Posted on 12/22/2020 3:42:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Nineteen counties in Ohio have exceeded or equaled records for the most overdoses in a year as the nation continues to see a spike in drug overdoses during the coronavirus pandemic.
Harm Reduction Ohio, a drug policy advocacy group which says it is the largest distributor of naloxone in the state, says the biggest increases in death caused by overdoses have occurred in central and east Ohio.
There have been more than 3,700 overdose deaths in the state, a number likely to rise by the end of the year, Harm Reduction Ohio said. May saw a record-breaking 557 deaths.
The 19 counties with overdose records are: Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Fairfield, Franklin, Gallia, Licking, Mahoning, Meigs, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Pike, Ross, Seneca, Tuscarawa and Vinton Counties. Franklin County alone has already confirmed, 551 overdose deaths since the beginning of the year and is on track to be the first Ohio county to top more than 600 overdose deaths in a single year, Harm Reduction Ohio said.
“It’s also important to remember that, as bad as things are in Franklin County, its overdose death rate is only about 25% above the state average,” the organization said in a statement on its website. “In other words, the record-breaking overdose level is partly a results of the county’s large population size.”
Franklin County is home to Columbus, the state’s capital...
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For your consideration.
You mean they weren’t classified as Covid deaths?
Happening everywhere.
My PA county is running 40%-50% more than last year and will likely exceed its previous (2017) peak.
I have long had a hunch that a lot of drugs coming from south of the border are shipped up the Mississippi river and make their way to Chicago for distribution. Only because it makes no sense to ship so far out of the way north only to redistribute them south again. But because it seems so odd, perhaps that throws the LE scent off. But could very easily be making their way in from Toronto as well. Probably coming in every which way they can imagine.
There is an extremely effective way to prevent overdosing.
Don’t take people’s freedom away?
Don’t destroy their life’s savings?
Don’t eliminate in person gatherings where people with similar issues meet?
Thanks to our Dickhead Dictator RINO Gov. DeWhine and his nonsensical edicts.
And to the RINO Majority Senate President Obhof who is sitting on the votes to override DeWhine’s veto of SB 311 which limits DeWhine’s health director’s power to issue stay-at-home orders and quarantines across the state.
More along the lines of personal responsibility. Don’t shoot up heroin and don’t chug down a bunch of pills.
Chinese shipping Fentanyl and Shabu to the US in record numbers
You should run AA and NA meetings.
No one has ever thought of that.
You could walk across some water, then tell them “Say no to drugs”.
Problem solved.
“Say no to drugs”....I think I heard that somewhere before....back in the 80s....I recall some skinny little woman with big hair telling us to do that.
Even at NA meetings, they acknowledge that it is a weakness, a poor choice.
Is it time to hang that little prick De-Whine yet????
It worked great. The 80’s had zero drug issues.
>Is it time to hang that little prick De-Whine yet????<
LONG PAST TIME.
DeWhine and his condescending wife Fran remind me of Romanian Dictator Ceausescu and his equally dictatorial wife Elena.
And we know what happened to those 2 on Christmas Day about 31 years ago.
I can only dream.
>It worked great. The 80’s had zero drug issues.<
Yes, I remember the drug free 80s.
My cousin Bobby was the ONLY exception. If he hadn’t run his motorcycle into a brick wall when he was high, no one would have known about him.
What step is that? A defect of character isn’t a choice.
I believe they say they are powerless.
That doesn’t sound like a choice.
I believe they say something about a higher power restoring them to sanity.
That doesn’t sound like a person’s choice.
Way to Go, Ohio!
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