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.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    I would think we would learn from the first war on drugs. Support of addicts yes, try to police it away no. Counselors not cops.

    • flooppoolf@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      I am sorry but there is no counseling for the crazies that have eroded their brain away with drugs. There is only prevention for future generations.

      There’s no price you could pay me to rehabilitate the people that throw feces and yell at passerby’s. Too much risk.

      • flooppoolf@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        A big reason addicts turn to street drugs is because of the healthcare systems “blacklist” for drug abusers. Fixing that would help the ones that became addicted because of pain relief false advertising, get the help they need.

        But what do we do about the people that have reached the point of no return?

        The conversation changes dramatically when you have seen the depravity inside a State of California Public Restroom.

        • flooppoolf@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          No mate. We need to have places dedicated for the permanent care of these people. As in live-in psych wards. I’m tired of seeing streets covered in needles and homeless people shitting in broad daylight.

          Some people consider this as locking them up. But what else? You want to fight over who gets the park bench spot with the rabid man?

          • HubertManne@kbin.social
            3·
            10 months ago

            I mean we used to have psychiatric facilities but due to abuses they just sorta got rid of them (well and the lower taxes god) instead of regulating them better.

        • flooppoolf@lemmy.world
          11·
          10 months ago

          There’s some great YouTube videos about a Mexican forced rehabilitation group that picks up people that are fucking up in life and humiliates them and forces them into rehab. 

          Later on they seem to be liking sobriety and appreciative, so I don’t see what’s wrong with picking up a couple of junkies nodding out in public, giving them narcan to ruin their day, and then kick the living recovery into them, then force them to eat nothing but beans and rice for 3 months. Then keep them on a short leash.

          It’s full of camaraderie and think that it’s a good starting point for those that couldn’t find purpose elsewhere.