The paper is talking about a pre-trump downturn. Blowing up boats had nothing to do with it.

The article is about how overdose deaths began falling in 2023, so perhaps you owe 2023's "dear leader" an apology.

If so it is Biden who is owed the apology.

Not the boats for this study (though they may help in the future ).

From the article:

“About 70% of American overdose deaths are caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Networks shift, but currently most American street fentanyl starts as building-block chemicals produced in China. Those are shipped to Mexico, where drug gangs formulate them into fentanyl and smuggle it across the border.”

The stronger border is optimistically placing more control of the problem in US hands.

hint: fentanyl doesn't travel from Venezuela to the US.

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> dear leader

lol what, this is insane, we don't live in 1984

And offer presidential pardons to those who sell it inside, illegally

It started 2023. who was the leader back then?

2025 is not even in the dataset so no

I wonder if Trump pardoning multiple drug dealers will also help. MAGA doctors must have figured out that drugs from political allies or “donors” are doubleplusgood for Americans. /s

This has been talked about lately, the drop has nothing to do with trump. The data in this chart goes up to Oct 2024, several months before trumps took office.

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jaman...

The reasons stated in the article have nothing to do with border enforcement, and observed supply shock started before 2024. The most recent year of data mentioned in the article ended in April 2025. But by all means, if you have information these researchers don’t, feel free to share it here.

> Canada has a similar opioid epidemic but a different supply chain, largely skipping over Mexico. Because Canada saw similar falls in fentanyl strength, the researchers hypothesise that the supply shock was caused by something changing in China.

Some drugs, like opioids, create a physical addiction. Their body cannot function without the chemicals.

Saying "Stop taking the drug" to those people is equivalent to saying "Stop eating". The body cannot physically function then.

Nicotine is also a chemical that induces a physical addiction.

Surprisingly, THC (marijuana) does not, apparently... Someone can stop cold with no physical issues, only psychological ones.

Black & white thinking is easy. Nuance is hard though and might even lead to empathy.