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Byker
Jun 9, 2018, 12:30:09 PM6/9/18
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"Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:pfgebp$lth$1...@os.motzarella.org...
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/ybr8yjd4> thestar.com
>
> Opioid epidemic deadlier than Vietnam War ..
In Putinland it's deadlier than the Great Patriotic War. Russkies now have a
lot more than vodka to escape reality with: https://tinyurl.com/yd5gvnrw
http://drugwarfacts.org/region/russia
https://recoverynavigation.com/drug-epidemic/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-decimating-russias-women
https://gizmodo.com/why-russias-heroin-addicts-are-going-through-hell-1787892724
https://pulitzercenter.org/project/russia-hiv-aids-heroin-drug-abuse-intervention-youth
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-21/do-russians-have-key-solve-americas-opioid-crisis
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/1128/Russian-answer-to-opioid-epidemic-Cold-turkey
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Putin’s Losing War: Russia’s Massive, Worsening Drug Problem
Chris Roberts
July 12, 2017
Even if the president’s son wasn’t taking meetings with Russians offering to“help”
with our democratic process, there would be much in common between Vladimir
Putin’s Russia and Donald Trump’s United States.
Like us, Russia sports a heroin crisis spiraling out of control—and like us,
tough-guy posturing, a reliance on retrograde, fantasy-world “science,” and
confronting drug use like an armed conflict with a hostile foreign power has
made the situation far, far worse.
But take heart, Americans: We are already great, at least in comparison to
the grotesque situation unfolding around drug use in Russia.
Drug use exploded in Russia following the downfall of the Soviet Union—which
makes total sense, given the socialist state’s guarantee of jobs and
education for whoever wanted it, a development that hews closely to the
United States, where methamphetamine and opiates both have taken over areas
with limited economic opportunity. The number of drug addicts increased by
almost 10 times in the first 18 months of post-Soviet “economic freedom.”
Since then, the situation has only deteriorated.
Russia has the highest number of heroin users per capita of anywhere in the
world, according to a Brookings Institution review. Since 2001, more than
500,000 Russians have died from heroin overdoses, according to official
Russian sources, and Russia now has a needle-sharing AIDS crisis. (That,
too, will be familiar: A small town in Indiana along the Kentucky border
suffered a similar explosion in HIV infections, after the local health
clinic—a Planned Parenthood, as it happened—closed down.)
It should be noted that Russia’s substance-abuse problem isn’t limited to
illegal drugs.
Last winter, dozens of people died after drinking an “alcohol substitute”
marketed as, among other things, “bath oil.” (In America, we’re much more
advanced: We peddle dangerous chemicals as bath salts.)
The Russian attitude towards drugs is one of crime and punishment: Using
drugs is a crime, and it will be punished.
As VICE reported last year, typical “treatment” for drug addicts can involve
being told your body will combust if drugs are used and being flogged with a
whip. It’s not unheard-of for Russian drug police to raid a nightclub,
piss-test everyone inside and throw the chemical violators in prison.
And guess what? It’s not working!
Remember “krokodil,” the ersatz heroin that turns users’ skin hard and scaly
before it rots away? (Of course you do.) It’s a Russian innovation.
In Moscow, one of the world’s most expensive cities and home to one of the
world’s biggest concentration of billionaires, you can see this market at
work in parks, alleys and other public places. At night, these areas are lit
up like “fairy forests,” as if overwhelmed by an invasion of fireflies, as
the Moscow Times wrote last week.
Instead, it’s the blue light from smartphone screens, as drug users fish
around in flowerbeds, looking to pick up zakladki: industrial-strength
plastic bags filled with drugs, ordered over the dark web in Silk Road-like
marketplaces, paid for in Bitcoin and outfitted with small magnets so they
can be affixed to metal fixtures like drain pipes and light poles.
In America, policing dark web drug marketplaces has proven next to
impossible.
After federal drug agents arrested Silk Road’s founder in a San Francisco
public library in 2013 and shut down the website, several imitators popped
up—with more drugs, available for less money.
Most of the fentanyl that could be poisoning every street drug available in
the U.S. is sold via the dark web, according to law enforcement. In
Russia—well, they can’t figure it out either, leading the people who live
near the parks where the zakladki are dropped to take matters into their own
hands, patrolling the dead-drop zones and taking photographs of the seekers
and their cars, sharing the results with police.
As anyone who’s tried to single-handedly overpower market forces can tell
you, that’s a losing prospect.
Russia’s narcotics industry made $25 billion in profit in 2016, according to
the nation’s drug czar. Profit. One typical man involved in the drug trade
interviewed by the Moscow Times sounds all too familiar: Formerly
unemployed, living in a decaying old industrial town, where his role as a
logistical middleman—like an Amazon fulfillment worker—brings him a monthly
salary 30 times the average take-home pay of honest working stiffs.
And there’s honor here, also hewing to supply and demand: Drug purity and
quality is zealously controlled. When one speed producer employed by
“Sergei” starting cutting his pills with aspirin, Sergei fired him.
Last year, Vladimir Putin responded to this crisis by disbanding his version
of the DEA, dissolving the Federal Drugs Agency and relieving its leader, a
longtime Putin associate named Viktor Ivanov, of his official duties. Was
that where Trump got the idea, since abandoned, to dissolve the White House
Office of National Drug Control Policy?
Either way, there is plenty else both countries would recognize.
In Russia, there is near religious opposition to needle exchange.
In America, it’s still forbidden to accept federal money and run
common-sense harm-reduction programs like needle exchange.
The official Russian attitude on drugs isn’t unlike denying climate science
and insisting climate change is a hoax, said Daniel Wolfe, director of the
International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society
Foundations, in comments to VICE.
We in America wouldn’t know anything about that…
https://tinyurl.com/ybj64opq
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/ybr8yjd4> thestar.com
>
> Opioid epidemic deadlier than Vietnam War ..
In Putinland it's deadlier than the Great Patriotic War. Russkies now have a
lot more than vodka to escape reality with: https://tinyurl.com/yd5gvnrw
http://drugwarfacts.org/region/russia
https://recoverynavigation.com/drug-epidemic/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-decimating-russias-women
https://gizmodo.com/why-russias-heroin-addicts-are-going-through-hell-1787892724
https://pulitzercenter.org/project/russia-hiv-aids-heroin-drug-abuse-intervention-youth
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-21/do-russians-have-key-solve-americas-opioid-crisis
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/1128/Russian-answer-to-opioid-epidemic-Cold-turkey
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Putin’s Losing War: Russia’s Massive, Worsening Drug Problem
Chris Roberts
July 12, 2017
Even if the president’s son wasn’t taking meetings with Russians offering to“help”
with our democratic process, there would be much in common between Vladimir
Putin’s Russia and Donald Trump’s United States.
Like us, Russia sports a heroin crisis spiraling out of control—and like us,
tough-guy posturing, a reliance on retrograde, fantasy-world “science,” and
confronting drug use like an armed conflict with a hostile foreign power has
made the situation far, far worse.
But take heart, Americans: We are already great, at least in comparison to
the grotesque situation unfolding around drug use in Russia.
Drug use exploded in Russia following the downfall of the Soviet Union—which
makes total sense, given the socialist state’s guarantee of jobs and
education for whoever wanted it, a development that hews closely to the
United States, where methamphetamine and opiates both have taken over areas
with limited economic opportunity. The number of drug addicts increased by
almost 10 times in the first 18 months of post-Soviet “economic freedom.”
Since then, the situation has only deteriorated.
Russia has the highest number of heroin users per capita of anywhere in the
world, according to a Brookings Institution review. Since 2001, more than
500,000 Russians have died from heroin overdoses, according to official
Russian sources, and Russia now has a needle-sharing AIDS crisis. (That,
too, will be familiar: A small town in Indiana along the Kentucky border
suffered a similar explosion in HIV infections, after the local health
clinic—a Planned Parenthood, as it happened—closed down.)
It should be noted that Russia’s substance-abuse problem isn’t limited to
illegal drugs.
Last winter, dozens of people died after drinking an “alcohol substitute”
marketed as, among other things, “bath oil.” (In America, we’re much more
advanced: We peddle dangerous chemicals as bath salts.)
The Russian attitude towards drugs is one of crime and punishment: Using
drugs is a crime, and it will be punished.
As VICE reported last year, typical “treatment” for drug addicts can involve
being told your body will combust if drugs are used and being flogged with a
whip. It’s not unheard-of for Russian drug police to raid a nightclub,
piss-test everyone inside and throw the chemical violators in prison.
And guess what? It’s not working!
Remember “krokodil,” the ersatz heroin that turns users’ skin hard and scaly
before it rots away? (Of course you do.) It’s a Russian innovation.
In Moscow, one of the world’s most expensive cities and home to one of the
world’s biggest concentration of billionaires, you can see this market at
work in parks, alleys and other public places. At night, these areas are lit
up like “fairy forests,” as if overwhelmed by an invasion of fireflies, as
the Moscow Times wrote last week.
Instead, it’s the blue light from smartphone screens, as drug users fish
around in flowerbeds, looking to pick up zakladki: industrial-strength
plastic bags filled with drugs, ordered over the dark web in Silk Road-like
marketplaces, paid for in Bitcoin and outfitted with small magnets so they
can be affixed to metal fixtures like drain pipes and light poles.
In America, policing dark web drug marketplaces has proven next to
impossible.
After federal drug agents arrested Silk Road’s founder in a San Francisco
public library in 2013 and shut down the website, several imitators popped
up—with more drugs, available for less money.
Most of the fentanyl that could be poisoning every street drug available in
the U.S. is sold via the dark web, according to law enforcement. In
Russia—well, they can’t figure it out either, leading the people who live
near the parks where the zakladki are dropped to take matters into their own
hands, patrolling the dead-drop zones and taking photographs of the seekers
and their cars, sharing the results with police.
As anyone who’s tried to single-handedly overpower market forces can tell
you, that’s a losing prospect.
Russia’s narcotics industry made $25 billion in profit in 2016, according to
the nation’s drug czar. Profit. One typical man involved in the drug trade
interviewed by the Moscow Times sounds all too familiar: Formerly
unemployed, living in a decaying old industrial town, where his role as a
logistical middleman—like an Amazon fulfillment worker—brings him a monthly
salary 30 times the average take-home pay of honest working stiffs.
And there’s honor here, also hewing to supply and demand: Drug purity and
quality is zealously controlled. When one speed producer employed by
“Sergei” starting cutting his pills with aspirin, Sergei fired him.
Last year, Vladimir Putin responded to this crisis by disbanding his version
of the DEA, dissolving the Federal Drugs Agency and relieving its leader, a
longtime Putin associate named Viktor Ivanov, of his official duties. Was
that where Trump got the idea, since abandoned, to dissolve the White House
Office of National Drug Control Policy?
Either way, there is plenty else both countries would recognize.
In Russia, there is near religious opposition to needle exchange.
In America, it’s still forbidden to accept federal money and run
common-sense harm-reduction programs like needle exchange.
The official Russian attitude on drugs isn’t unlike denying climate science
and insisting climate change is a hoax, said Daniel Wolfe, director of the
International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society
Foundations, in comments to VICE.
We in America wouldn’t know anything about that…
https://tinyurl.com/ybj64opq
Byker
Jun 9, 2018, 2:07:32 PM6/9/18
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"Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:pfh32f$lua$1...@os.motzarella.org...
> making you believe "Russia's dying" (the more frantically Byker dumps such
> cultist fake news).
I figured that would push Oleg's hot button <snicker>...
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Putin's Losing War: Russia's Massive, Worsening Drug Problem
>
> The further America declines, the more desperate your minders are in
>> Putin's Losing War: Russia's Massive, Worsening Drug Problem
>
> making you believe "Russia's dying" (the more frantically Byker dumps such
> cultist fake news).
I figured that would push Oleg's hot button <snicker>...
Byker
Jun 9, 2018, 4:49:05 PM6/9/18
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"Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:pfhdqr$sg1$1...@os.motzarella.org...
>
> In Russia, in the recent years, drug overdoses kill about 8,000 per year.
According to Russia Today, Putinland is ahead of us by leaps and bounds:
100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>
> In Russia, in the recent years, drug overdoses kill about 8,000 per year.
According to Russia Today, Putinland is ahead of us by leaps and bounds:
100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
M.I.Wakefield
Jun 9, 2018, 4:59:58 PM6/9/18
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"Byker" wrote in message
news:cbmdnQFFI5ihoIHG...@supernews.com...
And if you have a strong stomach, google "krokodil drug" to see what shit
the Russians are taking.
news:cbmdnQFFI5ihoIHG...@supernews.com...
the Russians are taking.
Byker
Jun 9, 2018, 5:07:00 PM6/9/18
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"M.I.Wakefield" wrote in message news:pfhf4d$4fi$1...@dont-email.me...
"Byker" wrote in message
news:cbmdnQFFI5ihoIHG...@supernews.com...
>
>> According to Russia Today, Putinland is ahead of us by leaps and bounds:
>>
>> 100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
>> https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>
> And if you have a strong stomach, google "krokodil drug" to see what shit
> the Russians are taking.
NASTY shit: https://tinyurl.com/yaek4hf3
>>
>> 100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
>> https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>
> And if you have a strong stomach, google "krokodil drug" to see what shit
> the Russians are taking.
Small wonder it never caught on over here...
Byker
Jun 9, 2018, 5:24:14 PM6/9/18
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"Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:pfhfuo$a51$1...@os.motzarella.org...
Byker the Shithead, <news:x4WdnSQl6KGroIHG...@supernews.com>
> various causes where drug use directly and indirectly contributed, or was
> suspected to have been contributed, to the cause.
Then there is this matter of alcohol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_in_Russia
Bootleg booze also takes a toll: https://tinyurl.com/yaa844ey
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians/
Byker the Shithead, <news:x4WdnSQl6KGroIHG...@supernews.com>
>> "Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:pfhdqr$sg1$1...@os.motzarella.org...
>>>
>>> In Russia, in the recent years, drug overdoses kill about 8,000 per
>>> year.
>>
>>>
>>> In Russia, in the recent years, drug overdoses kill about 8,000 per
>>> year.
>>
>> According to Russia Today, Putinland is ahead of us by leaps and bounds:
>>
>> 100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
>> https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>
> It's a disparate number obtained by estimation of the number of deaths by
>>
>> 100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
>> https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>
> various causes where drug use directly and indirectly contributed, or was
> suspected to have been contributed, to the cause.
Then there is this matter of alcohol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_in_Russia
Bootleg booze also takes a toll: https://tinyurl.com/yaa844ey
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians/
Oleg Smirnov
Jun 9, 2018, 5:27:36 PM6/9/18
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Byker the Shithead, <news:cbmdnQFFI5ihoIHG...@supernews.com>
as such is the cause. For the US it's 63000, for Russia it's about 8000,
for the whole EU - also about 8000. Taking into account population size,
Russia's number is much higher than for the EU but still much less than
for the US.
It's a disparate number obtained by estimation of the number of deaths
by various causes where drug use directly or indirectly contributed, or
was suspected to have been contributed, to the cause.
The number of deaths due to drug overdoses includes cases where overdose
as such is the cause. For the US it's 63000, for Russia it's about 8000,
for the whole EU - also about 8000. Taking into account population size,
Russia's number is much higher than for the EU but still much less than
for the US.
Oleg Smirnov
Jun 9, 2018, 5:32:14 PM6/9/18
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Byker the Shithead, <news:9M6dnSYkYrLk2IHG...@supernews.com>
> "Oleg Smirnov" wrote in message news:pfhfuo$a51$1...@os.motzarella.org...
>>>> In Russia, in the recent years, drug overdoses kill about 8,000 per
>>>> year.
>>>
>>> According to Russia Today, Putinland is ahead of us by leaps and bounds:
>>>
>>> 100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
>>> https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>>
>> It's a disparate number obtained by estimation of the number of deaths by
>> various causes where drug use directly and indirectly contributed, or was
>> suspected to have been contributed, to the cause.
>>>> year.
>>>
>>> According to Russia Today, Putinland is ahead of us by leaps and bounds:
>>>
>>> 100,000 lives annually: Drug death toll triples in Russia
>>> https://www.rt.com/news/171348-russia-drugs-death-crime/
>>
>> It's a disparate number obtained by estimation of the number of deaths by
>> various causes where drug use directly and indirectly contributed, or was
>> suspected to have been contributed, to the cause.
The number of deaths due to drug overdoses includes cases where overdose
as such is the cause. For the US it's 63000, for Russia it's about 8000,
for the whole EU - also about 8000.
as such is the cause. For the US it's 63000, for Russia it's about 8000,
for the whole EU - also about 8000.
> Then there is this matter of alcohol:
You have enough for today.
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