Posted on 01/31/2022 4:44:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
In one five-year period, teens and preteens in the US may have lost about 200,000 years of life to unintentional drug overdoses, according to a new study.
The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, may be one of the first to calculate lives lost to unintentional drug overdoses among young people. Researchers looked at overdose data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2015 and 2019 to calculate the total number of years of life lost for 10- to 19-year-olds who died during that time. If the data is expanded to include people up to 24 years of age, unintentional drug overdoses resulted in the loss of 1.25 million years of life.
The number of young people dying from an unintentional overdose has steadily increased in recent years, as it has for the general population, according to data from the National Institutes of Health. Earlier studies have shown that mental health issues, unstable housing and other factors may be to blame for many of these unintentional drug overdoses.
Attention: this is misinformation.
All part of the plan.
“mis” or “dis” We apparently are trying to up those numbers currently. Grrrrrrrrr
“...may have lost 200,000 years...”
Geezus H. Crimmany! What a stupid study. Why not just round it up to a million years?
More worthless mental masturbation and just plain stoopid.
And they will vote democrat for the next 200,000 years.
I disagree. There’s nothing more tragic than losing our young people to dope, almost all of it from Mexican cartels and China.
Years of life lost is important. You lose a teen and you lose 60 to 60 years of good life. You lose somebody who is 70 or 80 to COVID and you lose hardly any years (and probably not good years anyway). It is a very valid metric.
I’d love to see the comparison of years of life lost to drugs to years of life lost to COVID (and NOT WITH COVID, but OF COVID). I’d be surprised if COVID years lost is higher than drugs years lost.
Thanks, but, is it permitted by the (uni)Party to post truth ?
FTA:
“...she’s seen an increasing number of children who need help for problems with opioids and fentanyl”.
Just wait for the next study—to include the Wu-flu years.
What part of these “unintentional” ODs were with illegally supplied drugs and what were with legally prescribed drugs? Placing even more restrictions on obtaining the latter won’t do much to reduce deaths in those too foolish recognize the risks of the former.
No!
Drugs are a plaque on our country but since it generally kills poor white people it doesn’t really matter.
Just wow. A life is a life. How you choose to live it matters.
So it sounds like it's not a medical provider issue in most cases. Unless the provider should have recognized there were mental health issues.
Ping.
Yes a life is a life. But it’s far worse to be struck down when you are just embarking on life’s journey than when you have one foot in the grave.
I hate when that happens.
Well, now, why don’t you just kill off all of us useless old people?
A lot of us pushing into later years of life don’t yet have a foot in the grave.
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