De 7 meest verslavende drugs op de wereldmarkt

Carey Flynn schreef op The Fifth Column (TFC) een artikel over de 7 meest verslavende drugs. Hoewel gericht op de VS, is deze lijst ook van toepassing op de rest van de wereld. Ben het overigens niet eens met de volgorde die Flynn aanhoudt, zij begint met Oxycontin, waar dit toch echt heroïne moet zijn, gevolgd door methadon, een middel dat veelal wordt voorgeschreven aan heroïne verslaafden..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Er zijn zelfs verslaafden die beweren dat methadon nog meer verslavend werkt dan heroïne, iets dat ongetwijfeld te maken heeft met individuele, fysieke omstandigheden.

Vreemd genoeg schrijft Flynn niet over crystal meth (ook wel: 'methamfetamine' genoemd), of iets als crack (rookbaar gemaakte cocaïne), beiden uiterst verslavend. Daarover gesproken: cocaïne zelf geeft geen afkick verschijnselen en is volgens velen niet verslavend, in tegenstelling tot de hiervoor genoemde harddrugs en zou daarom niet in de lijst moeten staan.

Wel mooi dat Flynn alcohol in de lijst heeft opgenomen, jammer genoeg op een veel te lage plaats, immers alcohol is in ons land en de andere EU lidstaten niet alleen de meest gebruikte verslavende harddrug, na nicotine*, maar is na tabak ook nog eens de meest dodelijke harddrug, althans gezien het enorme aantal doden dat jaarlijks te betreuren is door deze sociaal geaccepteerde harddrug........ 

Men wenst de harddrug alcohol niet als dusdanig aan te duiden en velen worden goed pissig als je alcohol een harddrug noemt...... Dagelijks sterven in Nederland 12 mensen aan het langdurig en intensief gebruik van alcohol, ofwel in geval van een griepgolf zou dit een epidemie zijn, waar er nog steeds reclame gemaakt mag worden voor deze harddrug.... (overigens is de dood maar één van de 'bijwerkingen' die het gebruik van alcohol geeft)

Daarnaast is alcohol behoorlijk kankerverwekkend, ook al iets waar de door de alcohollobby bewerkte politici niets van willen weten, vandaar dat er zoals gezegd, gewoon reclame gemaakt mag worden voor dit gif....... De slachtoffers die kanker opliepen door alcoholinname worden niet eens meegerekend in de cijfers, het is dan ook moeilijk aan te tonen dat bijvoorbeeld een maag-  en/of (slok-) darmkanker de oorzaak is van overmatig alcoholgebruik.......

Hier de lijst van Flynn:

The 7 Most Addictive Drugs on the Market

by Carey Flynn • July 19, 2018

(TFC) – There are so many different types of addictive drugs on the market today that we often do not even take the time to think about all the different ones. From street drugs to pharmaceuticals to over-the-counter items, millions and millions of Americans feed their different addictions daily. Let us take a closer look at seven of the most addictive drugs that people are using.

Oxycontin

One of the seven most addictive drugs on the market today is Oxycontin. It is a potent opiate painkiller that doctors commonly prescribe for moderate to severe pain management. When used as directed, the pain medication is time released and effective. However, many people use the drug inappropriately in order to achieve a heroin-like high. It is estimated that approximately 1.9 million Americans battle Oxycontin dependency and addiction (“drugabuse.com”, 2018). Additionally, it is reported that there are over 40 deaths a day, in the United States, that can be attributed to Oxycontin addiction (“drugabuse.com”, 2018).

Heroin

Heroin is not only one of the seven most addictive drugs out there, it is often referred to as the number one most addictive drug that people commonly abuse today. Many states are currently experiencing a heroin epidemic as the number of daily users continues to increase at alarming rates. According to Channel 10 TV, at least three people in Ohio die of heroin overdoses in one day. Additionally, News Channel 5 in Lebanon, Tennessee reports that heroin overdoses have increased tremendously in recent months. The drug is readily available on the streets all over the United States and is cheaper and easier to obtain than the pharmaceuticals, like Oxycontin, which provide abusers with similar effects.

Methadone

Methadone is included in the seven most addictive drugs available today. It is a drug that doctors prescribe to help addicts beat opiate and heroin addiction. It is proven highly effective in preventing withdraws when addicts detox from heroin or opiates. Methadone has similar effects as heroin, and it blocks the effects of opiates should the addict decide to abuse opiates(“drugabuse.com”, 2018). The effects of methadone have a 22-hour lifespan, which is a lot longer than heroin; however, it is less potent. The problem with methadone is addicts often trade in their heroin or opiate addiction only to become addicted to methadone.

Xanax

Xanax is a prescribed anxiety medication that is also one of the seven most addictive drugs on the market. In the United States, there are currently over 50,000,000 legal prescriptions written or filled for Xanax every single day (“drugabuse.com”, 2018). While Xanax is successful in treating anxiety, it is highly addictive, causing many of the addicted to shop around for doctors who will prescribe them, or forge their own prescriptions (“drugabuse.com”, 2018)

Cocaine

Cocaine is a stimulant that was once used in medication and over-the-counter products. When a person snorts, injects, or smokes this drug, it raises the levels of dopamine in the brain (“drugabuse.com”, 2018). Cocaine’s strong but short-lived effects cause it to be one of the seven most addictive drug that people still purchase.

Alcohol

Because alcohol consumption is legal for Americans over the legal age, many people do not consider it when thinking about addictive drugs. However, alcoholism is real. There are an estimated 17 million adults in America who suffer from alcohol dependency (“drugabuse.com”, 2018). Of these 17 million, an estimated 88,000 die per year due to health complications or accidents caused by their alcohol addiction (“drugabuse.com”, 2018). Even though alcohol can be legally purchased and consumed, it is still one of the seven most addictive drugs in America.

Nicotine

Much like alcohol, people rarely consider nicotine an addictive drug since cigarettes are purchased and smoked legally. However, it is estimated that over 37 million adults in America are nicotine dependent (“cdc.gov”, 2018). Of these people, over 16 million live with diseases that are a result of their addiction (“cdc.gov, 2018). While the number of smokers is on the decline, nicotine is still one of the seven most addictive drugs on the market.

Addiction is something that not only affects the addict, but it equally affects everyone who loves the addict. When we think of addiction, we rarely think of all the different types of drugs that Americans are addicted to. From heroin and cocaine to prescription drugs and cigarettes, addiction is everywhere.
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* Volgens nieuw onderzoek is alleen nicotine amper schadelijk, de echt schadelijke en kankerverwekkende stoffen zijn andere (verslavende) stoffen in tabak....... Stoffen die de tabaksindustrie doelbewust toevoegt aan tabak en waar de opvolgende Nederlandse regeringen niets aan wensen te veranderen........ De meest smerige uitspraak op dit gebied was die van D66 minister Borst, die stelde dat een verbod op de door de industrie extra toegevoegde verslavende en kankerverwekkende stoffen, het gebruik van tabak zou bevorderen........ Knettergek zoals je begrijpt, immers verslaving is een ziekte en het wegnemen van de extra verslavende stoffen zou het gebruikers van tabak juist wel makkelijker maken te stoppen met roken! Het huidige beleid: het steeds verder verhogen van de tabaksaccijns is de dood in de pot, immers de georganiseerde misdaad viert feest bij elke prijsverhoging van tabak, daar hiermee de vraag naar illegale tabak stijgt........ Je zou de lobbyisten voor prijsverhogingen kunnen verwijten dat ze daarmee lobbyen voor die georganiseerde misdaad!!

Het label 'oxycodon' direct onder dit bericht staat voor 'oxycontin'

De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht

De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan u zich realiseert, zo luidt de kop boven een artikel van Brian Saady. Daar moet ik hem toch corrigeren, die oorlog is veel dodelijker dan gedacht door het publiek dat hier weinig of geen aandacht voor heeft, immers er wordt behoorlijk bericht over het enorme aantal doden dat jaarlijks valt in Mexico en in andere Midden- en Zuid-Amerikaanse landen, plus de VS....* Neem alleen al de massagraven die men in Mexico heeft ontdekt (en nog zal ontdekken...).....

Voorts komt Saady met beschuldigingen als zou Hezbollah verantwoordelijk zijn voor drugssmokkel, een vaststelling die eerder al onderuit werd gehaald vanwege het ontbreken van enig bewijs....... Hetzelfde geldt voor zijn uitlating t.a.v. de Koerdische PKK..........

Jammer ook dat Saady volkomen negatief spreekt over de FARC, terwijl deze organisatie bijzonder veel heeft gedaan bijvoorbeeld t.b.v. de kleine boeren en een groot aantal van hen heeft bescherming gekregen van de FARC tegen de willekeur van het leger, de politie, de rechtse doodseskaders (die samen met politie en leger) alles wat maar links rook, als het even kon (en nog kan) vermoordde....... Waar de grootgrondbezitters en hun legertjes aan 'beveiligers' in Colombia 'natuurlijk' hun steentje aan bij hebben gedragen, sterker nog: de doodseskaders werden en worden gesteund door die grootgrondbezitters......

Je zou bijna denken dat vooral links verzet tegen willekeur de grote drugskartels vormen, echter dit is uiteraard grote flauwekul!

Lees het artikel van Saady over deze zaak:

The War on Drugs Is Far Deadlier Than You Realize

March 26, 2018 at 12:09 pm
Written by Anti-Media News Desk

(FEE) — While accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said:

“The manner in which this war against drugs is being waged is equally or perhaps even more harmful than all the wars the world is fighting today, combined.”

The death toll from the drug war is much less than the actual warfare throughout the world. However, his sentiment is quite appropriate because a significant percentage of the world’s violence could be prevented with a flick of a pen by ending the War on Drugs.

Cartels and Violence

Imagine if we could essentially eliminate the black market for drug trafficking in Chicago, which has the highest number of gang members and homicides. It’s estimated that up to 80 percent of the city’s murders are gang-related. And one of the main causes of this violence is connected to controlling turf for drug sales.

Gang violence isn’t as rampant throughout the U.S., but the National Gang Center estimated that 13 percent of the murders in the U.S. are gang-related. That falls in line with a similar report by Narco News that concluded that 1,100 drug war-related murders occur each year in the U.S. Keep in mind, that figure is fairly conservative due to the lack of full transparency with crime statistics.

The U.S. represents the largest market in the world for illegal drugs. Currently, there is a well-documented opioid crisis but the U.S. also consumes more cocainethan all of Europe—and by a wide margin. All told, the U.S. illegal drug black market represents a $100 billion annual industry.

Although there is a serious black market violence problem in the U.S., it pales in comparison to the countries that are source and transshipment points of illegal drugs. For example, there were over 29,000 murders in Mexico last year with roughly 33–50 percent being related to the drug war. That’s not factoring the 30,000 missing persons who are presumed to be dead.

The cartels conduct warfare in a brazen manner that is essentially indistinguishable from terrorist groups. Their conduct is so brutal, they have been known to hang rival gang members from bridges or publicly put bounties on corrupt government officials. Narco money has enabled these organized crime groups to operate with impunity.

The latest example of this corruption involves the leader of the Los Rojos cartel financing the campaigns of 11 mayoral candidates in exchange for political protection. Bear in mind, this isn’t a matter of simple greed. If these officials don’t take the bribes, they’ll likely be killed. After all, over 100 mayors have been murdered in Mexico since 2006.

All in all, narco money has corrupted every segment of the government necessary to protect their organizations. (My free e-book, America’s Drug War is Devastating Mexico, gives much more detail of organized crime’s reign in Mexico.)

As a matter of fact, Los Zetas have even corrupted the highest levels of government in neighboring countries. The Ex-Vice President and former Minister of Interior have each been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes of $250,000 and $1.5 million, respectively.

The Los Zetas cartel is responsible for the worst massacre in Guatemala since the civil war. In 2011, cartel members beheaded 27 innocent farmworkers in search of a ranch owner who the cartel suspected of stealing a drug shipment.

Due largely to the War on Drugs, the four countries immediately south of Mexico (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) are listed within the top six highest murder rates in the world. Furthermore, nine out of the top ten are in Latin America or the Caribbean.

Likewise, 43 of the 50 cities with the highest murder rates are in Latin America or the Caribbean. Four of the remaining cities are in the continental U.S., i.e. Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, and St. Louis. Only three cities are not in this hemisphere (South Africa).

Obviously, there are a variety of factors that contribute to violence, notably extreme poverty. One city on the list (San Juan, Puerto Rico) has had fairly low crime in recent years, but Hurricane Maria brought about much instability to the island.

Otherwise, it’s clear that the War on Drugs is one of the leading factors to the high violence. Mexico had 12 cities in the top 50, which was the second highest number behind Brazil.

It’s important to note, Brazil isn’t a major source of drug production. However, it has historically been the second largest consumer market for cocaine and it is the leading transshipment point of illegal drugs into Europe, Africa, and Asia. This is evident in the fact that 17 Brazilian cities are in the top 50 global homicide rates. Fourteen of those cities are located along the Atlantic Coast, which is prime real estate for drug trafficking.

This violence isn’t a result of a “soft on crime” approach; the Brazilian government takes the term “War on Drugs” literally. Like Mexico, the military, along with the police, conduct law enforcement operations and the results are predictable. The Brazilian police kill an average of six peopleeach day. Remarkably, the police are responsible for roughly one out of five murders in Rio de Janeiro, with few being held accountable.

The police, in many cases, are acting in self-defense. However, the Brazilian government has essentially provided the police with impunity for extrajudicial murder and they operate in a brazen manner. In this video, for example, the police performed a drive-by shooting of two unarmed teenagers.

It should also be noted that several of the gangs conduct open warfare against the police. The most gruesome example occurred in Sao Paulo in May of 2006. Over the course of a week, more than 150 people were killed after Brazil’s most powerful gang, PCC, launched a wave of attacks against multiple police stations. The police responded by rounding up suspected gang members and executing them in kind.

Narco-Terrorism

As you read more about the PCC and other criminal organizations, you are likely to come across the term “narco-terrorism.” This term was coined in 1982 by the President of Peru, Fernando Belaunde Terry. Peru was and continues to be one of the top cocaine producers in the world.

The Peruvian communist terrorist group, Shining Path, has been largely funded by “taxing” cocaine traffickers. Those profits have helped them kill approximately 11,000 civilians. Fortunately, the Shining Path’s membership numbers have drastically dwindled and the organization is substantially less active.

Cocaine money also played a major role in the 52-year Colombian civil war that resulted in 220,000 deaths and over seven million domestic refugees. Thankfully, the communist terrorist group, FARC, came to a peace agreement in 2016. This group was responsible for numerous bombings, kidnappings, and thousands of murders.

Most of their members have agreed to lay down their arms. However, an estimated 1,200 dissidents have refused to leave the criminal underworld. Likewise, another communist rebel group and officially designated terrorist group, ELN, has been in on-and-off peace negotiations. However, their group has walked away from the table, each time due to the tremendous profits from cocaine.

Similarly, Colombia’s former right-wing paramilitary terrorist group, AUC, officially disbanded in 2006, but the majority of these men simply splintered into various organized crime groups. The Colombian and U.S. governments haven’t designated these groups as terrorists because they seem to be more driven by greed than ideology.

However, the tactics by Colombia’s crime groups are indisputably terrorizing. These neo-paramilitary organized crime groups, known as BACRIMs, exert totalitarian control in their territory. They indiscriminately murder leftist activists, journalists, and human rights workers. In some cases, they impose a 9 P.M. curfew and invisible borders that are enforced with the death penalty. That’s in addition to their brand of “social cleansing,” i.e. murdering homeless, drug addicts, LGTBQ, etc.

This leads to a concept mentioned in academia, “the crime-terrorism nexus.” In other words, the line dividing organized crime from terrorism is increasingly blurry. Also, many terrorist organizations fund their activities from crime.

Various nations were listed earlier by the highest homicide rates. However, those studies don’t include countries at war. With that in mind, it’s no secret that both sides of the Afghanistan War are funded with opium profits. The Taliban are grossing an estimated $400 million annually from drugs. For many years, the Taliban simply “taxed” drug traffickers in their territory, but credible reports suggest that they’ve expanded into production.

Of the 64 foreign terrorist organizations designated by the U.S. State Department, twenty-three profit from illegal drugs to some degree. Albeit, drug money is generally a small portion of the budget for most terrorist organizations and it is usually derived from “taxing” drug traffickers rather than direct participation.

North Africa has become a major drug transshipment point for South American cocaine headed to Europe and Asia. Heroin from Asian countries is also often smuggled through this region. As a result, the Somali-based, Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, al Shabaab and the West-Africa based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) profit from this underground market. Boko Haram not only taxes traffickers, but the group has expanded their role in this racket. Furthermore, ISIS has taxed shipments of Moroccan hashish destined for Europe by way of Libya.

On the other hand, there are terror groups, such as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Islamic

Movement of Uzbekistan (UMI), that are directly responsible for smuggling large quantities of illegal drugs, which comprises a large portion of their funding.

The U.S. Government’s Role

These links between terrorism and drug trafficking, ironically, have boosted the DEA in a self-serving manner. In 2006, Congress amended the PATRIOT Act with a statute regarding drug trafficking that directly or indirectly benefits a foreign terrorist organization. As a result, the DEA’s international jurisdiction and budget expanded tremendously.

However, the agency has launched a series of high-profile cases that have resulted in major headlines, instead of actual narco-terrorists being captured. Case in point, three West Africans were indicted in 2009 from an undercover sting operation involving DEA informants who posed as members of the FARC.

The informants repeatedly told the traffickers that they wanted to do business with Al Qaeda. Hence, these men simply pretended to have links with a terrorist group to seal the deal. Nonetheless, this aspect of the case hasn’t been widely reported and this case was a major PR win for the DEA.

On the other hand, the DEA had built a long-running and credible investigation, Project Cassandra, against Hezbollah. Their group is widely known as being sponsored by the Iranian government. However, Hezbollah also has generated millions of dollars by smuggling several tons of South American cocaine. The group has business ties with the Colombian FARC and the Brazilian PCC.

Several high-level members of Hezbollah were implicated in Project Cassandra. However, an impressive report by Politico revealed that the Obama administration suppressed this investigation to help finalize the nuclear deal with Iran.

One of the open secrets of the War on Drugs is that the U.S. government, among other nations, has given support to drug trafficking for geopolitical purposes. In this case, the U.S. used the drug war as a bargaining tool with an adversary.

However, the U.S. government’s complicity with drug trafficking has generally benefited its allies. That’s the case in the Afghanistan War and it was certainly the case during the Vietnam War. Likewise, drug money helped U.S. interests in dirty wars, such as the Contras in Nicaragua or the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Furthermore, several narco-linked, right-wing dictators in Latin America, including Manuel Noriega, have benefitted from strong U.S. support.

All in all, there are many forms of violence resulting from the War on Drugs. Nonetheless, our politicians have been unwilling to address the root cause. As a result, government bureaucrats have pointed to this violence to justify larger budgets for the drug war.

However, with multiple decades of this failed policy behind us, we should realize that the demand for illegal drugs will never decrease in a substantial manner. Hence, continuing down this path will continue to enable the violent tactics of low-level criminals, mafia organizations, terrorists, dictators, and empire-driven governments.

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* Al bericht men dan wel over de vele doden en bijvoorbeeld gevonden massagraven, de oorzaak wordt niet aangegeven in de reguliere (massa-) media en dat is nu juist de meer dan walgelijke oorlog tegen drugs, waar alleen de georganiseerde misdaad, het militair-industrieel complex en de geheime diensten in de VS het meest van profiteren, zelfs de DEA heeft in het verleden drugstransporten geregeld......... (uiteraard aangevuld met lobbyende politici voor één of meerdere van de hiervoor genoemde 3 partijen) Op die manier zijn ook aandeelhouders van het militair-industrieel complex verantwoordelijk te houden voor het enorme aantal moorden in deze smerige oorlog..........) Het feit dat de meeste drugs (en zelfs softdrugs) verboden zijn zorgt er uiteraard voor dat zoals gezegd de georganiseerde misdaad helemaal binnenloopt met de inkomsten uit die drugshandel. Zo kan je dan ook stellen dat regeringen die hard optreden tegen drugs, daarmee in feite lobbyen voor de drugsmaffia!!

Zie ook: 'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

        en:  'List of wars involving the United States'

        en: 'VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........'

        en: 'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO.........'

VS politie corrupt, ongehoord dom en schietgraag....... Een uiterst giftige cocktail.......

In de VS, het land van de 'ongekende mogelijkheden' is de politie corrupt, ongehoord dom en schietgraag....... Voor de zoveelste keer blijken agenten met hun 'bodycam' (een camera die op hun jas of shirt 'is gespeld') een misdaad van hen zelf te hebben vastgelegd....... 

Dit keer was het de politie van LA, ofwel de LAPD, een corps dat bekend staat om de alom aanwezige corruptie, was 1 agent zo ongelofelijk dom dat deze opnames maakte, terwijl hij cocaïne in de portefeuille stopte van iemand die men staande had gehouden.......

Ondanks de opnames houden de agenten hun verhaal vol en stellen dat de coke uit de zak van de staande gehouden persoon was gevallen.......

Ongelofelijk dat Nederland nog steeds zelfs eigen onderdanen uitlevert aan de VS...... De VS het 'land' waar je als verdachte vaak beter kan bekennen, ook al heb je iets niet gedaan, daar je anders grote kans loopt op een hoge gevangenisstraf, 'plea bargain' noemt men dat....... De VS het 'land' waar nog steeds de doodstraf wordt uitgevoerd....... De VS waar de gekleurde minderheid onevenredig veel vaker in de gevangenis zit, dan de witte bevolking....... De VS het 'land' waar vergeleken met elk ander land, ongelofelijk veel meer mensen in de gevangenis zitten....... De VS het 'land' waar het gevangenissysteem voor een groot deel is geprivatiseerd en zelfs aan de beurs genoteerd staat, kortom waar de gevangenisleiding moet zorgen dat de gevangenis zo vol mogelijk zit....... De VS, het land waar agenten jaarlijks duizenden mensen doodschieten en dat veelal volkomen onnodig en zelfs totaal onterecht........

Kortom zoals u kon lezen: de VS 'het land' van de ongekende mogelijkheden.........

Watch: Cops Accidentally Film Themselves Planting Cocaine in a Man’s Wallet

November 16, 2017 at 1:09 pm

Written by Carey Wedler

(ANTIMEDIA) Los Angeles, CA — LAPD officers appear to have accidentally recorded themselves planting drugs on a suspect in an arrest made back in April. Though it’s not exactly clear where the drugs originated, the police report and officers’ testimonies differ from what their body camera footage shows.

Last week, CBS Los Angeles published the body camera footage from 12 different angles in the first instance where LAPD has released video from their officers since the body camera program began two years ago. The footage shows multiple officers arresting Ronald Shields, who was eventually charged with a felony hit and run, having a gun in the trunk of his car, and cocaine possession.

The police report clearly states they found the cocaine in Shield’s left pocket, but the video shows a different sequence of events. As Officer Samuel Lee restrains and searches Shields, another, Officer Gaxiola, picks up Shields’ wallet from the sidewalk and shows it to Lee, who motions that it belongs to Shields. Gaxiola bends over, puts it back on the ground, and picks up a small green bag of white powder off the street, then picks up the wallet, and “appears to put the bag in the wallet,” CBS reports.

Addressing the seemingly irrational action of an officer filming themselves planting drugs, CBS notes that though Gaxiola activated his camera after putting the cocaine in the wallet, he may not have known that the camera automatically saves 30 seconds of footage without audio prior to the officer manually turning on the camera.

In court, the officers stuck to the story they reported in the police summary of events.

“[Lee] looked dumbstruck to me. Period. He had really no answers,” said Steve Levine, an attorney for Shields, while discussing Lee’s testimony. Gaxiola had not yet testified at the time of CBS’ report, but both officers told the outlet they had no comment on the disparity between the police report and the footage.

Lee claims the drugs ended up on the ground because they fell out of Shields’ pocket, but Levine argued in the court that Gaxiola planted the drugs entirely. However, the judge was unconvinced by Levine’s theory.

Even so, as Vox observed, at the very least:

“It’s possible…that the cops tried to reenact the act of finding the cocaine for the cameras. But that is still very deceptive — and when so clearly caught on video, it makes it hard to trust the police officers with just about everything else they’re doing. It makes a potentially credible case lose all credibility.”

According to a statement from LAPD, a department known for corruption and abuse:

“The LAPD takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and, as in all cases, will conduct a thorough investigation.”

Officers in other parts of the country have also accidentally filmed themselves planting drugs. In Baltimore, multiple instances of this type of misconduct led prosecutors to drop numerous charges and cases earlier this year.

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Opiaten doden in de VS jaarlijks 10 keer zoveel mensen, dan terroristen in de afgelopen 20 jaar..!!!

Anti-Media bracht afgelopen zondag een artikel van The Free Thought. Hierin aandacht voor het gebruik van opiaten in de VS en dan m.n. het gebruik van voorgeschreven pijnstillers......

Volgens de schrijver, Claire Bernish, overlijden dagelijks gemiddeld 91 VS burgers aan het gebruik van pijnstillers als OxyContin (oxycodone) en illegale drugs als heroïne. Maar al te vaak, stappen chronische pijnpatiënten over van OxyContin of Vicodin (hydrocodon) naar heroïne, daar ze niet voldoende pijnstilling vinden in de voorgeschreven medicatie. Overigens een fiks deel van die 91 dagelijkse doden, is te betreuren door de inname van een hogere, dan de voorgeschreven dosis, daar men ondanks de voortdurende pijn geen hogere dosis krijgt voorgeschreven door de arts.

Ook aandacht voor de illegale oorlog tegen Afghanistan, waar voor de inval van de VS nog amper papaver werd verbouwd, is de productie nu hoger dan ooit tevoren........ Binnen 6 maanden na de VS inval, was de productie van opium van 185 ton gestegen naar 3.400 ton........ Het schijnt zelfs voor te komen, dat VS militairen papavervelden bewaken voor bevriende 'krijgsheren............' (zie de foto in het Free Thought artikel hieronder)

Wel wil ik aantekenen dat het aantal alcoholdoden in de VS, de 91 dagelijkse 'opiumdoden' ver moet overtreffen. In Nederland gaat het dagelijks om een gemiddelde van 12 alcoholdoden per dag, dit getal zou voor de VS op rond de 200 doden per dag moeten liggen...... Tja, de harddrug alcohol is nu eenmaal 'sociaal geaccepteerd', ook al maakt deze harddrug vergeleken met alle andere harddrugs opgeteld, verreweg de meeste dodelijke slachtoffers........... (dit nog naast de andere directe en indirecte schade door overmatig alcoholgebruik, zoals kanker, verkeersdoden, mishandeling, scheiding enz.)

Lees en zie de hypocrisie van de VS en haar oorlog tegen drugs, die nog steeds doorgaat, ook al zei Obama er een streep onder te hebben gezet........ Een oorlog waarin de VS overheid (zelfs de DEA) niet treuzelt om zelf beter te worden van bijvoorbeeld het heroïne of cocaïne gebruik in dit 'land.....' Zie wat dat laatste betreft o.a. de tweede (laatste) link in het artikel van Free Thought.

Eén ding is zeker, het jaarlijkse aantal doden door opiaten in de VS, ligt 10 keer hoger dan het aantal doden dat in 20 jaar tijd door terrorisme in de VS te betreuren was.... Let wel: voor die doden door terrorisme voerde en voert de VS illegaal oorlog in een fiks aantal landen, het aantal mensen dat daarbij werd vermoord, overtreft het cijfer met drugsdoden (ook die door alcohol) op een gigantische manier...... Zo heeft alleen de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak tot nu toe al aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen het leven gekost........

In One Year, Opiates Killed Ten Times as Many Americans as ALL Terror Attacks in Last 20 Years

By Claire Bernish

 April 28, 2017

So, why, then, has a killer of tens of thousands each year still on the loose inside those putatively impermeable borders? How could this executioner, unmasked and identified, roam main streets of small towns as comfortably as a seedy alley in some decrepit corner of an urban metroplex — unhindered by the threat of detention or arrest?

How could this nefarious reaper sever the lives of ninety-one Americans each and every day, yet — rather than earn a notorious status as Enemy of the Public Number One — this killer is encouraged to thrive, intentionally or not, by those supposedly the most trusted to guard us from bodily harm?

Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has waged the pernicious War on Terror — combating a concept most of its citizenry will never encounter firsthand — nearly everywhere on the planet, even toppling ostensively brutal but sovereign regimes in its name.

Yet, Terror — its tactics used most often by disciples fighting in the name of religion — has not been as efficacious in destroying American lives as the opioid medications prescribed, without irony, to kill their pain.

Since 1995, terrorists of varied stripe have killed 3,181 people in the U.S. — nearly 3,000 of them in the September 11 attacks, which sparked the nation’s unending war, alone.

That’s a startling figure, indeed — particularly in a country known for Orwellian surveillance and tracking of visitors and citizens, alike — but terror’s death toll cannot be examined separately from known killers more easily stopped.

In 2014, the span of a single year, an astounding 29,467 Americans died by overdose of opioid-related drugs, including prescriptions — and the following year saw more than 15,000 lose their lives to overdose on opioid medications legally prescribed by medical personnel.

Unintentional drug overdose is now the primary cause of accidental death’ in the U.S. — and prescription opioid industry bears a significant bulk of culpability in the problem.

Many opiate addicts never sought the escape of a substance recreationally — but were given prescriptions for medications like Vicodin (hydrocodone) or even OxyContin (oxycodone) following surgery, a serious injury, or as treatment for the chronic pain of another illness.

What might seem innocuous when written by a physician can quickly turn malevolent — a single month of prescribed medication might not be sufficient to fight the pain of a complex fracture or chronic ailment. If the prescriber then refuses an extension of that opioid — all-too frequently, under the benign premise of preventing dependence — that patient might seek other means to procure the same relief.

Many turn to heroin — highly illegal, but readily available from the black market — and without the rigorous federal restrictions guarding its legal opioid brethren. In fact, a large percentage of heroin addicts began using after prescriptions for strong opioids like OxyContin ran their course, leaving the patients suffering without recourse.

Every day, around 1,000 people are treated in hospital emergency rooms for misuse of prescription opioids — and in 2014, alone, roughly 2,000,000 abused or were dependent on those opioid medications. One-quarter, given such a prescription on a long but terminal basis, struggles with dependency.

Fifteen-thousand people perished by overdosing on prescription opioid painkillers in 2015 — and the figures compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grow exponentially by the year. Even as the War on Terror rages on around the globe.

Indeed, veteran American troops have stumbled on that war’s undiscussed elephant in the room while fighting the supposed terrorists we’re made to believe threaten our security, overseas in Afghanistan — the origin, by most reports, of the majority of the world’s opium supply.

Standing guard over fields of opium poppies isn’t expressly stated in U.S. military recruitment brochures, yet troops returning stateside report that media images showing them doing so are entirely accurate.

Immediately prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan some sixteen years ago — in an irony of tragic shame to warhawk politicians and the pharmaceutical industry — the Taliban had all-but eradicated the opium poppy from the fertile lands under its control, evidenced by a record-smashing low, 185-ton, harvest.

Reversing that became paramount priority — even before dust kicked up by the boots of incoming soldiers had time to settle.

“Within six months of the U.S. invasion,” wrote Matthieu Aikins for the December 4, 2014, Rolling Stone, “the warlords we backed were running the opium trade, and the spring of 2002 saw a bumper harvest of 3,400 tons.”

To call the revival a success would severely undercut the facts. Production of Afghani opium doubled by 2014, and Afghanistan’s potent poppies — rumored to be rivaled in quantity only by secreted fields of the North Korean government — soon dominated markets, comprising 90 percent of the entire planet’s supply.

Opiates fuel a crisis of dependence and addiction that — in tandem with a dearth of treatment programs attainable by those with low incomes or lacking insurance — has mushroomed into an epidemic, without indication of diminishing soon.

Correlation might not equal causation, but that span and gravity of that epidemic run in lockstep with the astronomical rise in production of Afghanistan’s opium — and both share a birthdate roughly coinciding with the U.S. invasion.

Opiates are profitable. Opioid prescription painkillers — doled out to Americans for temporary relief of pain, four times more often than in 1999 — are Big Pharma’s bread and butter. Even when the health of the millions stands in peril — an epidemic reaching across class, gender, race, and income lines to perfect a stranglehold — prescription opioids profit their manufacturers and distributors so many billions, ethics can’t take priority.

Sadly, and with tragic irony, the opioid crisis rekindled the flames of another highly ineffective war — the war on drugs. This most violent, futile, and rights-violating attack on Americans does nothing to stop the problem and only serves to bolster the bottom line of the prison industrial complex.

In fact, the war on drugs has served its purpose in creating the very crisis it ostensibly fights — a result known by all those who’ve ever taken the time to study the horrid effects of prohibition. 

It must be understood, black-clad terrorists shouting, ‘Death to America!’ might offer a captivating tidbit for nightly national news. However, in actuality, these militants do not present so much as a distant threat to anyone living in the confines of the United States.

Rather, the unscrupulous players in the pharmaceutical industry, motivated by profit more than individuals’ long-term health — and their lackeys in government, specialists in lax legislation tough in language, only — whose decisions, given the chain of responsibility in crises, can ultimately destroy countless families.

Our government will wage this War on Terror, assumedly until the ‘threat’ of ‘terrorism’ decreases substantially. In the meantime, the opium overseas, guarded by U.S. troops and tended by local farmers both incentivized by and hawkishly watched by Taliban warlords, will be to blame for the epidemic killing scores the terrorists otherwise couldn’t.

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