.....”No one dies from opioid addiction. They die from overdosing on opioids”.....
A distinction which is seldom mentioned yet is the actual reason they snuff out their own life.
I have never seen any statistics which distinguished between self-administered “accidental” overdoses and plain suicide. And I wonder how one distinguishes between the two.
In attempting to remove all personal responsibility from drug deaths (I wonder) is the deliberate taking of one’s own life not seriously considered by those who compile the statistics?
It would seem many probably most families (quite understandably) would prefer to explain the death of a loved one not as suicide but as the result of some evil, impersonal force like “opioid addiction.”
We go to great efforts in this country to avoid seeing things the way they actually are which (IMO) is the result of the infantilization of America.