{"id":1418074,"date":"2022-04-04T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418074"},"modified":"2022-04-04T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:15:09","slug":"cdc-overdose-deaths-soar-from-fentanyl-flowing-from-mexico-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-overdose-deaths-soar-from-fentanyl-flowing-from-mexico-china\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Overdose Deaths Soar from Fentanyl, Flowing from Mexico, China\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-overdose-deaths-soar-from-fentanyl-flowing-from-mexico-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418074&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">American drug-related overdose deaths are soaring from fentanyl, a powerful synthetic drug that originates from China and enters the United States\u2019 unsealed border with Mexico, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time,\u00a0more than 100,000 Americans had died\u00a0of drug overdoses over a 12-month period,\u201d the Associated Press (AP)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fentanyl-deaths-keep-rising-states-look-for-solutions-d3ccd6edfdc6516b3ea07943c7e46544\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAbout two-thirds of the deaths were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, heroin or prescription opioids.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In some states, possession with intent to distribute less than 14 grams of fentanyl is a two-year prison-worthy offense. According to the\u00a0Drug Enforcement Agency, the drug is so potent that 14 grams can constitute 700 deadly doses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEnding Title 42 expulsions will signal to cartels and migrants alike that our southern border is now wide open \u2014 inciting even more violence, more trafficking, and more lawlessness,\u201d Governor Abbott said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bW9lBLwkmb\">https:\/\/t.co\/bW9lBLwkmb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1510760432319057929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The AP also acknowledged that fentanyl originates from China, then moves through Mexico, and thereby enters the rustbelt states. The states most impacted by fentanyl are West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio \u2014 all rural states with dominant white populations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Texas Military Department said that from March 2021 through earlier this month, its troops near the border confiscated more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilograms) of fentanyl,\u201d the AP reported. \u201cBy comparison, federal authorities reported confiscating about 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilograms) in 2021 \u2014 still a fraction of what entered the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration does not seem worried about the fentanyl crisis. In response to a January letter from 16 attorneys general to\u00a0Secretary of State Antony Blinken that <a href=\"http:\/\/myfloridalegal.com\/webfiles.nsf\/WF\/CPAL-CAUSYC\/$file\/Web+Link.pdf\">demanded<\/a>\u00a0more pressure on China and Mexico to stop the soaring inflow of fentanyl, Biden receded Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under Biden\u2019s direction, will terminate Title 42 in May. The law allows authorities to turn away migrants for reasons of slowing the spread of coronavirus. The receded law could allow more than\u00a018,000 illegal crossings per day \u2014 a pace that works out to over 6.5 million migrants per year, the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2022\/04\/01\/nyt-biden-ending-title-42-means-18000-illegal-crossings-per-day-at-border\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;For the first time, more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period. About two-thirds of the deaths were linked to fentanyl\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fentanyl is coming across our southern border, but Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t care.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YI9U4PaPFo\">https:\/\/t.co\/YI9U4PaPFo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NathanBrandWA\/status\/1511006801378033675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In March, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/ago.wv.gov\/Documents\/2022.03.16%20Letter%20to%20Attorney%20General%20Garland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demanded<\/a>\u00a0Biden\u2019s Attorney General Merrick Garland enforce laws against fentanyl trafficking with severe penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">\u201cFentanyl is killing Americans of all walks of life in unprecedented numbers,\u201d Morrisey told the AP. \u201cThe federal government must respond with full force, across the board, using every tool available to stem the tide of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American drug-related overdose deaths are soaring from fentanyl, a powerful synthetic drug that originates from China and enters the United States\u2019 unsealed border with Mexico, according to the Center for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}