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Where does fentanyl come from? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you google this question, “where does fentanyl come from?” You get a results page filled with “China” and “Mexico”. I have a suspicion that the fentanyl “pouring over our southern border” narrative is mostly BS and that it’s coming from inside the house, but can anybody point me towards the facts? Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some drugs actually do come from China and Mexico.

However, you shouldn't accept the reactionary framing of the drug narrative. Availability of drugs is not what makes people do drugs. Americans are doing drugs because the quality of life in America is hellish. People are doing drugs as a form of escapism from the shitty existence of American life.

Reject the premise that stopping the flow of drugs will make less people do drugs. Less people will do drugs when they have a better life, access to healthcare, higher wages, safer workplace, solidarity with other workers, etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah exactly, chuds say China is sending drugs intentionally to destroy America

It's a disgusting fascist lie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Excellent points, and definitely aligns with my own thoughts, I just figured with how much the media hounds on this being a border issue that they’re probably also lying about it in the first place / the stuff is being manufactured here to begin with.