Posted on 08/13/2016 10:49:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The number of drug overdose deaths has soared by 73% in the city over the last five years, data released Tuesday by the Health Department show.
There were 937 accidental fatal ODs in 2015 up from 800 the year before, and from 541 in 2010.
The rate of people dying from drug overdoses jumped for the fifth-straight year, to 13.6 for every 100,000 residents a 66% jump from 2010.
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You are right. But you are using a rational brain.
Whether an up or a down is the interest of a tweaker, not an addict. An addict suffering withdrawal from pain killers which he can no longer acquire is going to get relief the quickest, easiest and cheapest way possible. Meth fills that bill. That the relief is contra-indicated, doesn’t last all that long and causes an even more painful crash means nothing. He will just get and use more. The euphoria is the only goal. Once meth became difficult to manufacture, heroin comes to fill the void.
Nearly 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.10
Thank god the Feds clamped down on doctors giving out prescription drugs.
No, Meth doesn’t fill the bill.
Heroin and Meth are two entirety different drugs and Meth does nothing for opiate W/D’s except likely make them worse.
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