{"id":79013,"date":"2019-12-17T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/magie-crisique-masque-diabolique-modernite\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:31:21","slug":"magie-crisique-masque-diabolique-modernite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/magie-crisique-masque-diabolique-modernite\/","title":{"rendered":"Magie crisique, masque diabolique, modernit\u00e9&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_a.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:2em\">Magie crisique, masque diabolique, modernit\u00e9&#8230;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Rien ne vaut pour oublier, &ndash; la peur, l&rsquo;angoisse, la peine, l&rsquo;impuissance, la l\u00e2chet\u00e9, la fatalit\u00e9, l&rsquo;inconnu, &ndash; rien ne vaut dans nos temps postmoderne d&rsquo;une modernit\u00e9-tardive\/modernit\u00e9-informe, ce que les Grecs Anciens nommaient <em>pharmakeia. <\/em>Le mot, nous dit-on de  <a href=\"https:\/\/emcitv.com\/bible\/strong-biblique-grec-pharmakeia-5331.html\">fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s \u00e9rudite<\/a>, est cit\u00e9 trois fois dans la Bible, sous sa signification la plus ambigu\u00eb, la plus trompeuse, &ndash; la plus furtivement (<em>stealthily<\/em>) diabolique, &ndash; comme signifiant de \u00ab\u00a0magie\u00a0\u00bb, d'\u00a0\u00bbenchantement\u00a0\u00bb&#8230; Michael Snyder observe, <a href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/we-are-in-the-midst-of-the-worst-drug-crisis-in-american-history\">ce 16 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>, dans le texte repris ci-dessous : &laquo; <em>Les Grecs de l&rsquo;Antiquit\u00e9 utilisaient le mot \u00ab\u00a0pharmakeia\u00a0\u00bb pour d\u00e9crire l&rsquo;attrait mystique que ces sortes de drogues peuvent avoir sur les gens<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Dans ces temps de Grande Crise et  d&rsquo;une sorte de \u00ab\u00a0crise totalitaire\u00a0\u00bb au-del\u00e0 d&rsquo;une crise de civilisation, la remarque est bienvenue pour d\u00e9crire l&rsquo;extraordinaire \u00ab\u00a0crise de la drogue\u00a0\u00bb qui frappe les Etats-Unis. (Les bonnes m\u00e9moires se souviendront qu&rsquo;en 1986, Nancy Reagan avait, \u00e0 la demande de son mari et devant la mont\u00e9e des p\u00e9rils, pris le r\u00f4le de porte-drapeau d&rsquo;une croisade en d\u00e9clarant \u00ab\u00a0la guerre contre la drogue\u00a0\u00bb que, d\u00e9j\u00e0, les cartels d\u00e9versaient aux USA. Cette guerre est donc la plus longue de l&rsquo;histoire des USA, bien plus longue que celle d&rsquo;Afghanistan [o&ugrave; la CIA aidait d\u00e9j\u00e0 les pavots \u00e0 fleurir] et encore plus ingagnable, sans nul doute.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Dans son introduction, Snyder \u00e9crit ceci pour embrasser l&rsquo;ampleur du probl\u00e8me :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>Il n&rsquo;y a jamais eu aucune \u00e9poque dans notre histoire o&ugrave; plus d&rsquo;Am\u00e9ricains ont pris de la drogue. Selon les chiffres les plus r\u00e9cents du gouvernement, 24,6 millions d&rsquo;Am\u00e9ricains ont consomm\u00e9 une drogue ill\u00e9gale au cours des 30 derniers jours. Bien s&ucirc;r, le nombre d&rsquo;Am\u00e9ricains qui prennent des drogues l\u00e9gales est beaucoup, beaucoup plus \u00e9lev\u00e9. Selon Bloomberg, 46 pour cent de tous les Am\u00e9ricains ont pris au moins une drogue pharmaceutique l\u00e9gale au cours des 30 derniers jours. Dans la plupart des cas, ces drogues l\u00e9gales ont \u00e9t\u00e9 prescrites par des m\u00e9decins dans l&rsquo;intention d&rsquo;aider les gens, mais dans nombre de cas les drogues l\u00e9gales cr\u00e9ent une d\u00e9pendance encore plus grande que les drogues ill\u00e9gales. Les opio\u00efdes ont d\u00e9truit un nombre tr\u00e8s \u00e9lev\u00e9 de vies am\u00e9ricaines au cours de la derni\u00e8re d\u00e9cennie et, dans de nombreux cas, ceux qui sont devenus d\u00e9pendants l&rsquo;ont \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u00e9galement. Aujourd&rsquo;hui, les Am\u00e9ricains consomment environ 80 pour cent de l&rsquo;approvisionnement mondial total en opio\u00efdes, et c&rsquo;est une crise nationale majeure. Mais m\u00eame si nous pouvions nous d\u00e9barrasser de tous les opio\u00efdes, nous serions toujours le pays le plus drogu\u00e9 de la plan\u00e8te enti\u00e8re. Nous sommes devenus une nation de d\u00e9pendants, et la voie autodestructrice sur laquelle nous nous sommes engag\u00e9s n&rsquo;a pas de fin positive<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Aujourd&rsquo;hui, l&rsquo;incontournable vedette est la <em>Meth<\/em>, ou <em>Ice<\/em>, ou Speed, ou etc., avec tant de surnoms dans l&rsquo;argot de la drogue pour d\u00e9signer la famille au d\u00e9part m\u00e9dicamenteuse de la  <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%A9thamph%C3%A9tamine\">M\u00e9thamph\u00e9tamine<\/a>. Son histoire est d&rsquo;une ambigu\u00eft\u00e9 extr\u00eame dans ses emplois, comme tant de productions extr\u00eames de la modernit\u00e9, puisqu&rsquo;elle fut aussi bien un instrument pour que les soldats surmontent leurs fatigues et leurs terreurs dans les conflits les plus sanglants du XX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, qu&rsquo;une trouvaille de l&rsquo;industrie de la pharmacie pour apaiser les angoisses de cette m\u00eame modernit\u00e9, d&rsquo;abord par le biais de l&rsquo;intervention de la m\u00e9decine consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme auxiliaire de la bonne tenue dans cette \u00e9poque si pleine d&rsquo;exc\u00e8s de z\u00e8le et de simulacres (il est annonc\u00e9 que, chaque ann\u00e9e aux USA, les m\u00e9decins fournissent 300 millions de prescriptions pour cette sorte de \u00ab\u00a0magie\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 leurs patients). La voici aujourd&rsquo;hui, la <em>Meth<\/em>, qui est mise en \u00e9vidence comme instrument central du triomphe de l&rsquo;addiction de l'\u00a0\u00bbhomme moderne\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 un moyen de repr\u00e9sentation magique du monde, &ndash; quelque chose qui pourrait \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme le travail du diable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>En attendant, vous observez que les \u00ab\u00a0cartels\u00a0\u00bb mexicains se sont absolument adapt\u00e9s \u00e0 cette (r)\u00e9volution et produisent \u00e0 tout-va, montrant combien ils ont bien assimil\u00e9 les enseignements de la modernit\u00e9 et combien, au fond, ils sont parfaitement \u00e0 leur place dans la modernit\u00e9. Peut-\u00eatre s&rsquo;agit-il d&rsquo;un probl\u00e8me plus grave encore que les migrants ill\u00e9gaux, quelque chose qu&rsquo;aucun \u00ab\u00a0Mur\u00a0\u00bb ne pourra jamais arr\u00eater et qui justifierait, dans un geste de d\u00e9sespoir, ou de soudaine pouss\u00e9e de communication d&rsquo;un pr\u00e9sident Trump, que l&rsquo;hyperpuissance militaire des Etats-Unis envisage  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/notes-sur-la-frontiere-sud\">une incursion<\/a> qui sera \u00e9videmment catastrophique <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/1848-redux-envahir-le-mexique\">au Mexique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>Les producteurs de m\u00e9thamph\u00e9tamine au Mexique acc\u00e9l\u00e8rent la cadence de production, et le m\u00e9dicament fait un retour en force aux &Eacute;tats-Unis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&raquo; <em>\u00ab\u00a0C&rsquo;est probablement le plus grave probl\u00e8me que nous ayons en Am\u00e9rique\u00a0\u00bb, d\u00e9clare \u00e0 Yahoo Finance Derek Maltz, ancien chef de la Division des op\u00e9rations sp\u00e9ciales de la Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). \u00ab\u00a0Les cartels mexicains&#8230; ils atteignent des niveaux de production qu&rsquo;on n&rsquo;a jamais vus auparavant. Les affaires marchent bien, le pays est accro, et c&rsquo;est vraiment, vraiment hors de contr\u00f4le.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&raquo; <em>Un autre ancien agent de la DEA, Kevin Hartmann, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 \u00e0 une cha&icirc;ne de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision locale au Texas qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agissait d&rsquo;une structure de production de \u00ab\u00a0super labos\u00a0\u00bb. \u00ab\u00a0Des super labos qui peuvent produire plusieurs centaines de kilos de m\u00e9thamph\u00e9tamine.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>[..]<\/p>\n<p>&raquo; <em>A cause de d\u00e9cennie de n\u00e9gligence en mati\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 frontali\u00e8re, les grands cartels mexicains de la drogue sont en mesure d&rsquo;acheminer de la drogue dans ce pays \u00e0 un rythme stup\u00e9fiant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&raquo; <em>Et maintenant, ils ont apparemment mis au point une nouvelle forme de m\u00e9thamph\u00e9tamine qui est plus forte et moins ch\u00e8re qu&rsquo;avant&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&raquo; <em>\u00ab\u00a0Principalement import\u00e9e du Mexique par les principaux trafiquants de drogue, la &lsquo;Meth 2.0&rsquo; est plus forte, moins ch\u00e8re et beaucoup plus abondante que l&rsquo;ancienne vari\u00e9t\u00e9 faite maison. Et avec les niveaux historiques de financement du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral qui se sont concentr\u00e9s exclusivement sur la lutte contre la d\u00e9pendance aux opiac\u00e9s, les &Eacute;tats et les comt\u00e9s s&rsquo;efforcent de trouver des ressources pour combattre ce fl\u00e9au de la drogue le plus r\u00e9cent&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb <\/em>&raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>L&rsquo;ampleur gigantesque du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne autant que les terribles pressions de la Grande Crise qui nous \u00e9crase conduisent naturellement \u00e0 observer et \u00e0 commenter ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne en des termes spirituels, que ce soit pour \u00e9voquer une b\u00e9n\u00e9diction ou une mal\u00e9diction. Une drogu\u00e9e \u00e0 la <em>Meth <\/em>qui vient de r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 s&rsquo;en sortir au moins pour le moment pr\u00e9sent, explique cette \u00e9vidence dans des termes mystiques de possession et de lib\u00e9ration : &laquo; <em>C&rsquo;est comme si Dieu vous disait que si vous en respirez \u00e0 nouveau une dose, vos enfants mourront. Vous faites tous les efforts possible pour ne pas c\u00e9der, mais un jour ou l&rsquo;autre vous succombez. C&rsquo;est comme cela que \u00e7a se passe. Votre cerveau n&rsquo;arr\u00eate pas de vous maudire pour votre faiblesse<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Il est effectivement difficile de ne pas raisonner, lorsqu&rsquo;on parvient \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer sa raison des pesanteurs du Syst\u00e8me, en termes de spiritualit\u00e9. Cette immense crise de la drogue aux USA, comme tant d&rsquo;autres immenses crises dont accouche la modernit\u00e9 dont ces m\u00eames USA sont issus, appara&icirc;t comme une sorte d&#8217;emprisonnement sans fin des \u00eatres aux d\u00e9mons de cette entit\u00e9 productrice de tourbillons crisiques qu&rsquo;est devenue la modernit\u00e9 sans masque. Il est quasiment impossible de n&rsquo;y pas voir la repr\u00e9sentation de batailles cosmiques et mythiques, des affrontements entre le Bien et le Mal, des imageries d&rsquo;Armageddons divers et sans nombre. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>L&rsquo;effet du  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/duregne-de-la-quantite\">R\u00e8gne de la quantit\u00e9<\/a> <\/em>est tellement immense, par la masse de lui-m\u00eame qu&rsquo;il produit, qu&rsquo;il finit par appara&icirc;tre symboliquement pour ce qu&rsquo;il est, comme la production du d\u00e9mon. C&rsquo;est une situation finalement tr\u00e8s ambigu\u00eb, entre ceux qui voient l&rsquo;esp\u00e8ce humaine succomber \u00e0 une sorte de zombification qui interdirait toute r\u00e9action, tout sentiment de r\u00e9volte, et ces faits de communication qui contribuent avec une puissance extraordinaire \u00e0 augmenter notre angoisse, \u00e0 distinguer le d\u00e9mon qui nous d\u00e9vore, \u00e0 faire prosp\u00e9rer en nous le sentiment de l&rsquo;urgence de la r\u00e9sistance, de la sauvegarde. Tout cela, sous nos yeux et sous notre plume&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Ci-dessous, donc, le texte de Michael Snyder, repris cette fois par <em><a href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/we-are-in-the-midst-of-the-worst-drug-crisis-in-american-history\">TheMostImportantNews.com<\/a> <\/em>et  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/we-are-midst-worst-drug-crisis-american-history\">ZeroHedge.com<\/a> <\/em>le 16 d\u00e9cembre 2019, sous le titre de &laquo; <em>We Are In The Midst Of The Worst Drug Crisis In American History<\/em> &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4><em>dedefensa.org<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>_________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:1.65em; font-variant:small-caps\">&laquo; &#8230; <em>The Worst Drug Crisis In American History<\/em> &raquo;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There has never been a time in our history when more Americans have been on drugs. According to the most recent government numbers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/rates-of-illicit-drug-abuse-in-the-us-67027\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"24.6 million Americans\">24.6 million Americans<\/a> have used an illegal drug within the last 30 days. Of course the number of Americans taking legal drugs is actually far, far higher. According  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-05-08\/nearly-one-in-two-americans-takes-prescription-drugs-survey\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"to Bloomberg\">to Bloomberg<\/a>, 46 percent of all Americans have taken at least one legal pharmaceutical drug within the last 30 days. In most instances, those legal drugs have been prescribed by doctors with the intention of helping people, but sometimes legal drugs are even more addictive than illegal drugs are. In particular, opioids have destroyed countless American lives over the past decade, and in so many cases those that got addicted originally got them legally. Today, Americans consume approximately  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/04\/27\/americans-consume-almost-all-of-the-global-opioid-supply.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"80 percent\">80 percen<\/a>   of the total global supply of opioids, and it is a major national crisis. But even if we were able to get rid of all the opioids, we would still be the most drugged up nation on the entire planet. We have become a nation of addicts, and the self-destructive path that we are on does not have a positive ending.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Whenever I come across a story about a really crazy crime that someone has committed, it almost always involves drugs. For example, just check out this doozy  <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/12\/09\/stripper-sex-boyfriends-disabled-star-wars-obsessed-son-decapitated-11514455\/?utm_source=fark&#038;utm_medium=website&#038;utm_content=link&#038;ICID=ref_fark\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"from West Virginia\">from West Virginia<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>A stripper has been convicted of beheading her boyfriend&rsquo;s disabled Star Wars-obsessed son after having sex with him. Roena Cheryl Mills, 43, was last Thursday found guilty of the first-degree murder of 29 year-old Bo White at a house in Lerona, West Virginia, in April 2018. Mills &ndash; who has the phrase &lsquo;special kinda crazy&rsquo; tattooed across her chest &ndash; reportedly targeted Bo after having sex with him in return for drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The stronger the addiction, the more desperate addicts become to get their next fix.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And very desperate people do very desperate things.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>One of the first things that you will notice when drugs start taking over an area is that crime goes way up. Addicts are always looking for a way to fund their lifestyles, and retailers all over the nation are being hit particularly hard right now.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In fact, Home Depot is specifically blaming  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/home-depot-ties-opioid-crisis-to-recent-surge-in-store-theft\/ar-AAK1gSN\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"the opioid crisis\">\u00ab\u00a0the opioid crisis\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>  for the epidemic of theft that they have been witnessing&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>The company said organized criminals are stealing millions of dollars&rsquo; worth of goods from it and other retailers and storing the merchandise in warehouses. The theft, which retailers call shrink, has gotten so bad that it will narrow Home Depot&rsquo;s operating profit margins next year, executives said during a meeting with analysts and investors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>\u00ab\u00a0This is happening everywhere in retail,\u00a0\u00bb Chief Executive Officer Craig Menear said. <\/em><em>\u00ab\u00a0We think this ties to the opioid crisis, but we&rsquo;re not positive about that.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Each year, doctors issue  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/04\/27\/americans-consume-almost-all-of-the-global-opioid-supply.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"approximately 300 million prescriptions\">approximately 300 million prescriptions<\/a>  for pain medications.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That number is way, way too high, and so many Americans end up as addicts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There has been an effort to educate the American people about these drugs in recent years, but most of us still don&rsquo;t realize how incredibly dangerous they can be.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sadly, the number of Americans dying from opioid overdoses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johngoodman\/2019\/11\/26\/opioids-are-killing-us-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it\/#56dd4f4e3f70\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"continues to steadily grow\">continues to steadily grow<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>More than 61,300 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses in 2017, up from the previous year&rsquo;s record of 54,800. (See the graphic.) That&rsquo;s more than the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War. And it&rsquo;s happening every year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Opioids are directly or indirectly responsible for about 70 percent of those overdose deaths.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If you can believe it, the number of Americans dying from drug overdoses has actually  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johngoodman\/2019\/11\/26\/opioids-are-killing-us-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it\/#56dd4f4e3f70\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"more than doubled\">more than doubled<\/a>  since 2010.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>So many people never would have imagined that their doctors would prescribe them something that is highly addictive and highly dangerous, and once you are hooked it can be exceedingly difficult to escape.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The New York Times has said that what we are facing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/31\/books\/review\/beth-macy-dopesick.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"the worst drug crisis in American history\">\u00ab\u00a0the worst drug crisis in American history\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, and for once I actually agree with the New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I have mostly focused on opioids so far in this article, but there are so many other classes of drugs that are also a massive problem in the U.S. right now.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In fact, federal officials are telling us that meth <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/meth-us-big-comeback-145207167.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"is making a big comeback\">\u00ab\u00a0is making a big comeback\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> in this country&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Meth producers in Mexico are cranking up the speed of production, and the drug is making a big comeback in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>\u00ab\u00a0Across the country, it&rsquo;s probably still the largest problem we have in America,\u00a0\u00bb Derek Maltz, former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration&rsquo;s (DEA) Special Operations Division, told Yahoo Finance. \u00ab\u00a0The Mexican cartels&hellip; they make it at levels that we&rsquo;ve never seen before. So business is booming, the country&rsquo;s addicted, and it&rsquo;s really, really out of control.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>\u00ab\u00a0We&rsquo;re talking super labs,\u00a0\u00bb another former DEA agent, Kevin Hartmann, told a local TV station in Texas. \u00ab\u00a0Super labs that can produce multi hundred kilograms of methamphetamine.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Meth is insanely addictive, and it will literally take over your life once you open the door.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When asked about her multi-year addiction, one opioid addict  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/11\/02\/meth-use-surges-stronger-cheaper-drugs-imported-mexico\/4124765002\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"described it this way\">described it this way<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Erika Haas calls it \u00ab\u00a0the pull.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>When Haas was 24, her doctor prescribed OxyContin for back pain. She quickly progressed to heroin &ndash; and then to methamphetamines. Now 30 and in recovery,  she described  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2019\/11\/01\/as-meth-use-surges-one-region-tries-to-combat-the-pull\">the grip that meth<\/a> had over her for more than five years.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>\u00ab\u00a0It&rsquo;s like God tells you that if you take another breath, your children will die,\u00a0\u00bb she said, shaking her head and trying to hold back tears. <\/em><em>\u00ab\u00a0You do everything you can not to take a breath. But eventually you do. That&rsquo;s what it&rsquo;s like. Your brain just screams at you.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Thanks to decades of border security neglect, the big Mexican drug cartels are able to pump drugs into this country at a staggering rate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And now they have apparently come up with a new form of meth that is  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/11\/02\/meth-use-surges-stronger-cheaper-drugs-imported-mexico\/4124765002\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"stronger and cheaper than before\">stronger and cheaper than before<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Primarily imported from Mexico by major drug traffickers, \u00ab\u00a0meth 2.0\u00a0\u00bb is stronger, cheaper and far more plentiful than the old home-cooked variety. And with historic levels of funding from the federal government focused exclusively on fighting opioid addiction, states and counties are scrambling to find resources to combat this most recent drug plague.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Law enforcement officials are doing the best that they can to fight back, but without sufficient border security it is often a losing battle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In South Dakota, they recently came up with a new slogan to show that they are trying to fight back:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/south-dakota-s-meth-we-re-it-campaign-funny-state-n1086071\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Meth. We're on it.\">\u00ab\u00a0Meth. We&rsquo;re on it.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A lot of people got a good laugh out of that, but unfortunately that slogan accurately describes what is happening in community after community all across the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The ancient Greeks used the word  <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/5331.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"pharmakeia\">\u00ab\u00a0pharmakeia\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>  to describe the mystical pull that these sorts of drugs can have on people. This is a crisis that just seems to get bigger with each passing year, and it is one of the primary causes for the social decay  <a href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/michael-snyders-warning-to-america\" title=\"that we see all around us\">that we see all around us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Those that have been snared by these drugs need our love and compassion, because they are truly victims of a relentless war against our nation. So many lives have already been destroyed, and we desperately need our politicians on the national level to start taking this threat a whole lot more seriously.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>Michael Snyder<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magie crisique, masque diabolique, modernit\u00e9&#8230; Rien ne vaut pour oublier, &ndash; la peur, l&rsquo;angoisse, la peine, l&rsquo;impuissance, la l\u00e2chet\u00e9, la fatalit\u00e9, l&rsquo;inconnu, &ndash; rien ne vaut dans nos temps postmoderne d&rsquo;une modernit\u00e9-tardive\/modernit\u00e9-informe, ce que les Grecs Anciens nommaient pharmakeia. 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