bags attractive to children and even if the children are not the intended target which i do believe they are and as far as like addiction rates, they could take them. accidentally if they find them they re at someone s house a neighbor s house we just don t know. the one thing i think lawrence we have to be concerned about here is that the dea literally ceased 36 million individual doses of fentanyl tablets between may and september of this year alone. 40% of those tablets i want you to think about this have enough fentanyl in each individual tablet to literally kill a grown man. so if you re a child or anyone in your family gets ahold of one of these pills and takes them there s a good chance they will die like playing russian roulette to make matters worse the chinese government is well aware that they are sending precursor chemicals to mexico. that allowing the drug cartels
we are happy to give them a shout-out as well but if you were telling people what to do to help, what would you say? oh, it looks like really at this point we need molly: we lost bill. oh. we did lose bill, sorry about that. bill fantastically work and hopefully people can help aid him. incredible story. that s happening in florida. two years after decriminalizing hard drugs, oregon is struggling with one of the highest addiction rates in america. a psychologist weighs in on controversial measure. that s next.awso and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget,
hard way their experiment at decriminalizing hard drugs isn t quite having the results they hoped for. addiction rates in the states are still sky-high. breaking news correspondent trace gallagher joining us with more. hey, kevin, good evening. i think be careful what you wish for is a big part of the story. 2020 oregon voters passed the drug addiction treatment and recovery act to emphasize treatment. it eliminated criminal consummate is for possessing low levels of illicit drugs. heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, even fentanyl. two years later, oregon still has an astonishing drug addiction rate, among the highest in the country. fatal overdoses are now at an all-time high. more than 1,000 dead last year alone. critics say their primary goal of the bill is failing because very few people are getting treatment. according to stanford university professor keith humphreys, who
drug position tickets because most people fail to appear in court. what we are seeing is as it drug possession has been decriminalized, property crimes have increased. so to have violent crimes. $350 million from canvas tax revenue to fund a services but none of them of the money is going to expand treatment. it was never designed to reduce our addiction rates, it was never designed to deal with our crisis, it was always meant to deal with the war on drugs. the money is going to harm reduction, things like needle exchange club peer counseling, supportive housing, and narcan to revive a person who is overdosing. it s not about getting treatment, what it s about his meeting people and getting people out into the streets and doing outreach for folks and getting them the life-saving drugs. you can t save somebody if they overdose and die. even that has failed as drug overdose deaths in oregon soared
need to of treatment has been going down. we need to reverse both those trends. we are need to reverse both those trends. we are getting a better understanding of mental health in the country is in fact it is to mental health, anxiety, trauma, child abuse, loneliness must be added to that list as well. is there more help available for mental health and does not have a direct impact on the addiction rates that we are seeing? the impact on the addiction rates that we are seeing? we are seeing? the issue is very much linked. we are seeing? the issue is very much linked. the we are seeing? the issue is very much linked. the people - we are seeing? the issue is very much linked. the people lose i we are seeing? the issue is very i much linked. the people lose control or get much linked. the people lose control or get into much linked. the people lose control or get into compulsive patterns of behaviour. or get into compulsive patterns of behaviour, abuse of alcohol or other dru