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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by Buldak on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:13PM (#17137184)
We the West, I guess.
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by mc32 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:20PM (#17137240)
Everyone in the “West” or just some? Are native Americans also included in this reckoning? What about Russians and Bulgarians?
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by derefr on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:37PM (#17137413)
We the Commonwealth, plus the American colonies that had recently departed the Commonwealth but still maintained their trade relations from when they were in it.
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by mc32 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:40PM (#17137445)
I think it fair to say that while the British instigated it, it was mostly a metcantilist class who traded without the imprimatur of either government. In terms of who got rich, it was mercantilists from the US and the continent as well as local Turk and Indian producers.
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by kgwgk on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:38PM (#17137424)
No-one who is alive, anyway.
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by HillaryBriss on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:33PM (#17137377)
Native American communities have indeed been affected severely, but it's not clear how much is due to this particular type of Fentanyl:

AP news reported recently that: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures indicate the increase [in opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2015] was higher for Native Americans than any other group ..."

https://www.apnews.com/81eb3ae96c2b4f6aae272ec50f0672d2

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