children at risk. seizing rainbow colored fentanyl pills. kids as young as 13 years old dying every day in their house. it not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use. flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in water treatment plants. nasa will try to launch the artemis moon rocket after scrubbing monday s blast off. nasa plans to return astronauts to the moon by the middle of the decade. there ain t nobody we turned this cornfield into a party steve: live from new york city, this is fox & friends on this, the final day of aug august 2022. right now 70 degrees, going for a daytime high 84. will there was a shower. when we walked in the building we felt the allergy stuff. i looked it up, ainsley. ainsley: ragweed? steve: ragweed is moderate very high dust and dander. ainsley: i don t know what i m allergic to but something. i need some of your sir tech or whatever you take. steve: allegra. brian: every seven years your body rot
thousand labs and it was 90% of them two. places in mexico where these two cartels are. let me tell you what the secret is here that we haven t said before. it s all about costs. because heroin, heroin costs about $6,000 to make a kilogram. fentanyl makes costs $200. do you know why? it s completely synthetic, you don t need the poppy plant. you don t need to go from opium. all those poppy fields are drying up because you can use chemicals. illicit chemicals from china 10-foot lab garbage cans. big jugs of chemicals. they can t restrict them. china has tried to restrict them not hard enough, obviously, and then they can all be made locally. all flowing from mexico across the border. it s inexpensive easy to represently case and all because of mainly these two calgts, what can we do about it? it s actually hard first of all, the precursor elements are used for research.
are literally being flooded with these pills. you know, in ohio, i ll give you a shocking statistic, which is in 1997, if you look at prescribing practices, there were seven pills prescribed for every person in ohio. fast forward just ten years or so, and now there s a 900% increase. 67 pills prescribed for every man, woman, and child who live in the state. what s happening is, karen, those pills are sitting in people s medicine cabinets, waiting for next thanksgiving or new year s or christmas where the nephew or niece or cousin comes over, looks in the cabinet, pours the pills in their pocket, and they re on their way to being a heroin addict. it s a huge, huge problem. and then, just what andre said, heroin costs about 10% of what the pills cost. you get hooked, then you can t afford to keep taking those pills. so all the sudden, you re out and you re becoming a heroin addict. we have a horrible, horrible problem. andre, what i found shocking
context you llize that and realize one of the reasons people are using heroin is because they have come habit tu waited to pharmaceutical drugs and have discovered that street heroin is cheaper than trying to box oxycontin. that s certainly the case on long island where a hit of heroin costs, what, $10? there is no question that heroin is easier to get, much cheaper and these days much more potent. we are seeing an increase, as a country, the number one public health crisis and public safety issue is prescription drug abuse. there is no question about it. more americans are on prescription drugs than ever before in our country s history. new york just passed a law last year called i-stop, that s going to, in real time, be able to monitor the prescriptions written for oxycodone and other opiate drugs that are so
has never been more important. energy lives here. state troopers discovered over 1200 bags of heroin. they were branded obamacare brand heroin. they found them inside a car after a traffic stop. others were labeled kurt cobain. four people inside the car face drug trafficking charges. obamacare heroin costs much more than they say it it does. former nba star dennis rodman held tryouts for a north korean team. against a team of former nba players. the january 8th game is part of north korean leader kim jong un s birthday celebration anna.