Got drugs in my pocket and don't know what to do with them.

This year has been a disaster for The US Justice Department. Fentanyl has become a scourge upon the North American and Global plain. Over 100,000 Americans have died, with 65,000 directly related to the use of fentanyl in its many forms. That is just the USA. Lets look at one Canadian Province and the effect of Fentanyl upon it. Approximately 83% of illicit drug toxicity deaths in B.C. in 2020 had extreme Fentanyl concentrations. So out of @1,600.00 deaths 1,288 showed fentanyl’s presence. A further 49 suspected illicit drug deaths connected to fentanyl between june-november 2020. Approximately 70% of those dying in 2020 were aged 30-59 years old, with 89% between the ages of 19-59.Interestingly males accounted for 82% of all deaths. We have a Drug Pandemic here. Young and old, rich and poor, homeless and housed, no matter the race. (BC Corners Service).

Covid-19 with all its other forms, has exasperated the multiple growth of this Opioid Pandemic. Our neighbor’s often suffering from some form of stress, mental anguish, physical injuries, financial or personal misfortune are willing to search out medication for pain relief or simply recreational use. Problem society now has is that what used to be one particular drug of choice often now has small but deadly infused opioids within it. Yes your black market ganja/mota/stink weed, acid hit, cocaine or heroin or even crystal meth are reshaped, with the use of this potent opioid.

Fentanyl is an synthetic opioid, there for it is manmade in laboratories. It does not rely upon opium poppy for its production. It is produced through a number of restricted chemicals with reactions requiring specialized skilled manufacturers. The full formula for fentanyl is N-(2-phenethyl)-4-piperidinyl-N-phenyl-propanamide. Quite the mouthful eh? The pharmaceutical industry developed fentanyl derivatives by manipulating the basis molecule to create various potencies. That is what pharmaceutical firms did legally. Whether intentionally or not, this industry saw a huge profit margin for itself and sold opioids in mass. Over the years the establishment recognized its addicted nature and limited opioid prescriptions to a bare minimum. Damage was done however as the number of addictions to this drug increased and suddenly many patients were expected to be weened off the drug or go cold turkey. Well you can blame the Pharmaceutical Industry and your local health administrations/governments for the creation of the massive illicit drug trade in opioids.

Cartels, organized crime and their governmental within China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Syria, Cambodia and Eritrea entered the vacuum and began to recruit scientist and establish illegal laboratories through out the world, including the US and Canada. These illegal organizations were supported by nations who gave them territory, provided illicit chemicals and a blind eye with a promise of protection for revenue or a piece of the action. China is the globes largest producer of these restricted chemical in the world. The illegal organizations already have transportation and distribution networks established long ago. What can the authorities do to harm and stop these organizations you may ask? Well very little.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation along with The RCMP, Scotland Yard, many police forces and national military organizations act upon shipment movements and capture product, labs and personnel often, but certainly not enough times. The cocaine and Heroin business have shown us that police capture only 5-11% of what enters the various global market. Police are stretched thin while illegal organization have a ever increasing rolodex of recruits, friendly businesses and partners in crime.

If you are taking or thinking of partaking in an illegally provided opioid please consider the following and please think before you act.

1.The production of illegal opioids involve often toxic chemicals using binding agents that are numerous, often unknown and most deadly. Legal fentanyl is often crushed and added to a powerful mix of uncertain medication or chemicals. A cigarette can have over 75 different things within it to bind and effect the smokers addiction to buds. The stuff in opioids are more dangerous, addictive and life limiting. You don’t develop lung cancer using opioids, you just die of an overdose, go into paralysis/coma or become a brain dead zombie. That is the truth.

2.Illicit opioids are available in many different forms such as paper dots, pills or in a mix combined with just about anything. You want it, you can certainly find it. Illegal opioids are advertised and sold on social media Face Book and TicTok.. Sold as pain killers, stud makers, children’s medication too. British authorities noted that 7% of those who have died from opioids in 2020 were children under the age of 16. How they get the stuff? Either from the internet or their neighborhood dealers at school. Parents be aware the internet. Just as its porn have control over many men, so to it can it manipulate your youngsters too.

3. Addict to opioids happens quickly, often within a time of using 2-3 times. Like crystal meth there is a very strong chemical reaction within your brain manipulating your ambitions, needs, lusts, dreams towards that next hit of drugs. A child finds a pill in parents medical chest, a old fella uses a unknow med he finds, a injured person just needs relief not matter the cost. The cost can be your health, your mental state or your life. Dead-Dead-Dead. Finitely gone forever.

4. Your addiction is a slap in the face to all who love you, you love, could love in the future. Addiction is like a unstoppable dream that happens often without an end, only it does end, usually resulting in horrible realities. Nancy Reagan was strangely correct so long ago while on nation wide advertisements, looking you straight in the eye saying “Just Say No”! If you are a freedom loving person, step away from opioids since these drugs will colonize and destroy you. If you are using find local help immediately. There is no staining of your reputation. Seeking help is both wise and thoughtful.

Who is more courageous and to be admired? A person who willingly or unknowingly takes an opioid that could kill them, or a person who through realization seeks help for themselves or another person. Yah!

Drugs can be an escape, a means to alter your perception of reality, relieve your pain, seemingly alter your life’s situation. It can and does destroy many lives. Only approach the use of opioids through trained medical staff, and do so legally. I have seen many people die, and it is the deaths through drug use that are most brutal and horrific. Experience live, as our stay on earth is certainly limited.

Steven Kaszab

Bradford, Ontario

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Drugs in my pocket (The Monks)

I mean I ask myself, do I really need to be pharmaceutically high?

Staying awake for hours and watch my life go by.

Cause I’ve got drugs in my pocket and don’t know what to do with them.

Yah I’ve got drugs in my pocket, and I’m wearing me shoes out for them,

I’ve got drugs in my pocket, I’ll never need a cure for them.

Hey what you got for me Matte” Anything nice?

“Well I got some upper’s or I got some downer man

or I got some real hard grass all the way from Jamaica to sell in Brixton