1. El Principio de Oferta y Demanda: La Responsabilidad del Consumidor.
La idea central en numerosas publicaciones es que la crisis del fentanilo es un problema económico básico: mientras exista una fuerte demanda de drogas en Estados Unidos, siempre habrá una oferta. Se argumenta que la responsabilidad principal recae en los consumidores estadounidenses y que la solución radica en reducir esa demanda.
- The fentanyl problem is a usa addiction problem. Capitalism at its best: if there is demand somebody will supply! stop the demand if you want to solve the problem.
- It is supply and demand, if americans were not using fentanyl, it would not be coming in. Americans love drugs, let’s not lie to ourselves. The president of mexico laughs at us because they don’t have a fentanyl problem.
- Fentanyl comes into our country because people here buy it. Trump solution: cut funding for programs and services that are trying to reduce demand and raise the prices of every thing people use to increase the stress level and induce people to self medicate.
- Regarding fentanyl, realize america continues to send billions of dollars to the drug cartels every year. Eliminate the demand, eliminates the flow of funds thus ending the fentanyl problem. Don't blame suppliers of illegal drugs. Why does america "demand" so much illegal dangerous drugs?
- Hey america, fentanyl usage is your problem. Demandsupply no demandno need to supply simple. Figure it out. No users. No use no buyers no sellers look in the mirror fix your own house.
2. Más Allá del Fentanilo: La Adicción como la Verdadera Crisis.
Muchos comentarios señalan que el fentanilo es solo el síntoma más reciente de un problema más profundo: la adicción y la crisis de salud mental en el país. Se sostiene que enfocarse únicamente en detener el fentanilo es inútil, ya que los adictos simplemente buscarán otra sustancia si no se trata la causa subyacente de su consumo.
- You don't have a fentanyl problem; you have an addiction problem. Until you solve the reasons why people turn towards addiction there will always be a problem.
- Fentanyl isn’t the bigger problem - addiction is. Do more to combat addiction; that will cut down demand and unwanted deaths.
- Addicts are addicts. Take away fentanyl and they will just move on to the next big thing. It will never end.
- If america wants to end the fentanyl crisis it has to do it at home, and care for the people who abuse drugs. Of course it never will. They could stop all the fentanyl and another drug would replace it in a week. It’s a demand problem, not a supply problem.
- Can you bring up drug rehabilitation - not fentanyl but addiction. We need federal funding for long term treatment. Sober living. Step down programs. Addicts are going to use whatever they can get their hands on, we have to treat the disease. Eliminating fentanyl won’t end addiction. Long term help.
3. Orígenes Internos: El Papel de 'Big Pharma' y el Sistema de Salud.
Se atribuye el origen de la crisis a factores internos de EE. UU., principalmente a las compañías farmacéuticas que, con fines de lucro, promovieron opioides adictivos como OxyContin. Esta adicción inicial, argumentan, creó el mercado que los carteles ahora satisfacen con fentanilo.
- The fentanyl crisis is because of billionaires. And our health care system. Not china. Not mexico. Not immigrants. We run health care for profit. The sacklers family pump opioids into people, telling them it is safe. People get addicted. They die. The sacklers profit.
- The fentanyl in our country is due to bigpharma getting people hooked on oxy. Stop them, stop fentanyl.
- Fentanyl isn’t the core problem. The opioid addictions cause by big pharma pushing their drugs is the problem. They caused this, not canada or mexico.
- The fentanyl epidemic is a result of big pharma pushing pain killers for profit. There's a market for it here. Start by providing the treatment people need to get off of it and the market is reduced. Then the americans bringing it in can stop.
- There would not be a fentanyl crisis if it wasn’t for the flooding of oxycontin into our communities. The problem isn’t mexico or canada, it’s the addicts and dealers here creating the demand, unscrupulous doctors and big pharma.
4. Soluciones Propuestas: Enfoque en Salud Pública y Tratamiento.
Frente a las políticas de prohibición y seguridad fronteriza, las publicaciones proponen un cambio de paradigma hacia la salud pública. Las soluciones sugeridas incluyen financiar centros de tratamiento, mejorar el acceso a la salud mental, abordar la pobreza y legalizar y regular las drogas para reducir el mercado negro.
- The fentanyl problem will not be solved through border security and tariffs. This is a social problem. Why do people turn to drugs? devote resources to help them and the root problem.
- If they want to control the fentanyl crisis, they need to get to the root cause. Why are people using and how can we help them, addiction and mental health counseling, affordable medical treatment. If there's no users, there's no market and the crisis is resolved. Fund mental health and medical care.
- If i can be real about fentanyl for a moment: if a market exists, the product will get there one way or another. The only way to save american lives is a drug policy that isn't based on police work and border control, but on health and wellness, as well as lifting people out of poverty.
- Want to stop the importation of fentanyl? treat the disease of addiction. No demand no supply.
- Fentanyl wouldn’t be in the drug supply if drugs were legal and regulated. The war on drugs has killed many americans.