I take it that many at that point are just trying to numb themselves and then try not to get sick with withdrawal. I think many got priced out of their opioid/benzo pill habit or can’t get a legit perscription for their habit. So they turn to heroin, it’s cheaper than pills on the street but the potency isn’t standard. So the cartels saw a business opportunity and flooded the market with heroin from poppy fields in Mexico. The fentanyl they cut it with is supposedly more addicting and they can lessen their exposure by having less poppy fields and poppy harvesters because they can just make it in a lab.
I think the rise in the suicide rate of middle aged white women over the last 15 years has a lot to do with the pill/heroin epidemic.
Freegads
I agree. It's a terrible life being on pills to get the semblance of the active life I used to live before my back fell apart.
My Dr has prescribed Naloxone to every patient in his office for the purpose of saving life's of od victims. I have 4 epi- pen type devises in my medicine chest.
But I must emphasize. I don't play around with meds. I love my husband and life too much, I don't want to die.