Exclusive: Chuck Norris urges action to combat rising U.S. deaths tied to over-the-border fentanyl
My wife, Gena, and I were so saddened to hear about more celebrities' kids' deaths from the lethal drug that is killing more Americans than any other and is manufactured across the U.S. southern border, fentanyl.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to "Saturday Night Live" star Dana Carvey and wife Paula in the unfortunate passing of their beloved 32-year-old son, Dex.
Last November, Dex was found by first responders lying unresponsive on the floor of his bathroom after a 911 call by his girlfriend.
Yahoo News just reported, "According to an official autopsy report, Dex Carvey passed away from 'drug toxicity,' specifically from fentanyl, ketamine, and cocaine. His manner of death has also been ruled an 'accident.'"
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Our hearts equally go out to "Pawn Stars" all-around great American businessman, Rick Harrison, whose beloved 39-year-old son, Adam, also recently died of a fentanyl overdose.
Rick told the New York Post, "Fentanyl turned my son into someone he wasn't, and that brought with it bad decisions and spending time in jail."
Fox News headlined, "'Pawn Stars' personality Rick Harrison says son Adam died from fentanyl overdose, blames border crisis."
Rick's exactly right. Adam died because the Biden administration refuses to close our borders from illegal activity and contraband pouring into our country at astronomical rates, particularly the production and dealing of fentanyl.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported overdose deaths from synthetic opioids rose 55.6% between January 2020-2021 alone.
The CDC reported, "Provisional data from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics indicate there were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2021, an increase of nearly 15% from the 93,655 deaths estimated in 2020."
Compare the deaths in the U.S. between fentanyl and other drugs:
Fentanyl overdoses are soaring across all ages and racial lines, with dramatic increases in black, Native American, Alaska Native and Hispanic communities across the nation.
"The rising homicide rate in D.C. is nothing compared with what fentanyl is doing," the Washington Post reported. "In 2020, opioids claimed more than twice the 198 lives that gunfire did in the nation's capital."
"It's the sixth year that drugs have killed more people than guns. City records show the trend began in 2014 and held steady even as gun violence surged; so, too, did the age of those dying of an overdose."
And Washington, D.C., is not alone.
The Post explained, "The graying of overdose victims is happening across the nation, not just in D.C. In 1999, 518 Americans 55 and older died in opioid-related overdoses. That number rocketed to 10,292 deaths in 2019, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That's roughly the same number that die in drunken-driving deaths in the United States each year."
Regarding younger generations, fentanyl is now the No. 1 cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45, surpassing suicide and car accident-related deaths. Please read that again.
What's crazy is how those tragic figures parallel in adolescents, too. Even a new study by the CDC echoed the findings: "The study found that deaths from opioid overdoses in teens ages 14 to 18 increased by 94% between 2019 and 2020 and by an additional 20% between 2020 and 2021.
"The researchers, who hailed from multiple institutions, found that adolescent fentanyl-related overdose deaths leapt 350% over the study period. Overall, fentanyl was associated with 77% of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021."
Safe and In Recovery.com explained the exponential risks for teens who use these highly addictive drugs: "Teens who abuse fentanyl and other opioids are also at increased risk of engaging in other types of dangerous behavior. They are five times more likely than other teens to attempt suicide, drive drunk, get into fights, carry guns or other weapons, or engage in risky sexual activity."
Tragically, most American parents are completely unaware clandestine dealers are using social media to entrap their kids by offering these powerful drugs to them for cheap. And dealers are using innocent emojis to sell fentanyl doses in literally seconds online to millions of teens.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) summarized exactly why the U.S. borders should have been closed ages ago (emphasis mine):
"Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid typically used to treat patients with chronic severe pain or severe pain following surgery. Fentanyl is a Schedule II controlled substance that is similar to morphine but about 100 times more potent. …
"Illicit fentanyl, primarily manufactured in foreign clandestine labs and smuggled into the United States through Mexico, is being distributed across the country and sold on the illegal drug market. Fentanyl is being mixed in with other illicit drugs to increase the potency of the drug, sold as powders and nasal sprays, and increasingly pressed into pills made to look like legitimate prescription opioids. Because there is no official oversight or quality control, these counterfeit pills often contain lethal doses of fentanyl, with none of the promised drug.
"There is significant risk that illegal drugs have been intentionally contaminated with fentanyl. Because of its potency and low cost, drug dealers have been mixing fentanyl with other drugs including heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine, increasing the likelihood of a fatal interaction.
"Producing illicit fentanyl is not an exact science. Two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person's body size, tolerance and past usage. DEA analysis has found counterfeit pills ranging from .02 to 5.1 milligrams (more than twice the lethal dose) of fentanyl per tablet.
- 42% of pills tested for fentanyl contained at least 2 mg of fentanyl, considered a potentially lethal dose.
- Drug trafficking organizations typically distribute fentanyl by the kilogram. One kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people."
Sadly, the number of fentanyl fatalities will continue to soar for one reason. As NPR reported, Mexican cartels are increasing their production of fentanyl right now because it's so easily smuggled into and sold in our country.
With fentanyl's staggering lethalness and murder rates (which is exactly what these overdoses are) from fentanyl alone in the U.S., it is beyond lunacy that Biden's federal agents are trying to cut the wires Texas border agents have put up to keep illegal activity from coming in. I am grateful for former President Trump and 25 GOP governors who are backing Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott in trying to stop this border madness and atrocity.
President Biden and his whole administration are as guilty and culpable for fentanyl overdoses and those who illegally manufacture, smuggle and deal it. They are aiding and abetting it all!
It's exactly because the feds and our state representatives won't do more to protect our borders and communities from the fentanyl epidemic and overdoses that we must.
Please, contact the White House and your U.S. representatives and demand they close the U.S. borders and stop the cartels powers and illegal contraband of every type coming into our country. Vote in 2024 to get another president in the White House who will bolster and protect our U.S. borders.
For the future of your family and our nation, talk to the teens in your sphere of influence about the epidemic and fatal dangers of fentanyl. Understand the emoji drug code and how dealers are using cloaked identities to solicit your kids.
If you are or suspect someone you know is using or addicted, seek help and intervention immediately. Here are seven signs of fentanyl addiction to watch for.
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