Susan Wojcicki’s freshman son at Cal died from a fentanyl od

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cousin died last week. He started using drugs when he was 14 and was never able to get clean despite rehab after rehab. Over the years he robbed and stole from family members- and then he’d get clean and his parents would try to help. My aunt and uncle went through the wringer with this kid. The last few years his parents felt safest when he was in jail.

My uncle died a few months ago and my cousin seemed to be doing so much better. He had a job, an apartment, and checked in his mom every day. When he didn’t call her for a few days, she knew that he was gone. Despite the years and years of struggle, his parents remained hopeful and the loss is devastating.

It was almost certainly fentanyl that killed him.

I’m sorry for your family’s loss.

[Anonymous]

Was at Stanford, not Cal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good article explaining the issues and our many policy failures around it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/dea-fentanyl-failure/

Not a reputable source

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Illegal drugs have been around forever and are not the fault of any one political party or presidential administration.

I spent a fair amount of time in the trenches as a prosecutor, and saw close up how drug war funding fuels aggressive policing but doesn’t create any real positive outcomes in the community.

We will never solve the problem of drugs - I’m sure humans have been finding ways to get high since they lived in caves.

We should redirect massive amounts of funding from interdiction to addiction prevention and treatment programs, with a very heavy emphasis on building a much bigger and better capacity for mental health services across the board. Most addicts have trauma and are self medicating. Half of all children experience some kind of violence in childhood. Many of the judgy mcjudgertons on this board who rail against drug use are drinking too much, eating too much, sex addicted, etc. as ways of dealing with their own unresolved MH problems.

We’d accomplish more by building a more compassionate society, but that’s not a winning campaign slogan so of course it won’t fly.

Yes, and close the border

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.thedailybeast.com/marco-troper-son-of-former-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-found-dead-in-uc-berkeley-dorm

Partying in 2024 isn’t like 2004, 94 or 84 people!

Please tell your kids to only stick to alcohol or pot from reputable sources if they can’t control themselves.

The danger of taking fentanyl has been highly publicized and while It is very sad when anyone dies from taking fentanyl or any drug but they made the stupid choice.

It’s laced into other drugs. If that had been the case back in the 80s, I can’t imagine how many people I know who would have died.

Why do drug dealers lace fentanyl into other drugs? Doesn't that cost more to do it that way?

And it sounds like people are more likely to overdose -- why try to kill off their customers?

Never done drugs before, so no clue about this stuff.

They put fentanyl in there because it’s very cheap, just a little goes along way to give you an amazing high and it’s a synthetic drug so it’s more easily produced than other drugs

But you have a good point on why would anyone want to kill their customers and thus decrease their profits!

It’s the traffickers who add the fentanyl, not the petty middle man dealers.

Close the freaking border and this will begin to improve

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Illegal drugs have been around forever and are not the fault of any one political party or presidential administration.

I spent a fair amount of time in the trenches as a prosecutor, and saw close up how drug war funding fuels aggressive policing but doesn’t create any real positive outcomes in the community.

We will never solve the problem of drugs - I’m sure humans have been finding ways to get high since they lived in caves.

We should redirect massive amounts of funding from interdiction to addiction prevention and treatment programs, with a very heavy emphasis on building a much bigger and better capacity for mental health services across the board. Most addicts have trauma and are self medicating. Half of all children experience some kind of violence in childhood. Many of the judgy mcjudgertons on this board who rail against drug use are drinking too much, eating too much, sex addicted, etc. as ways of dealing with their own unresolved MH problems.

We’d accomplish more by building a more compassionate society, but that’s not a winning campaign slogan so of course it won’t fly.

Yes, and close the border

It is not possible to stop drugs from crossing the border. Prisons have overdose deaths too. Humans take drugs. Legalize and regulate is the only answer.

[Anonymous]

Why doesn't Biden make fentanyl a priority

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a horrible tragedy. Horrible!

It's not a "tragedy." It sucks for the family, but it's not a tragedy as it was entirely predictable.

It IS ironic, however, given the boasts of the grandmother about how well the child was raised. Turns out to be just another junkie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't Biden make fentanyl a priority

*checks notes*

https://apnews.com/article/biden-addiction-and-treatment-alaska-united-states-government-state-of-the-union-address-7592deaf631e2b842607368979f3c15c

He is.

Moron.

Have a seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good article explaining the issues and our many policy failures around it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/dea-fentanyl-failure/

Not a reputable source

Uh, it's the Washington Post. You know, winner of 73 Pulitzer Prizes since 1936.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't Biden make fentanyl a priority

*checks notes*

https://apnews.com/article/biden-addiction-and-treatment-alaska-united-states-government-state-of-the-union-address-7592deaf631e2b842607368979f3c15c

He is.

Moron.

Have a seat.

His priority with it is to keep it coming. Sit on the floor. Moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't Biden make fentanyl a priority

*checks notes*

https://apnews.com/article/biden-addiction-and-treatment-alaska-united-states-government-state-of-the-union-address-7592deaf631e2b842607368979f3c15c

He is.

Moron.

Have a seat.

I hope your kids or someone you love end up brain dead from an overdose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't Biden make fentanyl a priority

*checks notes*

https://apnews.com/article/biden-addiction-and-treatment-alaska-united-states-government-state-of-the-union-address-7592deaf631e2b842607368979f3c15c

He is.

Moron.

Have a seat.

His priority with it is to keep it coming. Sit on the floor. Moron.

Why doesn't he do with the silly Ukraine focus and ask the Russian sanctions that are dumb, sanctions on countries that import fentanyl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a horrible tragedy. Horrible!

It's not a "tragedy." It sucks for the family, but it's not a tragedy as it was entirely predictable.

It IS ironic, however, given the boasts of the grandmother about how well the child was raised. Turns out to be just another junkie.

WTAF. I don’t think the public knows the circumstances about this. Do you call all college who try a drug a junkie? Because LOTS of college kids try drugs and it might have been something like Percocet laced with Fentanyl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a horrible tragedy. Horrible!

It's not a "tragedy." It sucks for the family, but it's not a tragedy as it was entirely predictable.

It IS ironic, however, given the boasts of the grandmother about how well the child was raised. Turns out to be just another junkie.

WTAF. I don’t think the public knows the circumstances about this. Do you call all college who try a drug a junkie? Because LOTS of college kids try drugs and it might have been something like Percocet laced with Fentanyl.

and lots of college kids don’t try drugs.