Pretty crazy that spiked drugs are still "overdoses" when it's clearly poisoning by whoever mixed them. It's attempted murder, not that prosecution would lead anywhere. It's demonizing the user instead of the supplier.
E: I guess manslaughter if the cook didn't know what they were doing, but didn't deliberately mix something in. In the case of fentanyl, it's very deliberate, though.
Problem #746 that would be fixed by legalizing
This is fucking sad. Fuck the war on drugs
Maybe. But this may have nothing to do with that. I used to work at a shady hotel. We had 3 people die in the span of 6 hours, completely unrelated to each other. All because they bought the same batch of heroin. I'm not an expert in how heroin is made, but the way it was explained to me is that the heroin was made with filler. A substance that acts as heroin, but doesn't get you as high. It's a cost cutting measure so the dealer can make twice as much money with the same supply.
Well what the users do is they do the heroin, DON'T get high, and so they do MORE heroin than they usually do......and then their heart stops because it can't handle so much heroin.
So, this may not be anything government related. This may be more capitolism related.
It’s cut with fentanyl and worse.
The reason there is any cut at all, especially fentanyl and related substances (what you're talking about) is because of the war on drugs which is the fault of our (capitalist) government.
The reason it’s cut is mainly because of capitalism and it being illegal. Imagine if alcohol was still illegal, we’d be getting bad moonshine with methanol still in it.
But fentanyl is cheaper and more readily available than opium so capitalism is gonna go do it’s thing. Until it’s legalized and regulated heroin will never just be heroin unless you grow the opium poppies yourself and process them into heroin yourself.
I’d also argue with my tinfoil hat on that the introduction of fentanyl to the heroin supply was intentional, and that are sudden opiate epidemic blamed of pills just happens to coincide with the war on terror - and afghanistan is where heroin comes from. I’d argue the US government brought heroin back into popular use and the Chinese government decided it would finally get long awaited revenge for the opium wars. Both governments get to kill our undesirables. Win win for the elites, less moochers living off the system in their eyes.
I'm starting to think smoking crack might just be more trouble than it's worth.