For more than a decade, the United States has faced a relentless and heartbreaking increase in fatal drug overdoses driven by synthetic opioids. A new analysis suggests this trend has suddenly reversed due to a major disruption in the global supply chain of illicit fentanyl. Published in Science, the study indicates that regulatory actions taken by the Chinese government, following high-level diplomatic engagement with the Biden administration, may be the primary driver behind this unexpected decline in mortality.
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- Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
Apparently you can just talk to other countries and ask them to help dealing with issues your country faces.
Good luck trying to talk to China now after Trump.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
The US could have also taken the Sackler family out to sea and disappeared them, but we didn’t. I think that would have been an appropriate punishment (if a little too lenient) for engineering a nationwide addiction crisis.
But your point stands.
The American brand is permanently tarnished, and it’s going to be a bummer to see the consequences unfold in the coming years.
- ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pubEnglish8 months
The coming decades, probably. This won’t be right in my lifetime.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
It’s wild to think that with the same amount of power Obama and Biden had, that Donald has completely rearranged the landscape of American politics, and once the post-tariff trade agreements kick in (rerouting supply chains around rather than through the US) and the BBB puts the kill shot on the poor and middle class, I think that the next year or two will be a clear historical demarcation line.
- ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pubEnglish8 months
I’m not sure about that. This presidency is more than 50 years in the making, involved a stolen vote, multiple billionaire co-conspirators, even Obama was like “how do we stop this??” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnhBrVb_aaw
They have all the authors of p25 behind them, the house, the senate, the judiciary, the POTUS, the whole shootin’ match.