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      Uh there’s Krokodil (actually it turns out most of what you read is the production not the literal chemical desomorphine causing most of the issues you hear about)

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      Also “relatively few drugs come from Venezuela into the U.S. The synthetic opioid fentanyl causes the most fatalities in the US, but is mainly produced by Mexican cartels from Chinese raw materials.”

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        In terms of mortality it’s not even close. Alcohol alone kills nearly twice as many people as all other drugs combined.

        Tobacco, 5x as many.