The Rise of Nitazenes: Chinese Suppliers Behind Ads for Deadly Opioids Targeting Europe
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Yes, the opium wars never ended. That doesn't make this good, though.
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In today's political climate, when there are several groups trying to paint China as completely and uniquely evil in every sense, it is important to note that similar actions have been taken by other nations against them.
Additionally, from the opposite angle, by providing examples of times when other nations did similar horrible things, it shows both that the information is plausible and that China definitely knows what the result of this will be. This arguably makes it even worse, given that they have seen the way that lives can be ruined by addiction and overdose when supplied with these substances.
The poster you replied to said nothing except stating the fact, and too many people don't know their history and are apt to think that situations like this are only a part of modern history. If he brought up an unrelated bad thing someone had done, that would be derailing, but providing this information opens up some real discussion about how this happened and how to deal with it.
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Unfortunately, especially those
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Weird that you get so riled up about that. It was pretty obvious that the link to history was put here to support the case against China. Why are you so sensitive in this matter?
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Ah yes, I remember when I poisoned Chinese folks during the opium wars 200 years ago. I guess I can't complain.
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Basically, yes, you're limited by drug dynamics and kinetics - if an opioid molecule had absolute binding affinity, efficiency and efficacy etc., you'd only need the number of molecules of that drug that could occupy the number of receptors in the body for that particular drug. I think that's probably the case for these hyper-potent drugs like carfentanyl or whatever, and it ends up being astonishingly little. Think about botulinum toxin, for example.
