mexico-china?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the article, but in order the label disruption a ‘win’ for Biden/ Harris would mean you would first have to lay blame on them for allowing it to flow for so long in the first place. Some have been pointing out and reporting this ‘manufactured crisis’ for years. Presto change-o article appears 30 days out from an election
Another win for the Biden/Harris team? Over 110,000 died in the US of drug overdoses in 2023. Yeah, that is another big win for the Biden administration.
Much like illegal border crossings, there were never any drug overdoses in the US before 1/20/2021. And any Biden success is greeted with, "Why wasn't it done yesterday?"
perhaps the cartels realized that killing all of their customers wasn't a good long term business strategy? or maybe it is the indictments from July against these Chinese suppliers Three Chinese Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Five Employees Charged with Conspiring to Manufacture Fentanyl (dea.gov) Brooklyn, NY - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, two indictments were unsealed that detail criminal conspiracies by companies and employees based in China to manufacture and distribute fentanyl in the United States. This prosecution is among the first ever in the United States to charge Chinese chemical manufacturing companies with supplying precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl to the United States. The first indictment charges Anhui Rencheng Technology Co. (Rencheng), Ltd., Anhui Moker New Material Technology Co., Shutong Wang and Shifang Ruan with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, manufacture of fentanyl, and other related offenses. In addition, the indictment charges those same defendants, as well as Xinyu Zhao and Yue Gao, with illegally concealing their activities, including through customs fraud and introducing misbranded drugs into the United States marketplace. The indictment also charges Rencheng, Wang, and Ruan with conspiracy to distribute butonitazene, a controlled substance. The second indictment charges Hefei GSK Trade Co., Ltd, also known as “Hebei Gesuke Trading Co. Ltd.” and “Hebei Sinaloa Trading Co., Ltd.”, and Ruiqing Li with similar offenses, including conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, manufacture of fentanyl, conspiracy to distribute a List I chemical, distribution of a List I chemical, customs fraud conspiracy, introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, and distribution of metonitazene, a controlled substance. Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General, Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Lisa O. Monaco, United States Deputy Attorney General, and Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Keechant, L. Sewell, Commissioner, New York City Police Department, and Steven A. Nigrelli, Acting Superintendent, New York State Police, announced the charges. or is the result of the drug war going on now that the US has two of the top bosses in custody'? Civil war in the home of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan | Drugs News | Al Jazeera It all started on the morning of July 25, according to a letter released by the lawyer of the cartel’s leader, Ismael Zambada Garcia, better known as “El Mayo”. El Mayo was perhaps the most powerful man in the cartel, especially after the US incarceration of his fellow founder and kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo”, in 2019.The letter claims that on that day in July, El Mayo was heading to a meeting with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, El Chapo’s son and a member of the Sinaloa cartel’s younger generation. The two men were rivals, but El Mayo says that he also trusted Guzman Lopez because he had known him “since he was a young boy”. They had come together at a local events centre, El Mayo’s letter said, to try and help resolve a local political dispute. But according to his letter, things quickly took a different turn: “As soon as I set foot inside of that room, I was ambushed. A group of men assaulted me, knocked me to the ground, and placed a dark-colored hood over my head. They tied me up and handcuffed me, then forced me into the bed of a pickup truck.” He was bundled onto a small plane, he says. But he wasn’t alone.Guzman Lopez was the other passenger, and physically restrained him with zip ties, El Mayo’s letter said. After a short flight, they landed in El Paso, Texas, where US agents were waiting to take both of them into custody. When El Mayo’s lawyer, Frank Perez, released the letter on August 10, it sent shockwaves through Culiacan. Many drew the obvious inference: Guzman Lopez had given up El Mayo to make a deal with US authorities for himself, and possibly his brother, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who is also in US custody.Several journalists in Culiacan doubt El Mayo’s version of events; specifically that a man who had evaded capture for decades – and who had always been so careful – could have been so easily hoodwinked.
That means the price will increase and even fewer cars in these parts will be able to retain their catalytic converters
The numbers are still way too high. But overdose deaths decreased in 2023 for the first time since 2018. U.S. Overdose Deaths Decrease in 2023, First Time Since 2018 Meanwhile, it's interesting that almost no matter the subject, Trump has a lie about it. No, Kamala Harris does not want to legalize fentanyl
By the way maybe the reduced availability is the result of this agreement. Biden, Xi's 'blunt' talks yield deals on military, fentanyl Biden and Xi agreed China would stem the export of items related to the production of the opioid fentanyl, a leading cause of drug overdoses in the United States. "It’s going to save lives,” Biden said, adding he appreciated Xi’s “commitment” on the issue. Under the agreement, China will go directly after specific chemical companies that make fentanyl precursors, a senior U.S. official told reporters. He vowed to "trust but verify" Chinese actions on the drug
My daughter struggled with addiction for years. On April 15th 2023 at age 45 fentanyl took her life. No one who hasn’t experienced the agony of a relative or close friend, especially a child with a serious addiction, knows how much it tears you up inside. The war on deadly drugs is real.
