- Trump administration says prices on Mexico and Canada will slow down fentanyl in the United States.
- A misdeed reduction expert warns that prices can increase overdoses by disrupting the supply of drugs.
- Canada provides reprisal rates, targeting goods from Trump’s political base.
President Donald Trump presented Prices on Mexico and Canada As part of an effort to combat drug trafficking, but a defender of the reduction of misdeeds says that stopping regular drug flow could increase overdoses.
Trump announced on February 1 that he planned to place 25% prices on Mexico and Canada. Trump said at the time that prices were intended to suppress drug and border policy, especially to stop the fentanyl flow in the United States.
Asset made a break for 30 days On February 3, after the two countries agreed with more strict measures of border control, but he still promised “Reciprocal prices” on goods imported from any country with prices in the United States.
In articles on Truth Social, Trump argued that “drugs flow in our country, mainly through Mexico, at levels never seen before”.
Laura Guzman, executive director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, told Business Insider that Trump’s prices could raise drug overdoses if they managed to slow down the flow of illegal drugs in the country. The reduction of misdeeds generally refers to policies and practices which aim to minimize negative health, the social and legal effects of drug abuse.
“The biggest fear that I had when I saw the negotiation to postpone the prices, immediately, my reaction was:” It will not be good for the people who are affected by the war against drugs, but also Through this tunted drug diet, “” Guzman told Bi.
Guzman said that if the slowdown in the fentanyl level entering the country is a good idea, there is still a large quantity of fentanyl that is produced in the United States which is found in the streets. She said that the disturbance of the drug flow can create a situation where drug addicts mix medication that they do not use normally, which can cause health and death risks. She said that the mixture of drugs can cause contamination of drugs where people could take medication that they do not know or do not know that they are taking.
“What is happening is more dangerous, because then the mixtures, the type of mixtures, with which it mixes, puts people at risk not only of opiate overdoses, but also to increase the sedation which leads to death” said Guzman.
Guzman said it is common for the reductions in misdeeds to see overdose death peaks in cities after local police have made heavy drug withdrawals.
“They make a ban, they start to stop, they say how fentanyl has confiscated, and we are soon starting to see peaks of overdose death,” said Guzman.
Put “all eggs on the ban”
People are passing in front of anti-window campaign posters in Mexico City. Yuri Cortez / AFP via Getty Images
She also criticized Mexico, saying that the government must do more to recognize the current fentanyl crisis having an impact on the two countries. Guzman said that there was a “denial” of the administration of the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum of “the influx of fentanyl of the border”.
Sheinbaum said in a statement on February 3 that Mexico rejected the Trump administration’s claims that Mexico had colluti.
“If the American government and its agencies wanted to approach the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they can fight against the sale of narcotics in the streets of their main cities, which they do not do,” said Sheinbaum.
Naloxone, a drug that is used to reverse opioid overdoses, is a substance controlled in Mexico, where it is considered a psychoactive medication. Guzman said that the country’s refusal to recognize Naloxone as a vital drug shows that it “puts all the eggs on the ban and denies the fact that fentanyl also takes lives on the other side of the border”.
Even if the Trump administration looks at the fetanyl trafficking as the main reason for its new prices, they sometimes had trouble defending it.
On NBC “Meet The Press” on February 2, Kristin Welker asked the Kristi Noem internal security secretary why Canada was struck by more serious prices than China.
“Why do the United States punish Canada, one of its closest allies, more than China, where does fentanyl come from?” Said Welker.
“We have sent a message this week that we are not going to be respected our southern border,” said Noem. “We will also put additional resources at this northern border. Canada must therefore come to the table.”
Customs and the protection of American borders seized more than 21,000 pounds of fentanyl on the Mexican border last year, according to the agency. The agency seized 43 pounds of fentanyl on the Canadian border.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also announced reprisal rates if Trump’s prices come into force. Some price goods target Trump’s political baseCovering articles like the oranges of Florida and Kentucky Bourbon.
The White House did not immediately return a request for comments to Business Insider.