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Our Apimang, today's Tuesday, it is November 21st.

Welcome to the Dog walk presented by Barcelona

here with Chief as always Chief how are you last episode before Thanksgiving?

Yeah so let's make it things that we're thankful for, keep it light, all that kind of stuff, right?

No, we're not going to keep it light at all, as you people saw from the title.

Very heavy topic.

Yeah, so this is something I think we've touched on as part of different episodes where you know we talked about we did a review of what was the name of that show?

Dop-Sick, about the Sackler family and the opioid crisis here and then, you know, I think we did another episode about the opium wars which involved China.

We've done things about the Mexican drug cartels and all of that kind of comes together

and now we're going to get into like the business and the

international kind of diplomacy and jockeying around the fentanyl trade because it is

a huge business and it's you know several different

organizations that are consistently butting heads and who ends up losing out

on that is ultimately the American people and in all sorts of different ways but obviously the death toll.

And this is not just a fentanyl stat. This is a stat for all opio use. So OxyContin, you know, the prescription from Purdue Pharma and others, heroin, and including fentanyl. There have been over a million deaths related to

opioid overdoses since 1999. It's the number one killer of men ages 18 to 45.

So, and it just keeps going up in 2021.

There are over 80,000 overdose deaths in the United States.

So it's like an astonishing stat.

Before we do that, I want to talk about Roback,

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