What Makes People Want The Deadly Effects Of Fentanyl?

In an October 13th article the Toronto Star focused on the deadly effects of the powerful effects of the synthetic opioid fentanyl in Downtown Eastside, a Vancouver neighborhood where many residents struggle with poverty, addiction and health problems, both mental and physical. 

A woman, Sarah Blyth, was determined to slow down the spread of fentanyl, which has tainted nearly all illicit drugs in British Columbia and is now spreading all over Canada, so she started the first overdose prevention site in Downtown Eastside. She knew if she trained volunteers to administer the reversal drug naloxone it would save lives, but the major problem was it illegal. Blyth persevered until the authorities in Vancouver and B.C. decided to act by opening more overdose prevention sites.

 It sounds like a great story, but the trouble is that the efforts of Ms. Blyth and her fellow volunteers, however commendable they are, is like someone trying to stop the tide coming in with only a bucket. In 2017 there were 1,450 deaths from fentanyl in B.C. and this year the best month so far has yielded 133. At the end of the year they are expecting a record 1,750. 

The question should not be, " how can we prevent the spread of this drug'', but, '' What makes people want to take it?''

For socialism, 

Mehmet, John & contributing members of the SPC