Deep Dive: New Opium Wars
'Personal Choice' or evidence of a 'Covert War on the General Public'?
Dear James,
Rest in peace, my friend.
In the first post in this series, Archbishop Viganò discusses a ‘covert war’ against society that is not fought with ‘conventional weapons’. In this post, we hope to answer in great detail one element of this multifaceted plan. The story involves elite plans for society along with drug manufacturers — equally as much as it involves your local heroin dealer.
Fentanyl and other synthetic opiates like its derivative carfentanil are dangerous ‘unconventional weapons’ that required society to be ‘primed’ for their acceptance during a period of ‘relative peace’. Had illicit fentanyl arrived in the quantities seen during the 2010’s during the 1990’s for example — it would be have been deemed unacceptable for 10,000s or 100,000s of thousands of Americans to be suddenly dying yearly from synthetic opioids. As a result — a priming of the civilian population was necessary.
If you wanted to ‘knock off’ an individual — you might hire a contract killer.
If you wanted to strangle a society — you would hire its doctors.
Often, it can take decades or generations before accurate historical representations of the ‘times’ can emerge. With respect to artificial opioids — this problem is doubly so, as many of those who have suffered from the onslaught of ‘Big Pharma’ and other ‘Big Cartels’ seldom live to tell the tale. The opioid crisis has proven to be a perpetually worsening issue with countless negative externalities for everyone in society. From crime, to mental health, to attempts at reintegration with society — how to better deal with these problems are stories for another day. This article intends to focus on precisely how this particular problem got so bad that we are seeing celebrities like Michael K. Williams suddenly dropping dead, and innumerable others overdosing and dying in the streets.
How did we get to this point as a country?
How are the young and old alike dropping dead from synthetic opiates?
Why has government and medicine as a whole been so inept in dealing with this crisis?
Ever notice how most mainstream news coverage of events only focuses on specific incidents and never how we arrived to a given situation?
Like a frog being boiled in water — the general public cannot solve a problem that has, on numerous occasions, remained a step ahead of the ability for that society to reason about it. Reading the mainstream media’s various accounts of the opiate/opioid crisis in the United States does not typically present an uninitiated reader with the true and full extent of the scourge of opiates unleashed on the American public over the last 30 some-odd years.
Several months ago, the video above made rounds across the internet and it is still begging for an adequate response.
A True History of the New Opium Wars
Concept: Lies and Misrepresentations
The groundwork that laid foundations for doctors to remain silent on issues of medical malfeasance began much earlier than the pandemic. In the 1990’s, for example, doctors (lobbied by sales representatives for big pharmaceutical manufacturers) would wittingly or unwittingly mislead their patients about the actual duration of pain relief experienced by opioid based products. They would tell their patients, for example, that they needed “30mg of MS Contin once every 12 hours” for adequate pain relief. This was an important lie and misrepresentation to understand. The biggest lie is that, perhaps for this individual, the medication would only last for 3 hours before pain returned — in which case the patient might run out of medication before their ‘prescription refill time’ by taking [on their own] 4x their prescribed dose to ‘feel the same’. Whether the doctors knew or not, at the time, that the information they were presenting to their patients was false is not respective of the statistical outcomes of those patients life. Later on, this article will explain how this particular lie and others like it became so dangerous when presented in the context of synthetic opioids that had not yet made it inside of America’s cities and towns.
To clarify further — the doctors who pushed narcotics on patients in this example may have had a legitimate purpose for doing so. Perhaps the patient suffered pain after a car accident, but did not previously abuse opioids. In the example of the situation above, now the doctor has ‘captured’ a new customer, frequently for life. Countless Americans started their journey to addiction by way of apparently perfectly legal prescriptions for narcotics.
Concept: Softening the target.
A well-known military strategy that employed against Saddam Hussein during the First Gulf War by George H. W. Bush is referred to as ‘softening the target’. Prior to the launch of any American ground forces on Saddam’s Iraq from Kuwait - a massive air campaign was launched which destroyed various apparatuses like radar arrays and anti-aircraft defense systems. This was done by using fighter jets as well as helicopters. In this manner - Iraq was sufficiently ‘softened’ as a military target.
The same wartime concept should be applied to the American public when thinking about the synthetic opioid crisis and the manner in which pharmaceutical companies and drug cartels alike created both a market and demand for licit and illicit opiates that has become increasingly deadly throughout the last several decades.
The American public was - by the recent legal finding in the Purdue Pharma case - ‘under attack’ by spin-doctors and countless other unknown characters throughout this story we can’t directly name.
Concept: Proliferation
PURDUE FREDERICK MS CONTIN SUSTAINED RELEASE MORPHINE SULFATE MARKETING WITHOUT FDA APPROVAL IS JUSTIFIED BY AGENCY'S ACUTRIM DECISION, FIRM SAYS
A study of the history and marketing of MS Contin in the 1980s yields a recurring theme and lesson. A drug manufacturer (yet again, Purdue) creates a ‘novel’ chemical and releases it through various marketing channels as a cure to the ‘disease’ of chronic pain. Lax controls on security or inventory as well as complicity at key points throughout the supply and distribution chains allow for a secondary market (gray or black) to thrive.
Gray Market: when a pharmaceutical sales rep ‘backdoors’ unsold product from the manufacturer to a middleman or distributor
Black Market: when your local drug dealer has Oxycodone, Vicodin, Heroin, Cocaine, and Fentanyl available for sale.
Legal channels, like countless pill mills (masquerading as ‘pain management clinics’) that dotted points along the eastern seaboard in key states like Florida and entire regions like Appalachia, provided a vast new market for drug manufacturers to rake in cash at tremendous rates of growth. In many instances, ‘consumers’ were enslaved by deceptive and predatory marketing practices of Purdue and other drug manufacturers. The reason for the use of the term ‘enslavement’ is simple - a company producing a product that quickly envelops a consumer with a physical dependency on that companies product needs to be held to a higher standard than a company that does not. In this way, the FDA and other ‘oversight’ and regulatory bodies were complicit in allowing a constant stream of ever more lethal and shorter-lasting drugs to be marketed to the public. An addictive product that has a shortened length of effectiveness requires more frequent dosing — and increases demand.
These institutions decayed due to the revolving door that shuffles policy experts and lobbyists between their highly paid executive roles at pharmaceutical giants and their respective oversight bodies long before many opiate abusers recognized they had been duped.
Along the periphery of the primary and secondary markets for these substances, untold human misery took place. Much of this secondary market was from the beginning intended on being decentralized. The opiate trade offered a lucrative job prospect to young people already awash in propaganda that would inevitably lead them to illicit lifestyle choices. One core driver of this decentralized market was the price arbitrage that took place between supplier, procurer, and consumer. Cut out the insurer from the equation, and the price to produce these formulations is relatively predictable and low in large quantities. To create backdoors to populate a secondary market was the easy part of the heist.
Oxycodone Formula Change Blamed for Rise in Heroin Use
In 2010 — Purdue changed a formulation in its drugs that led to a massive and underreported rise in the use of heroin.
On the left, you’ll see the (2010 - present) extended-release ‘OP’ formula pill that cannot be tampered with.
On the right, you’ll find the (19xx - 2010) old-style pill that can be easily converted into an ‘instant-release’ (and nose-friendly) drug by simply removing the outer layer of coating. Many addicts were introduced to heroin after this ‘formula change’ because they could no longer tamper with and abuse OxyContin.
At the time — addicts would be consuming a relatively known quantity (40mg, or 80mg) of the same drugs. Sure, it took more and more for the same addict to get high — but the jump in lethality between 40mg and 80mg of oxycodone for an active opiate addict is relatively smaller than doing unknown quantities of heroin. This is the underreported fact that kept the unleashed beast at bay during the period of time prior to 2010. After 2010, many addicts switched to heroin, in much greater unpredictable and variable qualities and quantities.
The ‘system’ had long become saturated with cheaper and more powerful heroin (as compared to OxyContin) by 2010 — but fentanyl still had yet to proliferate. If you’ll refer back to the first graph published above, you’ll notice an uptick in overdose deaths by several different types of substances that had started to become spiked by synthetic opioids and other more dangerous drugs. In real terms — the users of these products became unsuspecting victims of the success of their increasing deadliness.
After approximately 2012-2013 — Fentanyl became absolutely pervasive across all classes of drugs. Equally likely to be found in spiked heroin, counterfeit xanax pills, or even cocaine at this point, there is evidence found in every aspect of American life of the ‘covert war’ Viganò points out in his video series.
What company ‘discovered’ Fentanyl?
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, in 1960. Approved in the United States 1968. Carfentanil discovered 1974.
Which Johnson & Johnson subsidiary produces the J&J vaccine?
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
There were 93,000 reported deaths (NOTE: the numbers are likely much higher) in 2020 — an increase of 30% year over year. The situation is worse than ever, especially thanks to the isolation inducing lockdowns and mass paranoia felt by much of a society that has unconsciously become socially conditioned for these vulnerabilities.
The Streets Of Major US Cities Are Being Flooded With Far More Drugs Than Ever Before
An endless tsunami of illegal drugs is turning the streets of our major cities into desolate wastelands, and yet our politicians seem powerless to do anything about it. In fact, in some of our biggest cities the politicians actually don’t seem interested in doing anything about it. As I will discuss below, open air drug markets are operating freely right in the heart of New York City at this moment. Dealers and addicts go about their business without the slightest fear that the police will do anything. Meanwhile, the national death toll just continues to rise. An all-time record 93,000 Americans died as a result of a drug overdose last year. That was an increase of nearly 30 percent from the year before, and authorities are already warning that there will be another huge jump when the final numbers for 2021 come in.
Conclusions:
The problem is getting worse.
China exports Fentanyl to Mexican drug cartels, and it continues to spill over a porous border in record quantities.
Another looming threat is Carfentanil. A drug ~100x as potent as Fentanyl. Fentanyl is ~50x as potent as Heroin.
What the CDC neglects to mention about the ‘Opioid Epidemic’ is the information published above. The crisis is a largely manufactured one, softened up by Big Pharma — which only pays in financial settlements in criminal and civil lawsuits. The executives responsible alongside the pocketed cronies that serve as their oversight bodies don’t ever address the harm being done in any way.
Archbishop Viganò is correct — there is a covert war being fought with unconventional weapons, one of which is fentanyl.