Posted on 10/25/2019 7:38:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Methamphetamine was the drug most frequently involved in overdose deaths in the regions that include Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada and Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Typically, fentanyl, along with white powder heroin, has been more common east of the Mississippi River, and Mexican black tar and brown powder heroin has been more commonly found west of the Mississippi.
In 2017, the latest year for which complete data is available, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses. Opioids such as fentanyl and heroin represented about 68% of those deaths
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70,000 dead. That’s about two years of car crashes.
Or 5-6 years of non suicide deaths by guns which includes murder, negligent discharge, self defense, etc.
That’s one way to have fewer drug addicts.
It’s crazy.
Almost 24 times as many people died in 2017 from OD as people killed on 9/11.
That crap is bad news.
How much of this human pesticide comes here via the southern border?
Abuse of any drug is a CHOICE. Since you know it could kill you but do it anyway, don’t expect my sympathy, except for your survivors in their grief.
EXACTLY!! Why don’t all those in Government support the tightening of our border?? Instead, they go after Doctors and Drug Companies who provide pain relief for patients who need it.
Our Southern Border is so porous, millions in illegal drug money/drugs flows easily across it.........
BUILD THE WALL!! (And lessen the amount of drugs that kill, coming into our country!)
My niece turned 30 in 2014. Died a couple months later. Some kind of drug overdose. I don’t know the details.
She wasn’t “the type” people would see and assume “drug user”.
It is sad.
Fentanyl is said to be the deadliest drug of all time. Small amounts kill millions of people, yet we can’t find reliable drugs to execute people.
... yet we can’t find reliable drugs to execute people.
Any good general anesthetic + paralytic + KCl will work just fine
If fentanyl was as deadly as they make it out to be, there wouldn’t be any repeat users. No doubt it’s a very stout drug, but overall, methinks they’re bull$hitting us.
I know of a very religious family who had a 24 year old son, also very devout. This summer he died of an overdose from what I have heard was his FIRST TIME trying something, out of curiosity. Social media is f-ing millions of kids up by reducing human contact, presenting unreal lives that makes them feel unworthy or worthless, and altering their brain receptors to make them crave “likes” and emojis which act like self esteem drug injections. It is REALLY bad out there, and I am waist deep in it with 3 teen kids. Please pray for them, and all American teens, especially of faith.
I have been involved in a few cases of kids eating
Fentanyl patches they stole from parents/grandparents.
Brain “forgets” to breath...
It’s really hard for me to imagine someone looking back from the year 2050 and thinking that the rise of the 24 hour news cycle, smart phones and social media was this really great thing for society.
Freegards
It’s not that fentanyl is so deadly, it’s just that dealers mix fentanyl into heroin and don’t tell the users they are selling to.
So an addict cooks up their regular dose of heroin that they can normally take without much risk, because of their tolerance, but when it’s loaded with fentanyl, that dose is now deadly. If the addict knew it was fentanyl, they would probably cook up a much smaller dose and be fine.
That isn’t happening at the level of the suppliers, where it would be killing off all the addicts in the area. It’s the street level dealers who are doing this to make more money. So it only kills a relatively small number of addicts every time, but it happens often enough to add up to some pretty serious numbers over time.
Yer prolly right, but they don’t have overblow it and deceive us.
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