New York's drug crisis is part of the US border fiasco

New York City's worst public-health crisis is growing.

More than a ton of fentanyl was seized statewide in 2021; in 2020, the NYPD found that some 80% of all heroin it tested contained the drug.

While they may save lives at the margins, they will likely cost lives overall by helping solidify the lawless culture around drug use in New York City, encouraging addiction and lowering quality of life.

In 2020, 29,000 Americans aged 15 to 34 died of drug overdoses.

Overall, fentanyl-involved deaths are outpacing those from prescription opioids by 550%. Look at teens, and the picture grows darker still: OD mortality rose 94% for drug users aged 14 to 18 from 2019 to 2020, and looks to have gone up another 20% in 2021.

This poison flows into the country through our porous southern border via the trafficking efforts of Mexican cartels using raw Chinese materials to synthesize the drug.

Which casts the news that the Biden administration has hit another insane milestone - the fastest pace of border encounters in at least the last two decades, with more than 1 million since October - in a new, terrifying light, since agents stopping illegal migrants aren't stopping illegal drugs.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/23/new-yorks-drug-crisis-is-part-of-the-us-border-fiasco/