The Fentanyl Flood
Just a few hours ago the (Detroit Area) Metro Narcotics Enforcement Team carried out search warrant in the City of Belleville, Michigan and found 435 grams of methamphetamine and 104 grams of fentanyl along with guns.
Belleville, Michigan, has a beautiful name. It is also a beautiful city. About 3,391 people live there. Locally and, nationally, the city is known for the Annual Belleville National Strawberry Festival. Main Street is not only a traditional Main Street it is an active and bustling business center.
During discussions about this drug raid someone reminded me that cold medicines can produce methamphetamines and other chemicals things like bath salts. This is a very serious issue. Fentanyl continues to be a killer in the United States also.
What is Fentanyl?
Fentanyl has 'precursors' which are the elements to make them - like the cold medicine is kind of a precursor to some forms of methamphetamines.
The fentanyl precursors are made in factories in China and India and shipped or smuggled to Canada and Mexico. They are either used immediately to make fentanyl or smuggled into the United States where they are combined to make fentanyl.
Distribution occurs from major ports and some medium sized cities. Detroit and this area is a major if not the largest distribution hub in the United States. From this area the drugs are distributed throughout the Midwest, down to and from the Gulf Coast states, southeast into Est Virginia and further and southwest to the Great Plains states and further.
Previously Wuhan, (Covid-19 Wuhan) was a major producer of fentanyl and other opioids. They are still made there along with the pre ursors.
The chemical companies that make the drugs and precursors in China became so rich and powerful they bought cosmetics companies to legitimize their activities and launder their money.
In 2021 over 100,000 Americans were killed by these chemicals. The total for 2022 is moving towards exceeding that and may top 106,000.
These drugs are mixed in with other drugs so the problem is very strange.
The attitude that drugs can be used for leisure makes the problem worse. It doesn't help that it is a lucrative, mostly tax-free business.
Arrests are made but many do not go to trial with either charges dropped or reduced or prison time commuted to a lighter sentence.
The best defense at this time is to be aware of the dangers, be abled to identify use or drug activity and to report anything suspicious.
With each drug death many other people are impacted. It is tragic, demoralizing and horrible. Many individuals suffer long term or permanent mental and/physical disability which also impacts many others.
Won't you help?
Here's a way to get help and give help!
FAN - Families Against Narcotics
Belleville, Michigan, has a beautiful name. It is also a beautiful city. About 3,391 people live there. Locally and, nationally, the city is known for the Annual Belleville National Strawberry Festival. Main Street is not only a traditional Main Street it is an active and bustling business center.
During discussions about this drug raid someone reminded me that cold medicines can produce methamphetamines and other chemicals things like bath salts. This is a very serious issue. Fentanyl continues to be a killer in the United States also.
What is Fentanyl?
Fentanyl has 'precursors' which are the elements to make them - like the cold medicine is kind of a precursor to some forms of methamphetamines.
The fentanyl precursors are made in factories in China and India and shipped or smuggled to Canada and Mexico. They are either used immediately to make fentanyl or smuggled into the United States where they are combined to make fentanyl.
Distribution occurs from major ports and some medium sized cities. Detroit and this area is a major if not the largest distribution hub in the United States. From this area the drugs are distributed throughout the Midwest, down to and from the Gulf Coast states, southeast into Est Virginia and further and southwest to the Great Plains states and further.
Previously Wuhan, (Covid-19 Wuhan) was a major producer of fentanyl and other opioids. They are still made there along with the pre ursors.
The chemical companies that make the drugs and precursors in China became so rich and powerful they bought cosmetics companies to legitimize their activities and launder their money.
In 2021 over 100,000 Americans were killed by these chemicals. The total for 2022 is moving towards exceeding that and may top 106,000.
These drugs are mixed in with other drugs so the problem is very strange.
The attitude that drugs can be used for leisure makes the problem worse. It doesn't help that it is a lucrative, mostly tax-free business.
Arrests are made but many do not go to trial with either charges dropped or reduced or prison time commuted to a lighter sentence.
The best defense at this time is to be aware of the dangers, be abled to identify use or drug activity and to report anything suspicious.
With each drug death many other people are impacted. It is tragic, demoralizing and horrible. Many individuals suffer long term or permanent mental and/physical disability which also impacts many others.
Won't you help?
Here's a way to get help and give help!
FAN - Families Against Narcotics
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