Opium and Heroin are not nearly as lethal as Fentanyl.
Plus there is probably a cultural difference, China and India might have different outlets for desperate people down on their luck.
That’s a rosy view of both China and India.
Fentanyl-related deaths in the US have exceeded 70,000 annually, with synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) driving the surge in overall drug overdoses. Recent data estimates over 73,000+ fentanyl-involved fatalities in 2022, and though totals fluctuated, fentanyl remained the primary cause of the over 100,000 annual overdose deaths. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/16178)
I wonder if doctors in China/India have more scruples about prescribing opiates. Here in the U.S. they give them to you for just about any amount of pain, weather you asked for them or not. They have given me opiates after I specifically told them I won’t take them because of the side effects. The treatment of pain here in the U.S. is stuck in the 1950s.
Lol meanwhile when I got stuck by stingrays (twice!) all they would give me is a bucket of hot water.
Myanmar is now one of world’s top producer of opium post-Afghanistan decline. Despite myanmar having direct borders with China and India , I can’t find any drug crises there unlike fentanyl in US?
So to rephrase: “Why aren’t there a bunch of drugs getting into China/India and causing a drug addiction problem?”
Idk about India but:
Lmfao, you’d get disowned and kicked out if you got a drug addiction in a Chinese family… and then nobody would wanna associate with you…
Plus… a lot of surveillance cameras
Instead, people (usually males) go drinking alcohol and gambling (illegal in mainland, so they go to Macau (and maybe HK? idk if they have casinos)), also apparantly smoking (tobacco that is, since weed is illegal btw) is widespread… I’m so lucky that my dad doesn’t drink or gamble, oh btw I heard from a Fujianese classmate (in the US) that (if I remember correctly) apparantly his dad got into a fight in a bar and so that got him deported…
Also, if someone dies of drug overdose, that’s very shameful for the family so sometimes they get the person doing the autopsy (the coroner? mortician? or whatever you all it) or some government official to label it as “accident” or maybe “accidental poisoning” (via connections (GuanXi) and/or via bribery)
Suicide is also shameful so sometime they also get labeled as “accident” to avoid shame to the family.
(I’m Chinese Diaspora)
