Finally, the US government targets a dictator who murders thousands of Americans every year.

[Lesh]

What a shock, once again you'd be wrong. Drug overdose deaths involving Cocaine rose from 12,122 in 2015 to 59,725 in 2023.

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Do you think all or even mo cocaine comes from Venezuela?

You’d be wrong

And do you think removing Maduro will end ALL cocaine coming to America even from Venezuela?

Fat chance

This isn’t about drugs

Never was

 

[Lesh]

What a shock, once again you'd be wrong. Drug overdose deaths involving Cocaine rose from 12,122 in 2015 to 59,725 in 2023.

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What am I wrong about? 75% of overdose deaths come from opioids

Coke is not an opioid

And not all coke even comes from Venezuela

This is NOT about stopping ODs

 

[Darkwind]

The U.S. drug overdose crisis reflects sequential epidemiological waves driven by pharmaceutical policy, illicit drug market dynamics, and persistent gaps in addiction treatment access. From approximately 6,100 deaths in 1980 to 105,000 in 2023, the nation has experienced an uncontrolled catastrophe among working-age adults. While the substances involved have evolved—from crack cocaine in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the 2000s, to heroin in the 2010s, and finally to illicit fentanyl—the underlying driver has remained constant: inadequate treatment capacity, fragmented public health response, and market forces that exploit chronic pain and addiction.

The recent decline is notable but fragile, occurring amid restricted opioid supply quality and increased harm reduction efforts. Sustained reversal of this crisis will require comprehensive expansion of medication-assisted treatment, broader access to mental health services, and fundamental restructuring of how the nation addresses addiction as a public health emergency rather than a criminal justice issue.

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Data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), 2024. CDC FastStats Drug Overdoses; CDC Data Briefs 522 (2024), 491 (2024); CDC/SAMHSA Opioid Epidemic Reports; National Institute on Drug Abuse; County Health Rankings 2025.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db81.pdf
2. The Role of Cocaine Mortality in a Resurgent Overdose Epidemic | Rockefeller Institute of Government
3. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia
4. Drug Overdose Death Statistics [2025]: Opioids, Fentanyl & More
5. Products - Data Briefs - Number 522 - December 2024
6. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/hq062716_attach.pdf
7. New Report: U.S. drug overdose deaths rise again after hopeful decline
8. U.S. overdose deaths fell by 27% last year — the largest one-year decline ever recorded
9. The Opioid Epidemic in the United States | SHADAC
10. Drug Overdose Deaths*
11. FastStats
12. Products - Data Briefs - Number 491 - March 2024
13. Data Resources
14. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835230
15. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time - Wikipedia
16. Drug overdose deaths - Health, United States
17. Continuing Crisis: Drug Overdose Deaths in New York
18. U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
19. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/opioid-overdose-deaths-fall-trump-budget-cuts-2026
20. Opioid Overdose Death Rates and All Drug Overdose Death Rates per 100,000 Population (Age-Adjusted) | KFF State Health Facts
21. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
22. Drug Overdose Death Rate (per 100,000 population) | KFF State Health Facts
23. Deaths Due to Drug Overdose and Alcohol Are Down Nationally, But Progress is Uneven Across Population Groups and at Risk Due to Cuts in Federal Health Programs - TFAH
24. Products - Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data
25. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db356-h.pdf
26. Worldwide Prevalence and Trends in Unintentional Drug Overdose: A Systematic Review of the Literature - PMC
27. How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Rippled Across America (Published 2016)
28. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00256-0/fulltext
29. Products - Data Briefs - Number 356 - January 2020
30. Products - Data Briefs - Number 273 - February 2017
31. Products - Data Briefs - Number 428 - December 2021
32. Restored CDC | NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation
33. The Buyers - A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs | Drug Wars | FRONTLINE | PBS
34. NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation

 

[Darkwind]

The U.S. drug overdose crisis reflects sequential epidemiological waves driven by pharmaceutical policy, illicit drug market dynamics, and persistent gaps in addiction treatment access. From approximately 6,100 deaths in 1980 to 105,000 in 2023, the nation has experienced an uncontrolled catastrophe among working-age adults. While the substances involved have evolved—from crack cocaine in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the 2000s, to heroin in the 2010s, and finally to illicit fentanyl—the underlying driver has remained constant: inadequate treatment capacity, fragmented public health response, and market forces that exploit chronic pain and addiction.

The recent decline is notable but fragile, occurring amid restricted opioid supply quality and increased harm reduction efforts. Sustained reversal of this crisis will require comprehensive expansion of medication-assisted treatment, broader access to mental health services, and fundamental restructuring of how the nation addresses addiction as a public health emergency rather than a criminal justice issue.

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Data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), 2024. CDC FastStats Drug Overdoses; CDC Data Briefs 522 (2024), 491 (2024); CDC/SAMHSA Opioid Epidemic Reports; National Institute on Drug Abuse; County Health Rankings 2025.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db81.pdf
2. The Role of Cocaine Mortality in a Resurgent Overdose Epidemic | Rockefeller Institute of Government
3. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia
4. Drug Overdose Death Statistics [2025]: Opioids, Fentanyl & More
5. Products - Data Briefs - Number 522 - December 2024
6. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/hq062716_attach.pdf
7. New Report: U.S. drug overdose deaths rise again after hopeful decline
8. U.S. overdose deaths fell by 27% last year — the largest one-year decline ever recorded
9. The Opioid Epidemic in the United States | SHADAC
10. Drug Overdose Deaths*
11. FastStats
12. Products - Data Briefs - Number 491 - March 2024
13. Data Resources
14. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835230
15. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time - Wikipedia
16. Drug overdose deaths - Health, United States
17. Continuing Crisis: Drug Overdose Deaths in New York
18. U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
19. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/opioid-overdose-deaths-fall-trump-budget-cuts-2026
20. Opioid Overdose Death Rates and All Drug Overdose Death Rates per 100,000 Population (Age-Adjusted) | KFF State Health Facts
21. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
22. Drug Overdose Death Rate (per 100,000 population) | KFF State Health Facts
23. Deaths Due to Drug Overdose and Alcohol Are Down Nationally, But Progress is Uneven Across Population Groups and at Risk Due to Cuts in Federal Health Programs - TFAH
24. Products - Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data
25. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db356-h.pdf
26. Worldwide Prevalence and Trends in Unintentional Drug Overdose: A Systematic Review of the Literature - PMC
27. How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Rippled Across America (Published 2016)
28. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00256-0/fulltext
29. Products - Data Briefs - Number 356 - January 2020
30. Products - Data Briefs - Number 273 - February 2017
31. Products - Data Briefs - Number 428 - December 2021
32. Restored CDC | NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation
33. The Buyers - A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs | Drug Wars | FRONTLINE | PBS
34. NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation

 

[scruffy]

This is NOT about stopping ODs

Who cares what it's about.

It's probably about many things all at once. I'll accept the drugs as a side effect, that's fine.

You don't seem to understand who Maduro was. He had death squads killing his own people, for the crime of speaking out. He was a mafioso, a thug, a cartelista. The world is a much better place with him gone.

 

[Lesh]

Who cares what it's about.

It's probably about many things all at once. I'll accept the drugs as a side effect, that's fine.

You don't seem to understand who Maduro was. He had death squads killing his own people, for the crime of speaking out. He was a mafioso, a thug, a cartelista. The world is a much better place with him gone.

Who cares?

There needs to be valid reasons for international actions like this ya jackass

And even you know there aren’t. You just don’t care

 

[scruffy]

Who cares?

There needs to be valid reasons for international actions like this ya jackass

There are. About 30 million of them. They're called the People of Venezuela.

 

[Lesh]

There are. About 30 million of them. They're called the People of Venezuela.

You on’t give two shits about the people of Venezuela and neither does Trump

 

[Thinker101]

You on’t give two shits about the people of Venezuela and neither does Trump

Obviously you don't care about them...moron.

 

[Lesh]

Obviously you don't care about them...moron.

Don’t even pretend that you do

 

[Thinker101]

Don’t even pretend that you do

You obviously don't care about the 1,000's ODing or the people of Venezuela. You fricken loons.

 

[candycorn]

I can't think of a better and more righteous target to incur the wrath of the US military than I can drug cartels, and those helping them.

Over a hundred thousand Americans die every year from drugs coming from these cartels across the US border.

Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures | National Institute on Drug Abuse

See facts and figures on overdose deaths as reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

nida.nih.gov

It is almost equivalent to all the American deaths in the Vietnam war, yet America has not acted like they were really at war until Maduro was targeted.

And guess what, I could care very little about all the conspiracy theories as to why Trump really went after Maduro, because no one I know questions that he was helping to run illicit drugs into the US, nor do they question that he subverted election results to stay in power. He is basically an illegitimate thug who deserves to be put in a high-speed boat in the Gulf of Trump and turned into fish food.

When will America ever wake up?

And I am tired as hell of Democrats bending over backwards to defend and protect criminal thugs like Maduro.

To hell with them all!!!

Just out of curiosity...if Hunter Biden would have died from his drug use...would you have called him a victim or blamed him for the choices he made?

 

[Lesh]

You obviously don't care about the 1,000's ODing or the people of Venezuela. You fricken loons.

This will have zero effect on ODs and as far as the Venezuelan people… their politics… their problem.

You don’t care about either or you wouldn’t be lying about the ODs.

You sure never cared about the Venezuelan people last week so save you bullshit

 

[BackAgain]

Who cares what it's about.

It's probably about many things all at once. I'll accept the drugs as a side effect, that's fine.

You don't seem to understand who Maduro was. He had death squads killing his own people, for the crime of speaking out. He was a mafioso, a thug, a cartelista. The world is a much better place with him gone.

Damn fine post. I really appreciate the bolded part. But our liberals and progs and leftists and Democraps “isn’t” learing.

 

[BackAgain]

Who cares?

There needs to be valid reasons for international actions like this

And there are.

 

[Nostra]

This will have zero effect on ODs and as far as the Venezuelan people… their politics… their problem.

You don’t care about either or you wouldn’t be lying about the ODs.

You sure never cared about the Venezuelan people last week so be you bullshit

 

[Lesh]

And there are.

Yeah. Oil

 

[BackAgain]

Yeah. Oil

No. Drugs. Oil is not what this is primarily about.

But his efforts also have potentially significant implications for a great many matters related to international relations.

 

[scruffy]

You on’t give two shits about the people of Venezuela and neither does Trump

Okay, Kreskin.

You just proved that leftards are completely out of touch with reality.

Tomorrow before I leave for LA I'll be speaking with my Venezuelan next door neighbor on the phone. She does my graphics, she's an important person in my operation.

Are leftards always this hateful?

Never mind, that was a rhetorical question

 

[CowboyTed]

I feel conflicted by this. I think Trump is a moronic idiot. But Maduro is an idiot, too. It depends what Trump does next. If he wants to do it, he should go the whole hog. Get the US military in there to set up an election with the US military running it.

Madro is a bad guy, sure... But Trump just put the next one in charge and went after the Oil...

Is there anyone stupid enough to think this will stop drug deaths?

This is a smash and grab for Oil.

Problem is that it won't work... Trump can't see it yet..