DEA Admits Total Failure To Fight Heroin In One Stunning Tweet
DEA HQToday’s heroin at the retail level costs less & is more potent than the heroin that DEA encountered two decades ago. http://go.usa.gov/c7FbJ
“Today’s heroin at the retail level costs less & is more potent than the heroin that DEA encountered two decades ago,” the agency declared on Twitter. The DEA also linked to a Department of Justice document on America’s “heroin epidemic.”
Despite decades of seizures, raids, community work, and billions of tax payer dollars, the DEA admits that heroin being sold in the US is cheaper and stronger than it was 20 years ago.
“The government arrested tens of millions of people and wasted more than a trillion dollars yet drugs are still cheap, potent, and readily available in every community,” said Bill Piper, Senior Director of National Affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance.
“It is good that the DEA is admitting that supply side efforts have failed; would be even better if they admitted that they have done more harm to communities than the drugs themselves.”
According to the DEA, drug overdoses eclipse deaths from car crashes and firearms, accounting for more then 47,000 deaths in 2014 or approximately 129 per day. More than half of these overdoses involved the use of heroin of a prescription opiod.
The number of people who used heroin at least once over the course of the year jumped from 373,000 in 2007 to 914,000 in 2014. Most of the heroin that ends up in the US originates in Mexico and Colombia.
The past several years have seen increased cultivation and heroin production, with a subsequent rise in trafficking from Mexico to the US, says the DEA.
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Chippy, 100% agree. Their failed “war on drugs” is harming and killing innocent people who just want some relief from their physical pain.
Yeah it’s all fine and dandy that they now admit that they are incompetent but their misdirection towards legally prescribed medications has caused more damage then they could possibly imagine. The campaign against Opiates was and is a CYOA move by the DEA who enlisted the CDC and their anti opiate doctors to give false and undocumented results for public review. This has to be the worst and most criminal act against a group of people since the sundowner laws of the mid 20th century.