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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year ago

U.K. cracks down on synthetic opioid 10 times stronger than fentanyl causing overdoses in Europe

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U.K. cracks down on synthetic opioid 10 times stronger than fentanyl causing overdoses in Europe

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year ago
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As authorities clamp down on fentanyl distribution and the amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan decreases under the Taliban, criminal enterprises have turned to a deadly alternative option.
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    Didn’t the taliban use opioid sales to finance themselves? Why are they cracking down now?

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      Nope! They sold opiates. Opiates derive from plants, usually poppies, while opioids are synthetic. The Taliban doesn’t need/hasn’t really needed synthetic opioid production, because Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium poppies.

      If anything, in the new era of lab-made chemicals that fry your brain like an egg the first time you hear about them, the Taliban are likely falling behind in the drug trade.

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        Opiates are opioids. Opiate:opioid::square:rectangle

        Opioids are a class of drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid

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        Sorry I misspoke, I was referring to opiates from poppies not synthetics.

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      No they burned down those fields (again).

      The Americans keep invading, growing, and exporting most of the worlds opium for Johnson and Johnson

      The TALIBAN is more anti-opiates than the states by a long shot

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        J&J sources thebaine from the Tasmanian variant. They don’t mess around with the old morphine and codeine bases anymore to make their opioids.

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          What are you trying to convey here? The history lesson above was after 2001.

          Johnson and Johnson still use imperialism for their supplies, and they still push high-dose opiates on dumb Americans to keep you on the prison system.

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