Posted on 12/22/2020 1:09:34 PM PST by ransomnote
Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the final data on drug overdose deaths for 2019 in the United States. The report showed an overall increase in drug-related poisonings, primarily associated with increased fentanyl, stimulants including methamphetamine and cocaine, and poly-drug involvement. The data also showed a continued decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths involving heroin as well as natural and semi-synthetic opioids, which mostly includes FDA-approved drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine; overdoses involving specific prescription opioids like these declined five percent in 2019 as compared to 2018. It warrants noting that this category previously declined by more than 13 percent from 2017 to 2018. This cumulative decrease — and now downward trend — is substantial and encouraging.
“Last year’s drug mortality data makes it clear: innovations in illicit substance combinations, and a stark spike in the amount of lethal methamphetamine smuggled into the United States from Mexico, took a heartbreaking toll on the United States in 2019,” ONDCP Director Jim Carroll stated. “Almost all of the illegal drugs killing people and shattering families are coming from outside of the United States. It is apparent that continued vigilance at our Nation’s Borders is necessary to keep illicit substances off of American soil and out of our communities. Yet within the grim overall numbers, there are rays of hope: opioid-related deaths involving opioid analgesics excluding fentanyl continue to fall year-over-year since President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency in 2017. By taking the whole-of-government approach championed by the Trump Administration to address the opioid crisis, and applying it to the scourge of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and other deadly synthetics, we can begin to turn the tide and ensure fewer American lives are lost, and those suffering from substance use disorder are connected with treatment and hope.”
The CDC’s annual release of mortality data is sourced from the Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database. WONDER makes many health-related data sets available to CDC staff, public health departments, researchers, and others. These data help with public health research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.
Since that ceremony, I noticed more and more that drug busts included the words "tainted with fentanyl" when describing drug content, or saying that the seized product was more concentrated than the person was told.
Drug dealers usually dilute something like cocaine if profit is the motive. China, along with other enemies, seems to be flooding the US with drugs like cocaine that are tainted with powerful fentanyl. I've read stories of people "dropping like flies" around the town within an hour of purchasing the drugs - they are that strong, toxic and meant to kill. This allows China to kill Americans without firing a shot.
No, not cocaine tainted with fentanyl, it’s heroin that gets tainted with fentanyl. They’re both opiates, so both will satisfy the junkie’s craving, but fentanyl is much more powerful so if the junkie thinks they are shooting heroin and it’s 50% fentanyl, then they are dead.
Seems to be mostly stupid drug dealers who are doing the cutting, because fentanyl is cheaper and easier to get than real heroin. Of course if the junkies die this is not a sustainable long-term business plan, but most drug dealers are not business majors.
That’s what happened to my nephew in Ohio last year.
One day out of the rehab center, and one big shot of fenty.
RIP.
Heroin is far more potent than fentanyl.
Cocaine is very much being cut with fentanyl. About one third of the cocaine overdose deaths last year were from users ingesting cocaine laced with fentanyl.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fentanyl+laced+cocaine+deaths&atb=v1-1&ia=web
What? Why would you think that?
Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, while heroin is only about twice as powerful as morphine.
Why would anyone have any use for fentanyl if it were weaker than the opiates that have already been around for over 100 years? Doesn’t make any sense.
Hadn’t heard about that, but that’s even stupider. At least heroin addicts might be wary of it; cocaine users are going to be totally off guard.
Heroin ins a schedule 1 narcotic with potency so high as tk have jim medicinal value. There is a reason why one cannot prescribe heroin despite being a pure pain killer.
Fentanyl is a schedule 2 medication and In the IV form has a very short half life. It’s analogues carfenta and sufenta are far more potent than fentanyl itself. It is these analogies that are far more dangerous and deadly.
Based on my read of the autopsy, George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. He was *NOT* asphyxiated.
Yes, heroin is a schedule 1 narcotic, but the potency has little to do with it, since there are a many opiates that are more powerful than heroin which are not on schedule 1 (hydromorphone, for example, is more powerful than heroin, and available for prescription).
“It’s analogues carfenta and sufenta are far more potent than fentanyl itself.”
Yes, but fentanyl itself is still more powerful than heroin. Why would there be an epidemic of overdoses resulting from people cutting heroin with fentanyl if fentanyl were WEAKER than heroin? That doesn’t make any kind of sense.
Our government knows all, and only ever acts in our interest.
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