China t was legal to manufacture fentanyl up until early march. Fortunately our state department and others, you heard from omdc earlier helped to change that so we can get cooperation to reduce the flow t hasnt reduced yet but we have a ways to go. Fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin. One gram is like 50 grams of heroin. It can be shipped in the mail. Shipped in commercial carriers. Fancy way of fedex, dhs, not Postal Service but other ways you ship packages across borders. It is shipped directly to the states or it is shipped to the canada and mexico. The wall street journal, you know theyre all about business, reminds us this is a business. The raw products cost about 1000 for fentanyl can be sold on the streets in the u. S. For about a million dollars. Thats pretty big profit margin and that motivates a lot of behavior. So i think as much as we can focus on the supply we better do something to help people in recovery so there is less of a demand for these products. I wan
Epidemic, hosted by the oxford house, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. Back in 1971, this postage stamp came out. This is a path we have been down before. The whole question about drug abuse and issues that resolve around opioids. Today were going through the Opioid Crisis, facts and experiences, but what we need to remember, one of the keys to remember is that in the midst of this Opioid Crisis, in the midst of the numbers of individuals who are dying as a direct result of their use of opioids, we have to keep in mind that this still represents a comparative drop in the bucket. 50,000 lives lost last year due to opioids, no small number. However, we have to compare that to the 80,000 lives lost due to alcohol and the 500,000 lives lost due to cigarette smoking. Remember, the number one leading cause of death in people with addictive disease and recovery is smoking related illness. So the major issue for us to deal with remains tobacco. The second most significant issue for us to