Biden: 'Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year'

[khansaheeb]

I said if you want to claim that a 0.18% homeless rate in the US somehow equates to widespread homelessness I can certainly claim that poverty is widespread in China because more than 0.18% of the Chinese population is considered poor.

There are like 20,000 cities/towns in the US.
If you think the homeless are walking the majority of their streets then you are far more ignorant of reality than I can possibly imagine.

It's only an issue in a very small percentage of the US. Mostly because they congregate in certain cities.

Add that to 600K who go missing in the USA every year on average, 40K murders on average and 3 times as many injured, millions sleeping in cars, trailers and tents; Year-End 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings— default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 324,237 U.S. properties in 2022, up 115 percent from 2021 but down 34 percent from 2019, before the pandemic shook up the market. Foreclosure filings in 2022 were also down 89 percent from a peak of nearly 2.9 million in 2010; More than 41,000 people in Jefferson County are living in poverty, don't know where that is, guess it is just one county out of 3142 in the USA. Almost 700K crimes reported in 2022, which means since many crimes are not reported actual number of crimes could be more than a million. Drugs and Alcohol are definitely root problems of many countries.

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[prashantazazel]

We use it for almost every surgery. It is a great drug.
Never seen a fentanyl addict though. American drug users are a sophisticated bunch.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

40K murders

..and where do you think most of those 40,000 murders occur?

Mapping gun violence: A closer look at the intersection between place and gun homicides in four cities

www.brookings.edu

"...What these enforcement-based approaches fail to recognize is that the recent rise in homicides is more nuanced than it appears. Rather than a widespread dispersal of gun violence within cities, the increases in gun homicides are largely concentrated in disinvested and structurally disadvantaged neighborhoods that had high rates of gun violence to begin with."

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In other words the general streets in the US are not more unsafe...the streets in these specific areas however are.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Her regulators took too long shutting her down.

Wouldn't have taken this long in the UK.

What is the point you are trying to make?

That her giving prescriptions that make no sense to children is because a kid is not the actual recipient.

The guy in the TV show was a pharmacist who noticed her prescriptions seemed odd...that's how she got caught. She got greedy and thus sloppy about making sure nothing attracted unwanted attention.

 

[FuturePAF]

Anyone seen the pharmacist on Netflix?

I was shocked at the Liberal use of opiates in the US. We do not see anything like that here in the UK and pharmacist's here would simply refuse issuing inappropriate prescriptions.

I recall a dose of oxycodone for a child exceeding common doses we use for adults here....

In the US, good prescribers will have all their prescriptions have documentation; ICD-10 codes; the exact diagnosis. Depending on the diagnosis, doses can vary.

Yes, I saw that series. It was really bad for a good 15 years. Now it is more controlled, which is why people are buying fake pills from the street and many of these pills are pure fentanyl. First time mistakes for people experimenting with party drugs can end in tragedy very quickly.

Even unintentional exposure by law enforcement is a high risk these days.

There are even worse drugs appearing in the country, potentially resistant to Narcan.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

In the US, good prescribers will have all their prescriptions have documentation; ICD-10 codes; the exact diagnosis. Depending on the diagnosis, doses can vary.

Yes, I saw that series. It was really bad for a good 15 years. Now it is more controlled, which is why people are buying fake pills from the street and many of these pills are pure fentanyl. First time mistakes for people experimenting with party drugs can end in tragedy very quickly.

Even unintentional exposure by law enforcement is a high risk these days.

There are even worse drugs appearing in the country, potentially resistant to Narcan.

I assume everything is electronic.

The days of handing over a piece of a paper to a corner store pharmacist just isn't going to work anymore.

 

[FuturePAF]

I assume everything is electronic.

The days of handing over a piece of a paper to a corner store pharmacist just isn't going to work anymore.

It is electronic, but there are diagnosis codes that need to put in to properly bill for the care.

 

[Stranagor]

I never argued that homelessness was a widespread issue in China. Go yap at somebody else.

I'm the one that is saying Chinese people like you have a backwards picture of the US since you spent most of your time in 400+ year old cities like NYC and you somehow think that is typical of life and infrastructure in the US.

For instance here's a 100 year old city..it looks nothing like NYC. 100 years ago there was basically nothing here (just like in many parts of China 30 years ago).

2 hours of driving...OMG look at the widespread dilapidated US city infrastruture.

150 years ago northEast cities like NYC had most of the US population...but now they don't. People have moved on to live in all corners of the US in newer cities. You are completely fixated on the old ones and there is nothing that can be done to undo your fixation.

Even many of the people whose parents used to live in old northEast cities have now moved to new modern homes in their suburbs (including myself) .

I believe another big issue here is the question of media reporting and individual caring. In unfree countries, everything is subject to approval. One cannot report freely, ask questions freely, face the official narrative freely.

Censorship and control go extreme. Absolute power does not rest in people, so, people develop apathy. Everything feels plastic or fake.

Without referring to any specific country, for example, if the dear leader wants to visit a certain locale by car, all the nasty and dirty stuff along the road, (such as trash dumps, dirty, smelly creeks, ruins, broken infra) is walled off, and on the walls they put slogans and pictures beforehand.

In those societies, deep seated apathy is well set in. No one cares. One can see human excrement near bushes (especially in villages nearby cities) and one daily sees people public urinating in cities (for instance all the street cleaners on electric tricycles or community guards at the gates because lack of public toilets) at every step, and in places you cannot walk on the sidewalk without stepping on someone's spit and phelgm, but, literally, no one cares. Further, one goes to a newly built shopping mall, enters the restroom, and sees horrible, disgusting things that normally belong to underdevelopment.

Yet, no one takes picture of any of these. No one makes a video and post online. No one complains. No one gives a flying care about anyone. Those places are societies of absolute non-caring.

This must be largely because people in those places are politically castrated. Their popular will is stunted, controlled and adjusted according to the will of the One. So, people know they cannot change anything of, by and for themselves. Of course, nice things such as new roads happen. But, they happen outside the sovereign power of the people.

So, when comparing societies, these political and social differences must be taken into consideration.

 

[Stranagor]

and where do you think most of those 40,000 murders occur?

More than half of nearly 40000 gun related deaths are suicides, by the way.

What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record, according to the latest available statistics from the CDC.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[beijingwalker]

I'm the one that is saying Chinese people like you have a backwards picture of the US since you spent most of your time in 400+ year old cities like NYC and you somehow think that is typical of life and infrastructure in the US.

Do you know how many years old of the cities of Beijing and Xi'an?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Do you know how many years old of the cities of Beijing and Xi'an?

Are you saying you'd prefer Beijing would go back to the way it looked and operated in 1930?

It didn't look like this

Now you are stuck with it. You are now going through the same crazy shit old US cities had to do..like shoehorning in elevated roadways due to unforseen increases in traffic that were not in the city's design.

NYC was designed around the horse and buggy...not cars. Support for cars was shoehorned/hacked into it after it was already full of high-rises.

Meanwhile some of the newer cities in the US were mostly designed after cars became popular.

 

[beijingwalker]

Are you saying you'd prefer Beijing would go back to the way it looked in 1930?

Not really, unlike US cities, Chinese cities, including very ancient ones, got infra upgrading year on year.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Not really, unlike US cities, Chinese cities, including very ancient ones, got infra upgrading year on year.

Why don't you fix Beijing by tearing down some of the buildings so you can rework the roads to remove some of the ugly shoehorned in elevated roadways?

The reality is you are basically stuck with it.
If you had planned it well you could have stuffed it all underground so it wouldn't be such an eyesore.

Boston spends a fortune to remove its ugly 1950's elevated highway that hacked a path between high-rise buildings (designed in an era before cars were commonplace) by replacing it in 2000 with an underground tunnel.

 

[beijingwalker]

Why don't you fix Beijing by tearing down some of the buildings so you can rework the roads to remove the ugly shoehorned in elevated roadways?

Comparing to Beijing's history, New York is still an infant, so don't tell me New York's crappy infra is due to its old history.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Comparing to Beijing's history, New York is still an infant, so don't tell me New York's crappy infra is due to its old history.

Name all the streets in Manhattan going East to West or West to East that can handle 4 lanes of traffic like the video of Beijing.

New York City was designed around the simple horse and buggy not cars. The skyline was already dominated by tall multi-family buildings by the time cars became common.

They are stuck with their narrow street designs of yesteryear with little off street parking for multi-family units and have to work around it.