What started as an opioid addiction epidemic caused in part by Percs and oxy's (Sackler family/Perdue Pharma) and such, became worse as people could no longer legally access them. Fentanyl patches were being stolen/robbed and sold at incredibly high prices. (One patch could get you 100cad a while back) Add on top of the heroin and other narcotic use already happening and shit gets crazy.

But, someone, somewhere, realized fentanyl could be made extremely cheap. That was someone in China.

And fentanyl could be mixed with shitty grade drugs to make them more potent and more addictive.

It could also make them lethal.

So, now you have foreign govs looking the other way as known chemicals are imported and used to manufacture and ship fentanyl to countries with increasing drug addiction problems.

Then, other local idiots figure out how to do it. With less experience, and who give no fucks, make shittier grade / less stable fentanyl and add it to pills, heroin, etc. and people start dropping.

Addicts of a certain degree don't care. Just need the next fix. Even at the known risk of immediate death.

Then you have the kid who decides they'll do a line of blow for the first time and happen to snort a grain that wasn't mixed in well enough. Small enough to not be noticeable. Large enough to kill them because they have zero tolerance to that type of drug in their system.

So. China/triads. Motorcycle "clubs", and other gangs. And the Sackler family.

Those are the people responsible for all of this.

You're obviously right, but made the mistake of actually thinking logically. What actually happened here is that the very stable genius just blamed another problem on immigration because otherwise his donors (was about to write friends but these people don't actually have friends) would maybe be unable to buy a fourth yacht if god forbid they were held responsible for their greed-fueled actions that destroyed families.

It is probably true that fentanyl is smuggled into the States, but that is only part of the issue and not the root cause for the crisis and not related to immigration except for the fact that someone or something crosses a border. It's hard to tell if it's just his racism / xenophobia or if he actually doesn't understand, as he also doesn't seem to grasp that the concept of granting shelter from hardship isn't the same as a mental institution, even though they're both called "asylum".

Its also the misbehaviour of the pharma industry. The misbehaviour makes people that don't do any drugs at all become dependent on opiates, because they hand out that shit like candies(at least that's what I heard). Once they are hooked and their script runs out you either get clean, which is absolutely horrible and can even kill you, or you go to the black market and get hooked in Fentanyl, because literally everything is cut with it.

The fact that the US is a capitalistic nightmare more and more people may start using drugs to get some form of enjoyment and so may end up getting hooked on Fentanyl. The fucked up Us healthcare system prevents people from getting the help they need because they can't afford it. I also don't think that the US spends a lot of money on preemptive work to make people aware of the da Gers which causes people to be less cautious.

These are basically the main reason for the current drug epidemic in the US. May have forgot some points.