Lev Facher

So one plausible theory is that fentanyl concentrations are lower. The fentanyl analogs, the specific chemical compounds in drugs are less likely to cause overdose. But again, it's just a theory at this point. A second explanation is just that drug use behavior is getting safer, which is to say that people are using drugs more slowly maybe.

There's been a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking fentanyl. There's also been an increase in the availability of certain harm reduction services like test strips that people use to detect the presence of fentanyl or xylosine. So people doing party drugs, people doing counterfeit pills that they bought on the Internet, they can actually test whatever they're using before they use it.

There's been a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking fentanyl. There's also been an increase in the availability of certain harm reduction services like test strips that people use to detect the presence of fentanyl or xylosine. So people doing party drugs, people doing counterfeit pills that they bought on the Internet, they can actually test whatever they're using before they use it.

There's been a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking fentanyl. There's also been an increase in the availability of certain harm reduction services like test strips that people use to detect the presence of fentanyl or xylosine. So people doing party drugs, people doing counterfeit pills that they bought on the Internet, they can actually test whatever they're using before they use it.

So you don't have people unknowingly using fentanyl and dying of overdoses that way. But then the third explanation is probably the most bleak. It's a concept called the depletion of susceptibles. And that's just to say that so many people have already died of drug overdoses that there aren't as many drug users left to die. And – You know, that's not necessarily a mainstream theory.

So you don't have people unknowingly using fentanyl and dying of overdoses that way. But then the third explanation is probably the most bleak. It's a concept called the depletion of susceptibles. And that's just to say that so many people have already died of drug overdoses that there aren't as many drug users left to die. And – You know, that's not necessarily a mainstream theory.

So you don't have people unknowingly using fentanyl and dying of overdoses that way. But then the third explanation is probably the most bleak. It's a concept called the depletion of susceptibles. And that's just to say that so many people have already died of drug overdoses that there aren't as many drug users left to die. And – You know, that's not necessarily a mainstream theory.

And even if it were accepted, it probably wouldn't explain the full significant sudden decrease in drug deaths. But when you think about it, when you have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people dying of drug overdoses over the course of a pretty short span, it does make sense in some way that the population of people dying left to die is smaller.

And even if it were accepted, it probably wouldn't explain the full significant sudden decrease in drug deaths. But when you think about it, when you have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people dying of drug overdoses over the course of a pretty short span, it does make sense in some way that the population of people dying left to die is smaller.

And even if it were accepted, it probably wouldn't explain the full significant sudden decrease in drug deaths. But when you think about it, when you have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people dying of drug overdoses over the course of a pretty short span, it does make sense in some way that the population of people dying left to die is smaller.

And that's just kind of the bleak reality we're facing. That's how bad this crisis is.

And that's just kind of the bleak reality we're facing. That's how bad this crisis is.

And that's just kind of the bleak reality we're facing. That's how bad this crisis is.

Yeah, of course, depends who you ask. Both presidents approached the crisis the way you would expect, given their respective parties' historic view of drug addiction and how to best combat that issue.

Yeah, of course, depends who you ask. Both presidents approached the crisis the way you would expect, given their respective parties' historic view of drug addiction and how to best combat that issue.

Yeah, of course, depends who you ask. Both presidents approached the crisis the way you would expect, given their respective parties' historic view of drug addiction and how to best combat that issue.

Trump took a much more supply-side approach, which is to say he focused more, he talked more about law enforcement, about drugs being smuggled in illegally via the southern border or even via the mail.

Trump took a much more supply-side approach, which is to say he focused more, he talked more about law enforcement, about drugs being smuggled in illegally via the southern border or even via the mail.

Trump took a much more supply-side approach, which is to say he focused more, he talked more about law enforcement, about drugs being smuggled in illegally via the southern border or even via the mail.

Biden, on the other hand, took a much more demand-side approach.