A Public Health Emergency of National Concern (PHENC) - At the current rate of increase in synthetic opioid deaths – mainly Fentanyl – one million Americans killed in the next 5 years

Aug 12, 2023

The article below from the excellent site Zero Hedge, has this chart.

Twin Crises Rattle America: Suicides And Drug Overdoses Hit Record Highs | ZeroHedge

In the same way that adverse events from C19 are under-reported to VAERS, crime is also under-reported and probably so are Fentanyl overdoses.

The main focus of the Zero Hedge article is the suicide rate. How much of this is due to the “woke” agenda of fear porn about climate change or the psychological pressures brought about by the need to be one of 50 genders is important. I doubt any individual that sees life as an explorable privilege to be enjoyed is suicidal.

We can argue about the term “overdose” and whether it is actually “poisoning”, but the issue remains – in the last 25 years the number of drug deaths has increased by a factor of more of 5 from under 20,000 to over 100,000.

Of the 100,000, 70,000 are synthetic opioid overdose deaths – that is, fentanyl.

Any correlation with the surge in illegal immigrants since the installation of the Biden junta is not coincidental in my view. It simply confirms the role of the DNC in global criminal rackets, including human trafficking and legalised and illicit drugs.

Out of interest, Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center has this to say:

“The FBI publishes annual data on crimes that have been reported to the police, but not those that haven’t been reported. The FBI also looks mainly at a handful of specific violent and property crimes, but not many other types of crime, such as drug crime. “

“BJS, for its part, tracks crime by fielding a large annual survey of Americans ages 12 and older and asking them whether they were the victim of a crime in the past six months. One advantage of this approach is that it captures both reported and unreported crimes. But the BJS survey has limitations of its own. Like the FBI, it focuses mainly on a handful of violent and property crimes while excluding other kinds of crime.”

From here in 2017 Many U.S. Crimes Go Unreported, Unprosecuted - The Crime Report

“Only about half of the violent crimes and a third of the property crimes that occur in the U.S. each year are reported to police. Most of the crimes reported don’t result in the arrest, charging and prosecution of a suspect, reports the Pew Research Center. In 2015, 47 percent of the violent crimes and 35 percent of the property crimes tracked by the Bureau of Justice Statistics were reported to police. “

That is the crime reporting rate, which precedes the prosecution rate.

From here published in 2018

Most US Crimes Go Unsolved and Many Victims Don't Contact Police (insider.com)

“Federal government data from 2018 show that just 46% of all violent crimes reported to police were "cleared" with an arrest, and 18% of property crimes were cleared.
Beyond that, only an estimated 43% of people who were the victims of violent crimes reported the incidents to police.

So, or violent and property crimes, 40% are reported to police, and between 18% and 46% of crimes were solved – probably ALL cases brought by police were successful in court, but that still leaves around 75% of violent crimes and a staggering 94% of property crimes unsolved and unprosecuted.

My bet is that the numbers for the reporting and successful prosecution of drug crimes are similar to the figure for property crimes.

All this is before the downgrading of many property crimes to misdemeanours. For example, shoplifting with a value under 1,000 bucks is not even investigated in Democrat run cities. Is shoplifting a property crime? How about defending your own property from armed criminals?

So when we see charts like this one, from here:

US Crime & Justice Statistics and Data Trends: crime rates, gun background checks, corrections, and more | USAFacts

Prison population down from 7.7 million in 2007 – we should also reflect that decriminalizing crimes is the reason, not that societal harms are reducing.

So, how about fentanyl crimes.

As mentioned, the rise in fentanyl poisonings is likely directly proportional to the surge of around 7 million illegal immigrants over the last several years. This is probably supplemented by underground tunnelling all the way into border towns or just outside them – maybe the cartels have built subways by now. It only takes, say, one in 20 of the illegal immigrants crossing undetected (another 2 million “got-aways” on top of the 7 million “encounters” officially recorded by border officials?) for there to be 100,000 drug mules smuggling fentanyl whilst being run by cartels.

MSM outlet reported this last year:

The fentanyl trip: How the drug is coming to America - ABC News (go.com)

“Under pressure from the U.S., Chinese suppliers have had difficulty sending the pills straight to America, experts said. However, those suppliers have come up with an alternative plan that includes more pit stops.”

“Investigators said Chinese drug suppliers send the ingredients to make fentanyl to cartels in Mexico. After creating the fentanyl, either in raw powder or pill form, the cartels would ship them across the border in trucks, according to investigators.

Last year more than 11,000 pounds of fentanyl made its way into the U.S. and more than half of it came right through the border of Mexico and San Diego, according to investigators. That was more than double the amount of fentanyl seized at the border compared to 2020, investigators said.”

A CDC report from 2019 – which desperately needs updating said this:

Racial/Ethnic and Age Group Differences in Opioid and Synthetic Opioid–Involved Overdose Deaths Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years in Metropolitan Areas — United States, 2015–2017 | MMWR (cdc.gov)

“From 2015 to 2017, nearly all racial/ethnic groups and age groups experienced significant increases in opioid-involved and synthetic opioid–involved overdose death rates, particularly blacks aged 45–54 years (from 19.3 to 41.9 per 100,000) and 55–64 years (from 21.8 to 42.7) in large central metro areas. The increased involvement of synthetic opioids in overdose deaths is changing the demographics of the opioid overdose epidemic.”

Bottom line:

At the current rate of increase, there will be more than a million synthetic opioid deaths in the US over the next five years.

This is a public health emergency of national concern (PHENC) primarily caused by an open borders immigration policy.

The CDC already describes this as an epidemic.

Onwards

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