Posted on 04/24/2022 4:40:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New York City’s worst public-health crisis is growing. No, not COVID, but deadly overdoses.
OD deaths are up 78% from pre-pandemic levels, claiming 1,233 lives during the first half of 2021, a 28% spike over the same period in 2020.
The city Department of Health blames fentanyl, since the vast majority of those deaths were tied to the powerful synthetic opioid, which is often used to cut other narcotics. More than a ton of fentanyl was seized statewide in 2021 (95% of it in NYC); in 2020, the NYPD found that some 80% of all heroin it tested contained the drug.
Across the Empire State, drug’s hideous toll totals more than 14,500 deaths since 2015.
So it’s good news that the city will be dedicating funds from a massive state settlement with the pharmaceutical industry to opioid addiction and treatment centers, but it’s not enough.
Especially as long as our so-called safe injection sites stay open. Yes, users can test their drugs for fentanyl and get anti-overdose medications if necessary. But while they may save lives at the margins, they will likely cost lives overall by helping solidify the lawless culture around drug use in New York City, encouraging addiction and lowering quality of life.
Fentanyl, to be clear, is a national problem, increasingly driving US deaths for nearly a decade. In 2020, 29,000 Americans aged 15 to 34 died of drug overdoses. (That’s more than nine times as many as died from COVID in that age group in that period, by the way.) Overall, fentanyl-involved deaths are outpacing those from prescription opioids by 550%.
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Don’t you just hate it when they mix dangerous drugs in with your heroin.
Invade Mexico and to plug the drug river into the US plus push back the cartels.
NYC is a nightmare yet the tards continue to vote democrap which is like using gasoline to put out a fire. Look at this, why do the cops even bother arresting people?
https://nypost.com/2022/04/24/suspects-walk-free-after-arrests-by-nypds-new-anti-gun-teams/
Oh heavens no. Finish the wall and police the border.
When ODs hit 100% then I’ll be happy plus it’s New York which is a shxt hole anyway.
Part of the ChiCom’s war on The USA. Hang drug dealers and stop the flow into America.
I get the impression that pretty much every big city is run by Democrats, and every single one of them is beset by multiple crises.
Somehow the Democrats are able to use this to strengthen their position.
Just let the Druggies have all they want.
Their bodies are none of my business!
Lyndon Johnson was an evil genius, not a boisterous Texan. His "war on poverty" destroyed the black family structure and created a dependency class to elect Democrats in perpetuity.
Trump understood how these problems were connected. The media refused to listen.
You go in for surgery now and they won’t even give you any opiate painkillers. Suffer on ibuprofen. But they refuse to do anything about the border.
It’s Bidens problem.
Cartels own him.
Let’s legalize Marijuana...
Nobody will look for anything stronger!
Are they all really ODs...?
Trust but verify.
“a ton of fentanyl was seized [NY] statewide”
66 pounds was collected in a small town in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire sees 500 dead every year.
I think I know why I can’t get repairs done to my house.
What’s a “border”?
New Yorkers are getting what they voted for — good and hard.
When they elected Eric Adams I posted on the NY Daily news Facebook site that absolutely nothing was going to change, that they just elected a black DeBlasio, and I got a lot of heat for that. Democrats called me racist, other names, but I told them, get back to me in 6 months.
Well here we are almost 4 months in, and crime has actually gone UP under Adams. Yep, I was certainly racist.
To always vote democrat is the definition of insanity. A democrat takes office and massively screws up and these voters think “Oh come on, let’s try another democrat, they can’t ALL be bad” And they try another one and another and another and another, and they are ALL bad yet they STILL vote democrat!
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