Fentanyl deaths falling off a cliff

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aggie93
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The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Ronald Reagan
Horn_in_Aggieland
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Trump is trying to put funeral homes, EMS, hospital staff, makers of Narcan, and drug dealers out of a job.

/Democrats
txags92
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aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.
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A lot to say about this chart apart from the intended Microsoft paint direction, though it does drop off pretty quickly after Biden left and the border was secured.

Look at what happened to drug deaths slightly after 2020. What is that hockey-stick upward? What was going on then?

The COVID19 Scamdemic.

People had their worlds turned upside down, lost their jobs, their vehicles, their houses, their businesses. The government said it was OK to go to Costco or HEB or Target, but everyone else had to shut down and shut the f up.

All for a weak ass cold virus.

AtticusMatlock
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The Covid lockdowns really hurt a lot of people. Huge part of it. I think there's also a lot of increased awareness of tainted drugs in general and fewer people are using. Gen Z was into vaping early and seem to be using more along the prepackaged marijuana candy stuff, but alcohol and hard drug use among their generation is probably the lowest we've seen in a long time.

From people I know who work in hospitals the meth is still like big problem among middle-aged men. Fewer younger people, more people in their 40s and 50s.
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And to think the Democrats are losing their minds over Trump sending out ICE agents to try and stop this mess.

But in a sane world, their President Biden would be the one headed to prison for being an accessory to murder.
FloridaAgg
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Might want to plug that plot in chatgpt for analysis.
ts5641
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Nothing to see here. Trump is literally Hitler.
Concerned Moderate Ag
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Who was president in 2024?
Jeeper79
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MookieBlaylock
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FloridaAgg said:

Might want to plug that plot in chatgpt for analysis.


who uses ChatGpt? do you still ask Jeeves?
Concerned Moderate Ag
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It's only 7am but I'm pretty sure this thread is the biggest swing and a miss I'll see all day.
Ellis Wyatt
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Concerned Moderate Ag said:

Who was president in 2024?
We don't know. It clearly wasn't Joe Biden. His brain was scrambled eggs.
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Just need the red line on when the boat bombings started!
Logos Stick
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Ole Biden. Such a moral and good soul.
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Concerned Moderate Ag said:

It's only 7am but I'm pretty sure this thread is the biggest swing and a miss I'll see all day.


A rational mind would look at that and understand that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

The gist is that the current "Orange Bad Man" policies and actions are making a dent in fentanyl deaths. Do you disagree even though it's only 0715?
Independence H-D
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Probably had something to do with widespread distribution and use of narcan. Then, continued by border security and interdiction efforts.
Concerned Moderate Ag
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Gilligan said:

Concerned Moderate Ag said:

It's only 7am but I'm pretty sure this thread is the biggest swing and a miss I'll see all day.


A rational mind would look at that and understand that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

The gist is that the current "Orange Bad Man" policies and actions are making a dent in fentanyl deaths. Do you disagree even though it's only 0715?


I'm saying the orange man's policies for the second term aren't even reflected on this graph, so trying to make it about him at all is pointless.
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txags92 said:

aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.


What a pathetic attempt to poop on good news. If you can't accept that there was fentanyl pouring in at the same time as the open border doesn't correlate, followed by the correlation of the blockade to cut the supply off then are so brainwashed it is sad.

Let's see.

Supply high equals death count high. Check

Supply is cut to near zero the death count drastically drop. Check.


…but go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.
Concerned Moderate Ag
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FCBlitz said:

txags92 said:

aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.


What a pathetic attempt to poop on good news. If you can't accept that there was fentanyl pouring in at the same time as the open border doesn't correlate, followed by the correlation of the blockade to cut the supply off then are so brainwashed it is sad.

Let's see.

Supply high equals death count high. Check

Supply is cut to near zero the death count drastically drop. Check.


…but go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.


Well, he's pointing out that unless the graph was made in a way that no graph has ever been made before, the timeline of the red box is wrong, unless Biden shut down the border in his last year as president, which I don't think happened.

That's how you're wrong.
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Concerned Moderate Ag said:

Gilligan said:

Concerned Moderate Ag said:

It's only 7am but I'm pretty sure this thread is the biggest swing and a miss I'll see all day.


A rational mind would look at that and understand that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

The gist is that the current "Orange Bad Man" policies and actions are making a dent in fentanyl deaths. Do you disagree even though it's only 0715?


I'm saying the orange man's policies for the second term aren't even reflected on this graph, so trying to make it about him at all is pointless.


It's not pointless because there's apparently been a drastic decrease since Biden left office for whatever combination of reasons. Something / someone gets credit for the drop.

The math isn't hard even this early in the morning. ...and I'm only on my first cup of coffee after a 5k run.
Concerned Moderate Ag
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Gilligan said:

Concerned Moderate Ag said:

Gilligan said:

Concerned Moderate Ag said:

It's only 7am but I'm pretty sure this thread is the biggest swing and a miss I'll see all day.


A rational mind would look at that and understand that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

The gist is that the current "Orange Bad Man" policies and actions are making a dent in fentanyl deaths. Do you disagree even though it's only 0715?


I'm saying the orange man's policies for the second term aren't even reflected on this graph, so trying to make it about him at all is pointless.


It's not pointless because there's apparently been a drastic decrease since Biden left office for whatever combination of reasons. Something / someone gets credit for the drop.

The math isn't hard even this early in the morning. ...and I'm only on my first cup of coffee after a 5k run.



If someone should get credit it's probably narcan. It's definitely not the POTUS whose second term isn't even shown on this graph. You are correct, math isn't hard, neither is reading graphs. At least I thought it wasn't until this thread.
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Source?


Usually when someone post a graph like that they provide a source. That used to kind if be a standard around here.
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Independence H-D said:

Probably had something to do with widespread distribution and use of narcan. Then, continued by border security and interdiction efforts.

No no no. It's AI. We hate AI except when it takes drug dealer jobs away.
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Concerned Moderate Ag said:

FCBlitz said:

txags92 said:

aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.


What a pathetic attempt to poop on good news. If you can't accept that there was fentanyl pouring in at the same time as the open border doesn't correlate, followed by the correlation of the blockade to cut the supply off then are so brainwashed it is sad.

Let's see.

Supply high equals death count high. Check

Supply is cut to near zero the death count drastically drop. Check.


…but go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.


Well, he's pointing out that unless the graph was made in a way that no graph has ever been made before, the timeline of the red box is wrong, unless Biden shut down the border in his last year as president, which I don't think happened.

That's how you're wrong.


You know that 2024 was the election year right? If I were you I would go back in time to around May-June 2024 and ask yourself the question. Did Biden make any changes to his border policy? I will save you some time, yes it did shift. So then ask yourself, why is Biden radically shifting his Border policy all of the sudden to look much more similar to the policies of let's say…… don't know,,,,the leader of the opposition party running on that issue.

No, those making decisions for Biden did not have a change in worldview on immigration, just in case you're wondering. They just saw that people are upset about the state of affairs along our border and they were going to make them pay at the ballot box.

In case you're ever thinking about how great some things were under Bill Clinton from 1995-2000, it does matter what happened in 1994. Election years where a conservative rhetoric election storm is brewing and the results end up matching the storm have a funny way of shifting Democrats in power perspective historically. Until the election is over.

I for one am looking forward to the new wave of socialist democrats like Mamdani. Democrats that make no apologies for their Marxist derived open border policies that most Americans don't want and the entire world is worse off by adopting.

At least if those people are calling the shots we don't have any confusion on line charts and election year policy shifts.

Also, democrats are the not the only people that charge their behaviors during presidential election years. Other countries, corporations, terrorists, and criminal enterprises do as well.


txags92
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FCBlitz said:

txags92 said:

aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.


What a pathetic attempt to poop on good news. If you can't accept that there was fentanyl pouring in at the same time as the open border doesn't correlate, followed by the correlation of the blockade to cut the supply off then are so brainwashed it is sad.

Let's see.

Supply high equals death count high. Check

Supply is cut to near zero the death count drastically drop. Check.


…but go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.

What a pathetic misunderstanding of the point of my post. This is obviously great news. But to claim it as the result of actions by the Trump administration as the OP did is intellectually dishonest, since the "closing the border" line shown on the graph appears alongside a large drop in deaths that occurred in 2024, a year before Trump took office.
Kansas Kid
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I'm surprised the chart doesn't highlight the start of the big spike in 2017 after a slow increase from the early teens. Deaths increased around 3 fold from then until the first red line.

I'm glad to see the death rate drop but the sharp increase started before 2021 or COVID.
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Kansas Kid said:

I'm surprised the chart doesn't highlight the start of the spike in 2017. Deaths increased around 3 fold from then until the first red line.

I'm glad to see the death rate drop but the sharp increase started before 2021 or COVID.

You do realize that the OP did not provide a source correct?
Kansas Kid
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agsalaska said:

Kansas Kid said:

I'm surprised the chart doesn't highlight the start of the spike in 2017. Deaths increased around 3 fold from then until the first red line.

I'm glad to see the death rate drop but the sharp increase started before 2021 or COVID.

You do realize that the OP did not provide a source correct?

He didn't but I have seen similar charts on OD deaths from reliable sources and they are dropping for the last 2-3 years.
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We should not allow an OP to post a graph like this and not say where it came from.

I mean don't get me wrong. I lost a nephew to Fentanyl. I would love for this to be true. But we should be above posting and for that matter just randomly starring stuff that is not sourced.

If anyone wants to see confirmation bias in action, if that post said the exact opposite there would be ten straight poster asking for a source. But since it confirms what we want to believe it get zero requests and 50 stars.
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Concerned Moderate Ag said:

Who was president in 2024?


Much like a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know
Kansas Kid
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Agreed.

Her is an article from NPR from June. Needless to say, they wouldn't be trying to help Trump with a piece showing the decline although the national stats show the drop started in 2023.

On the other hand, deaths have increased in certain areas like Denver.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5414476/fentanyl-gen-z-drug-overdose-deaths

https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/01/15/fatal-fentanyl-overdoses-in-denver-up-nearly-25-in-2025-health-department-says/

ETA. If you go pull up the original data, the spike in monthly deaths highlighted by the chart started in early 2020 and not 2021 when the border was opened but people on here will ignore that fact because Trump was President then. The spike happened because of Covid, free money handed out by the government, people with nothing to do when the economy was locked down, etc meanwhile, the border was totally shut for most of 2020.
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txags92 said:

FCBlitz said:

txags92 said:

aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.


What a pathetic attempt to poop on good news. If you can't accept that there was fentanyl pouring in at the same time as the open border doesn't correlate, followed by the correlation of the blockade to cut the supply off then are so brainwashed it is sad.

Let's see.

Supply high equals death count high. Check

Supply is cut to near zero the death count drastically drop. Check.


…but go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.

What a pathetic misunderstanding of the point of my post. This is obviously great news. But to claim it as the result of actions by the Trump administration as the OP did is intellectually dishonest, since the "closing the border" line shown on the graph appears alongside a large drop in deaths that occurred in 2024, a year before Trump took office.


I don't really know if this graph is even an accurate display of information but as I noted in my post above yours. Go back to summer 2024. Biden administration was shifting border policy precisely because the policy was deeply unpopular compared to Trumps just four years prior and Trump and the entire GOP was running on the issue and democrats were way underwater on it. The changes were not based on a change in viewpoint, it was based on election.
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FCBlitz said:

txags92 said:

aggie93 said:

The actions of the Trump administration have literally saved thousands of American lives every month. Absolutely fantastic news.



Unless those year markers are showing end of the year instead of the beginning, that drop started a year before Trump took office in January 2025.


What a pathetic attempt to poop on good news. If you can't accept that there was fentanyl pouring in at the same time as the open border doesn't correlate, followed by the correlation of the blockade to cut the supply off then are so brainwashed it is sad.

Let's see.

Supply high equals death count high. Check

Supply is cut to near zero the death count drastically drop. Check.


…but go ahead and tell me how wrong nm

nm
No Spin Ag
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BadMoonRisin said:

A lot to say about this chart apart from the intended Microsoft paint direction, though it does drop off pretty quickly after Biden left and the border was secured.

Look at what happened to drug deaths slightly after 2020. What is that hockey-stick upward? What was going on then?

The COVID19 Scamdemic.

People had their worlds turned upside down, lost their jobs, their vehicles, their houses, their businesses. The government said it was OK to go to Costco or HEB or Target, but everyone else had to shut down and shut the f up.

All for a weak ass cold virus.




So, is Trump to blame for the rise of the deaths during covid since he was president and also to be given credit for the recent decline in deaths since he's president?
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
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