Posted on 03/18/2017 9:26:32 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
By about 3 p.m. Friday, a county morgue in east Ohio was already full — and more bodies were expected.
Rick Walters, an investigator for the Stark County coroner's office, had just left for two death scenes: a suicide and an overdose.
From the road, he called the director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency to ask for help. He needed more space, he explained — specifically, a cold-storage trailer to act as an overflow morgue.
As with much of the United States, Ohio is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic that shows no signs of abating.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Am I my brothers keeper?”
“Well... yes, yes I am.”
NOW is the time to end the death cult and all of its various constituencies.
Quick, let’s legalize drugs so people will quit dying! /sarc
Kind of tracks with the acceptance and legalization of marijuana, doesn't it?
When the milieu is that some recreational drug us is acceptable, more people will use drugs.
We asked for this.
I believe you are misinformed.
“Quick, let’s legalize drugs so people will quit dying! /sarc”
People are dying from drugs while they’re illegal - not really a feather in the cap of the War on Drugs. And what kills some drug users is contaminants ... which are a result of their illegality just as sure as tainted ‘bathtub gin’ was a result of alcohol’s one-time illegality.
“We now know that overdoses from prescription opioids are a driving factor in the 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. Since 1999, the amount of prescription opioids sold in the U.S. nearly quadrupled, yet there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain that Americans report. Deaths from prescription opioids—drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone—have more than quadrupled since 1999.” - https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/
You’re telling me that pharmaceutical companies don’t push doctors to prescribe pain meds? That the doctors don’t get incentives and payments to do so?
Really?
The point that your rabid detractors on this thread completely miss is that the mere drug use is just ONE aspect of the type of life that people who willfully become addicted are prone to. Almost inevitably, the people who become addicts already live vice-ridden lives, probably DEALING the drugs they become addicted to in many cases. It is inevitable with such people with serious character flaws, usually yielded to over long periods of time.
In what atmosphere, in what circumstance does one try a recreational drug for the first time? And I AM laying the most of the blame on recreational use of drugs, not prescription drugs, which are strictly monitored, and for which detection of abuse is much more likely. It’s people who indulge in a party culture who are dying, not back-pain sufferers.
What's going on here that opioid deaths are suddenly in the news. The real reason is likely far removed from either opioids or deaths.
My point, which you clearly missed, is that the public attitude toward recreation drugs has become greatly relaxed over the past decade, with many states legalizing at least marijuana to some degree. And yet, we still see a sharp increase in drug-related health issues like additions and overdoses.
Kind of smashes the contention that marijuana isn’t a gateway drug, if you ask me.
“the public attitude toward recreation drugs has become greatly relaxed over the past decade, with many states legalizing at least marijuana to some degree. And yet, we still see a sharp increase in drug-related health issues like additions and overdoses.
“Kind of smashes the contention that marijuana isn’t a gateway drug, if you ask me.”
The scientists who study this issue cite other causes. And one doesn’t have to be a scientist to know that correlation is not causation; opioid deaths have risen in tandem with iPhone 6 sales, too.
Apples and bowling balls.
As sound an argument as yours - more’s the pity for you.
Alright, here’s another sound argument.
If resistance to recreational drug use is steadily waning in public opinion, how much more so with the penchant to use prescription drugs?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3197446/posts: States with Legal Marijuana See 25 Percent Fewer Prescription Painkiller Deaths
"Although a casual relationship hasn’t been proven..."
It's far to early to jump to any conclusion in this regard.
“Don’t forget this fact, you can’t take it back cocaine”-Eric Clapton
My point was not that it's proven that legal pot causes fewer opioid deaths, but simply that the raw numbers weigh against your claim that legal pot causes MORE opioid deaths.
“Don’t forget this fact, you can’t take it back cocaine” - J.J. Cale
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