• ronl2k@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    it allows for people to become addicted to and ruined by drugs, en masse.

    Stop exaggerating. The US fentanyl addict population is tiny compared to its overall population.

    • That’s not what Trump claims when he kidnaps world leaders, deports citizens, and creates a private army to intimidate the whole country. He calls it terrorism it’s so bad. Trump is America, what he says and does is all that matters right now for Greenland and the rest of the world. America created all these problems, that’s what we all see. It’s another American problem he wants to spread. There were no Americans or drug victims in the clip, just people demonstrating how fucked up America is for people who aren’t rich.

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      21 days ago

      https://www.addictiongroup.org/resources/fentanyl-statistics/

      https://drugabusestatistics.org/

      So thats roughly 3% of the population with opioid addiction and roughly 70% of od deaths involving fentanyl, within the last couple of years.

      Yeah, exact numbers are hard to come by, but if you think a million+ people doesn’t count as ‘en masse’, well then I guess I’ll try some of whatever you’re smoking.

      https://americanaddictioncenters.org/opioids/fentanyl/addiction-statistics

      The latest official count of prescription fent abusers I can find is about half a million, from 2021… but that doesn’t count people who get it without a prescription, which is quite a lot.

      And its also kind of fundamentally impossible to count homeless fent users.

      I would know, I have both been homeless and used to manage the data analytics of a large network of homeless shelters and assistance providers.