The rash of drug overdoses you’ve been reading about are due to synthetic drugs, mostly from Mexico and China. Donny’s rudeness and stupidity on trade is making things much worse. It’s his idiot base that is being effected the most. Ignorance and belligerence have consequences, never good ones.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...721_story.html
Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and a drug policy expert at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said
the United States is poorly positioned to have an impact in China’s illicit supply of fentanyl because of the ongoing feud over tariffs between the Trump administration and Beijing.
“They could help us, but they’re not going to,” said Humphreys, who spent a year in the Obama administration’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The way to enlist the Chinese is “carefully, respectfully, and not on the front page or on Twitter.”