Valuetainment - November 13, 2023


Fentanyl： The FDA Approved Drug Deadlier Than Heroin


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00:00:00.000 Do you see that picture on the screen? That's a pencil, and that's the lid on the tip.
00:00:03.740 That's how much fentanyl it takes to kill somebody. By the way, fentanyl is the leading
00:00:08.740 cause of death to people ages 18 to 45, 50 times stronger than heroin, 100 times stronger than
00:00:15.180 morphine. Over 150 people die on a daily basis from this, and what's most powerful about it is
00:00:20.600 you can potentially die from it by just touching it. There was a story done recently where a lawyer
00:00:25.000 from Cleveland is sitting doing an interview with 60 Minutes, and they're saying, why do you have
00:00:28.240 this person with gloves there? He says, because there's potentially the risk of dying if you
00:00:32.860 touch this thing. What's crazy about all of this stuff, it's FDA approved. Patrick, what do you
00:00:37.520 mean by this? Fentanyl is FDA approved. DeSantis, while he's talking and there's a debate going on,
00:00:42.100 tells a story of what happened in Florida. An 18-month-old baby dies in Florida because they
00:00:47.620 had an Airbnb, and the kid is crawling on the floor, and a report comes after this kid dies that the
00:00:52.900 baby had fentanyl in it, saying the fact that the previous people that stayed at this Airbnb
00:00:56.920 potentially left fentanyl, where the kid played with it, put it in their mouth like this died.
00:01:03.200 Fentanyl, the amount of people that are losing people due to fentanyl is increasing on a regular
00:01:08.960 basis, and it's an issue I'm going to get into because I want to learn about it, and I think
00:01:13.260 you need to as well. So if you give value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to
00:01:26.180 the channel. Let's get right into it. So what is fentanyl? Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid approved by
00:01:30.600 the FDA for the use of pain relief. Think about that. It's FDA approved. Marijuana has only killed
00:01:37.020 one person in the history of smoking weed. This is when you read the numbers, you'll always find one
00:01:41.560 person. I think she was 39 years old. I don't know what the numbers right now. It could be two,
00:01:44.580 but the number I know is only one, and it's not FDA approved, but fentanyl is FDA approved. The
00:01:49.940 origin, it was first developed in 1959 and introduced in 1960s as a intravenous anesthetic. It is legally
00:01:56.200 manufactured and distributed in the U.S. according to DEA.gov. Fentanyl produces effects such as euphoria,
00:02:02.900 pain relief, relaxation, sedation, confusion, drowsiness, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, urinary
00:02:07.440 irritation, and pupillary constriction. Some of you are probably watching and saying there's no way this
00:02:11.180 thing is FDA approved. Let me go Google it. You did that. You're back. Okay. Did you see it says
00:02:14.700 FDA approved? Crazy, right? So why is it FDA approved and how do they view this? Like how does
00:02:19.580 the FDA compare fentanyl to other drugs? The medical advantage of fentanyl is that it goes into effect
00:02:25.060 much more quickly than morphine and wears off much more quickly. For that same reason, it's much more
00:02:29.920 addictive than heroin. Typically, the high of heroin will last an entire day after shooting up, but
00:02:34.860 fentanyl wears off within a few hours, which means you need more of it when it's gone. Fentanyl is cheaper
00:02:39.040 to produce dose for dose than heroin, wholesaling it at approximately one-tenth of heroin's price
00:02:43.560 by weight. Given that fentanyl is approximately 50 times stronger than heroin, an equivalent dose
00:02:48.660 would therefore be $1,300 or $1,400 of the wholesale price of heroin. And you know who said
00:02:54.660 this? NIH.gov. That's fentanyl for you. So how do drugs in U.S. get classified? You know these
00:03:00.320 different schedules we keep hearing about, Schedule 1, 2, 3, 4? A Schedule 1 drug is a drug with no
00:03:06.820 currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. They are the most dangerous drugs of
00:03:11.740 all drugs scheduled with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence. Here's
00:03:15.700 what's on that list. Heroin, LSD, marijuana, cannabis, ecstasy, methoquelone, and peyote. Now
00:03:21.520 notice what's not in there, and that's fentanyl. By the way, later on, we're going to look at the data
00:03:25.560 out of 100,000 people, what percentage die when they use it. Wait till you see the numbers of how heroin
00:03:30.640 compares to fentanyl. But let me continue. Schedule 2. Drugs with a high potential for abuse would use
00:03:35.340 potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. These drugs are also
00:03:39.680 considered dangerous. Here we go. Number one, Vicodin. Then cocaine. Then methamphetamine. Then
00:03:44.600 methadone. Hydromorphone. Mepiridine. Then you got oxycontin. Then you have fentanyl. Then you have
00:03:50.060 dextradine, Adderall, Ritalin. Fentanyl is in the same category as Ritalin, Adderall, and all these other
00:03:56.760 drugs, but it's killing 150 people a day. And marijuana is Schedule 1, and it's only killed one ever.
00:04:04.100 Or somebody that was 39 years old, and they don't even know if that's exactly due to marijuana,
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00:05:25.020 and help. The link will be below. Schedule 3 is a drug with a moderate to low potential for physical
00:05:30.200 and psychological dependence. Schedule 3 drugs, abuse, potential is in less than Schedule 1 and
00:05:34.840 Schedule 2 drugs, but more than 4. So here we go. Testosterone, steroids, anabolic steroids, ketamine,
00:05:39.800 and then you have Tylenol and Codeine. Schedule 3. Schedule 4, lowest level, Xanax, Soma, Darvin,
00:05:46.020 Darvacet, Valium, Atevon, Talwin, Ambien, Tromadol. Those are some of the names on Schedule 4. By the way,
00:05:52.540 if I butcher the name, I'm not a doctor. I'm just giving you some of these drugs that are on this
00:05:55.780 list. So now when we go a little bit closer and study this, recreational drug toxicity. Look at
00:06:00.300 this chart here. At the top, fentanyl, 25%. Then heroin, then GHB. Then you have all of these other
00:06:06.660 things. Alcohol, cocaine, MDA, Codeine, you know, goes all the way down to DMT, LSD. Look what's all
00:06:11.920 the way at the bottom. Marijuana. Yet marijuana is a Schedule 1 and fentanyl is a Schedule 2. Whoever comes
00:06:17.120 up with this list, they're probably not following what's going on. Or there's other reasons for keeping
00:06:21.120 marijuana as one and fentanyl as two. I don't know. Maybe I'm just speculating. Let's continue.
00:06:25.080 So then the question becomes, so drug dealers want to keep making money. Why would they make a drug
00:06:29.500 like this that kills their customers? Isn't that dumb? Don't drug dealers want their clients to live?
00:06:34.020 That's a valid question. So if fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it? To lace illicit drugs.
00:06:39.520 According to Navarun Dasgupta, PhD, epidemiologist at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill studying
00:06:46.240 opioids, done correctly, lacing illicit drugs with fentanyl often creates a return stream of customers
00:06:52.480 because fentanyl is considered highly addictive. This is why fentanyl is often found in drugs like
00:06:56.600 cocaine, counterfeit Xanax, counterfeit Adderall, or other drugs not classified as opioids. Fentanyl is
00:07:03.280 good for business if you layer addiction into it. Interesting. So if in your life nobody's died from
00:07:09.640 fentanyl, it's probably not something that consumes your mind a lot. You don't think about it like,
00:07:12.720 why would I even be thinking about fentanyl? No one around me has died. It's probably just a propaganda.
00:07:16.060 Look at this data here. Overdoses from fentanyl. When you look at this from 2018 to 2021, look at
00:07:22.080 the average. In 2018, it was only 11% of drug poisoning deaths. But if you go to 2021, it's at
00:07:28.220 what? 44%. God knows where this thing's at today in 2023. We probably won't get those numbers till
00:07:34.640 second quarter of 2024, but I would assume it's more than 44% today. This next data is very scary. How much
00:07:40.080 fentanyl do we have in the US? You ready? The government, DEA, announced a seizure. They seized
00:07:45.320 over 379 million doses of fentanyl in 2022. You know what that is? That's enough to kill the entire
00:07:50.720 country. That's what they have today, by the way, of fentanyl. So now, the next question is,
00:07:55.380 so where does all this stuff come from? Who's selling it to us? Who's producing it? Who's making
00:07:59.060 it and why? Domestic black market fentanyl comes from theft, fraudulent prescriptions,
00:08:02.960 and distributions by patients, physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners,
00:08:06.960 and pharmacists. It's estimated China is responsible for over 90% of illicit fentanyl
00:08:11.640 found in the US. The majority of fentanyl is mass-produced in Mexico using chemicals from
00:08:15.760 China before being pressed into pills or mixed with other counterfeit pills made to look like
00:08:20.200 Xanax, Adderall, or Oxycodone. And if you look at this chart right here, this will tell you where
00:08:24.720 it's coming from. Look at China to the left. Look how many of it. You see the blue. It's going from China
00:08:29.320 to blue where? Canada. It's going from China to US, China to Mexico. And then if you look at from
00:08:34.180 Mexico, going back to India, it's circulating. You can kind of see what's going on and where
00:08:38.360 it's being produced and what states it's going to the most. But China's a party involved in this.
00:08:42.320 US is a party involved in this because we're receiving it. Then you got a little bit of
00:08:45.220 India. You got some Mexico going on as well. You got to hear this one here in China. Companies
00:08:48.860 making precursor fentanyl chemicals are subsidized by the government and receive tax breaks. What?
00:08:55.900 Tax breaks? Tax breaks. According to who? Investigative journalist and author Ben Westhoff.
00:09:02.020 So how is this impact in America? This is the impact. 42% of counterfeit pills tested for
00:09:07.620 fentanyl contain at least 2 milligrams of fentanyl. If you're not in the fentanyl business, you don't
00:09:12.640 even know what 2 milligrams means. I don't know what 2 milligrams means, but check this out. If you
00:09:15.880 look at this here, the harmreductionohio.org, you know what 2 milligrams is? It's 2,000 micrograms.
00:09:20.940 What is 2 milligrams all the way at the bottom? Death. You can die from these 42% counterfeit pills
00:09:26.260 that they're testing for fentanyl that contains 2 milligrams of fentanyl. It's freaking insane if
00:09:30.240 you think about it. So while we're going through this, we have to also be thinking about when is
00:09:33.820 the spike? Like when did it all of a sudden take off? Has this always been around you? Maybe you're
00:09:37.020 like, I remember partying 20 years ago. I never knew about this kind of stuff. Maybe even 10 years
00:09:40.720 ago. What does it look like, Pat? Here's fentanyl data on the amount of people dying, overdosing on it
00:09:47.480 from 1999 to 2022. Look at the chart. It's pretty flat from 99 till when? 2013. Then slight increase in
00:09:53.540 2014, 15, 16. Then from 16 climbs all the way up to 2022. And now it is responsible for nearly 70%
00:10:01.500 of all drug overdoses death in 2022. And by the way, as a parent, if you're wondering like who this
00:10:07.700 impacts the most, it's 70% there, but fentanyl responsible for 80% of overdoses deaths under 24
00:10:13.600 years old. So if you got somebody that you got kids, nephews, cousins, peers, this is really targeting
00:10:19.640 the youth of America. I remember earlier when I was talking about heroin versus fentanyl,
00:10:24.540 you're like, well, how many people die per 100,000 youths versus fentanyl of heroin? Here's
00:10:27.840 from Statista. This is from CDC. When you look at the colors, baby blue is heroin. The yellow is
00:10:33.860 prescription opioids, but red is synthetic opioids, which is what? Fentanyl. Okay. The blue out of
00:10:39.440 100,000 using it, 4.1 die. Heroin. Yellow is 4.9. Synthetic opioids, fentanyl, 17.8. This is not a
00:10:48.420 small little chart we're thinking about or looking at. This is massive. The impact of fentanyl. And so
00:10:53.380 if you're watching this, you're saying, well, Pat, what do I do about this? If you, if you're,
00:10:56.540 if you don't have kids, you've got friends, educate them. Everything's about education. Share
00:10:59.820 this with your peers, with your brother, with your sister, get everybody watching this to have your
00:11:03.840 kids watches. My kids are going to watch this video to learn for themselves because they need to
00:11:07.880 know this is real. And these things are happening when you and I are not around. Think about how bad it is
00:11:12.360 today that even the cartel, Sinaloa cartel from Mexico are noticing their customers dying.
00:11:18.420 Where they come out and they say the following, the Sinaloa cartel, the leading exporter of fentanyl
00:11:23.120 in the U.S. is prohibiting the production and trafficking of illegal opioids in its territory
00:11:27.260 after coming under increasing pressure from the U.S. law enforcement. Cartel members say,
00:11:31.680 this is a Wall Street Journal story from little over two weeks ago is what we're talking about.
00:11:36.220 October 16, two weeks ago. The Sinaloa cartel is telling their people, knock it off,
00:11:40.980 stop producing this because it's affecting so many people's lives. And by the way, China,
00:11:44.840 how do we hold them accountable? They're producing 80, 90% of this. And why are they sending it to us?
00:11:48.420 Why are they sending it to Mexico? And Mexico makes it so. Who is really the one to be held
00:11:51.940 accountable? Them? I mean, is this also impacting in China as much as it is impacting us? You know,
00:11:56.980 some say TikTok is used as a way to dumbify, if that's even a word, our youth in America.
00:12:02.800 Are they using these drugs to kill our kids in America? I mean, they definitely don't have a good
00:12:08.140 reputation of what they did the last three years with COVID and Wuhan lab and all the lies.
00:12:12.160 What's their motive with this? It's very deceptive. There's a lot of things I'm skeptical about
00:12:16.760 on what's causing with this in China. This is another thing that China's got to be held accountable
00:12:20.680 for because they're producing this and America's unfortunately being the beneficiaries of losing
00:12:25.820 their kids with the drugs coming up to U.S. through Mexico. The other question is, if you're a parent
00:12:29.860 or if you're somebody that lost somebody, you're like, how come this is not a Schedule 1? We a lot
00:12:33.100 of weird people right now that watch our content. Some people could be watching this, your congressmen
00:12:36.900 and women or governors or mayors or you're involved in politics or presidents. Why don't you put this
00:12:41.660 in Schedule 1? Why don't you categorically put this and make it clear to everybody so we all know?
00:12:46.700 Why don't you make a phone call and say, hey, any reason why fentanyl is not a Schedule 1 drug?
00:12:51.120 Why is it not? And why is marijuana? What are we doing with this category? How are you processing
00:12:55.900 your decisions when you're doing this? They also need to be held accountable. A statement needs to
00:12:59.240 be made with that. In 2018, one of the things Trump was doing was he was proposing death penalty
00:13:04.500 if you distribute fentanyl. Could that be something? But no matter what it is, somebody selling
00:13:09.020 fentanyl, the crime for that should be severe. I don't know about death penalty, but it should be
00:13:14.480 severe because practically this much usage of it could potentially kill anybody. When it comes down
00:13:19.520 to China, this could be a revenge thing that China is doing because when you think about China's
00:13:23.160 history, up until 1997, they were part of the British colony. They had like 150-year contract
00:13:27.640 because back in 1839, I think they had two opium wars because the Brits wanted the tea and this was
00:13:33.300 one of their ways of getting a bunch of people addicted to opium. And I think 90 out of 300 million
00:13:38.200 people of China's population was addicted to opium. So maybe this is one way of them getting
00:13:42.820 revenge. Who knows? Maybe I'm speculating a little bit too much, but China needs to be held accountable
00:13:46.600 on what it's doing to America. I think it is something to question. It is something that as a
00:13:51.600 president, whoever's taking a lead next, that conversation needs to be had and there needs to
00:13:55.340 be a bit of a level of accountability for someone to put on them. So again, whatever you do, you got
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