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Are_we__sure ago

This is evidence free.

And this is incontrovertibly incorrect.

the opioid explosion was directly responsible for the meth invasion.

Meth has been going on a lot longer than the recent opioid explosion. They have two different causes.

Meth took off, because in the early 1990's a guy found out to take a what was a complicated chemistry equation and simplify so that it was almost foolproof and uneducated bikers could do it without blowing themselves up. What used to be produced in a "superlab" could be produced in a garage or a motel room. He also didn't keep this secret. And you could buy the ingredients at Walmart. They changed the law so you now can't buy this stuff in bulk. The law that prohibited this tells you how long this has been going on, it's called Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005.

The opioid epidemic has a different cuase. It is result of the introduction of Oxycontin, a drug which was only introduced in 1996. The active ingredient that gets you high has been around for decades but doctor's didn't prescribe because it tended to get you hooked. Oxycontin was a patented time release method that gave 12 hours of pain relief. Problem was if you smashed up the pills and snorted them, you could get that high all at once. Because of this problem, the makers of Oxycontin changed the formula. It's not harder to get that high. So users switched to heroin which is much cheaper than Oxy.

There were a 130,000 emergency room visits for meth in 2004. Oxycodone wouldn't surpass that until 2009.

Then with the crackdown in 2005, meth went down for a while. We are now seeing a resurgence. It's especially since 2011. This probably due the Mexican cartels getting into the meth business in a big way, importing the chemical directly from China. There was a famous case a decade ago of a Chinese businessman arrested in Mexico. This giant pile of money was in his house https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9EVXJJowMns/WAcW13DgajI/AAAAAAAAehk/hnkBmR3OPTY8a1iOoAkl4MfY7WYi6dDYQCLcB/s1600/ye%2Bgon%2Bmoney%2B2.jpg

He made it not selling meth, but selling the precursor chemicals. A year after he was arrested the TV show Breaking Bad about making meth debuted. They did a giant pile of money scene themselves

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u5BMl5lZeFg/hqdefault.jpg

Blacksmith21 ago

I hate to tell you but you are 100% wrong regarding synthetic opioids. Do your research on the China White problem in the mid-80s.

Your post shows your inexperience, ignorance and an overall air of being confidently wrong. Consistently.

You don't know shit.

Are_we__sure ago

See my other post. My awareness of heroin predates the mid 80's. I know all about Chinese Rocks even how the song got written. The punk scene in New York was big into heroin. Johnny Thunders would play New York, but he wouldn't perform until the audience hooked him up with some dope.

This currently opioid epidemic is about the spread of heroin into places that never had historic heroin markets. Oxycontin was nicknamed Hillbilly Heroin for a reason.

Blacksmith21 ago

Yawn.