Posted on 01/19/2017 7:07:46 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
The opioid epidemic continues to worsen in the U.S., with more people dying from heroin overdoses than firearm homicides, melanoma or HIV-related causes, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2015 at least 13,150 people died of heroin overdose, according to the CDC Wonder database, which houses public health data. .. firearm homicides .... was 12,974, .... HIV was 6,465 deaths. ... melanoma ... 9,940 deaths in 2015.
The staggering number of deaths related to heroin use is just a part of the toll of the opioid epidemic. In 2014, 28,000 people died from opioid overdoses -- which includes heroin overdoses -- and half were due to prescription drugs.
Dr. Caleb Alexander, co-director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, said the heroin overdose numbers ... were "alarming" and ... "Both heroin and illicit fentanyl are really complicating efforts to try and reduce opioid-related injuries and deaths," ... Fentanyl is an opioid often made and sold illicitly that can be as much as 100 times more potent than heroin.
... addicts have multiple avenues to find and take opioids from prescription drugs to illicit substances like heroin or fentanyl or even veterinary opioids like carfentanil, which was designed to sedate elephants. "There are a lot of different sources of this products," Alexander said. "The underlying things that fuel this is the vast number of Americans that is physically dependent or addicted to the product."
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Unfortunately, the pharmacology change drives many to shift to heroin.
They are all the same.
And Obama just let hundreds out of prison today, who WILL help to increase those numbers.
I’m sure glad we let those illegal scum scurry across the border with bags of dope. I hope we start using armed drones against them.
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Obama released 330 drug dealers serving life sentences today and four Mexican drug cartel leaders.
Oh well.
You want to use armed drones against your local pharmacist? More people kill themselves by drugs obtained from the local drugstore than they do from drugs obtained from a drug dealer.
I just heard that Obama pardoned 300 drug dealers.
The illicit trade is inconsistent in pharmacology making it much more lethal.
This by itself tell what Obama wishes for the USA.
Yes and let’s kill all liquor store owners, cigarette store owners and car dealers too.
Opioid bump.
Obama’s new cottage industry!!
More problems owned by the liberals . . .. The Drug Culture
“The illicit trade is inconsistent in pharmacology making it much more lethal.”
Yes, but more people are killed by drugs obtained from their doctor and pharmacist than are killed by drugs obtained from a drug dealer.
The bottom line is that a junkie is a junkie and it makes no difference who his supplier happens to be.
“Yes and let’s kill all liquor store owners, cigarette store owners and car dealers too.”
People will make their own decisions and often times people die from their decisions.
In the end, it does not matter who supplies the vice, pharmacist, liquor store, tobacco company or drug dealer.
Most herion in this country was made from mexican poppies
Heroin deaths are like suicide, self administered and voluntary.I feel bad that a kid takes that first bite but after the third one he is no longer a functioning human being. and no longer has my sympathy. Same for meth or crack.
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