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Fentanyl Overdose Becomes Leading Cause of Death for Adults Age 18 to 45
WRAL ^ | March 23, 2022 | Laura Leslie

Posted on 04/08/2022 3:01:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Fentanyl overdose is now the leading cause of death for US adults ages 18 to 45, according to numbers from the CDC.

Official overdose numbers for 2020 were 40% higher than the previous year. Fentanyl was to blame for 73% of those overdoses. In 2021, preliminary data indicates fentanyl was involved in 77% of overdose deaths.

That 77% is a dramatic increase from the 31% of fentanyl-involved overdose deaths in 2016. The percentage has increased every year since, up to 53% in 2017, 56% in 2018 and 61% in 2019.

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To: Semper Vigilantis

If all the covid jabbed miscarriages true, the jabbed aren’t going to be able to have children, so why worry?


41 posted on 04/08/2022 5:31:31 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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To: vivenne

Supposedly, the powder is so potent, police have died just by touching the stuff without gloves.

It’s getting mixed into cocaine for sure.


42 posted on 04/08/2022 5:34:25 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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To: steve86

If Duterte had been consistent, then I think that he would have succeeded. It will take drastic action to end drug addiction and drug sales. Nothing we are currently doing will work.


43 posted on 04/08/2022 5:44:55 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: Levy78

“there’s no way you can believe in God and think like that...”

Are you saying that God doesn’t kill bad people??? I remember some temple and a contest, and the Israelites smiting a bunch of bad people. In the Book of Hezekiah IIRC.


44 posted on 04/08/2022 5:47:00 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: nickcarraway

What’s stupid is Fent doesn’t give you that heroine high. It’s powerful but not much on the opiate high these idiots are chasing. Does it bind in the receptors nice and tight - yes but cutting it with heroine really doesn’t work great hence the ODs. They chase the high not the opiate dose. It’s just dumb. The junkies want the opiate high and the drug pushers give the a strong opiate with little of the high. It’s like asking for idiocy. We are talking druggies so duh.


45 posted on 04/08/2022 5:50:20 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: Penelope Dreadful

You think every person who has a drug problem is a bad person? Sounds like you need to spend more time in the New Testament.


46 posted on 04/08/2022 5:58:33 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: Callnote

You are correct. The legal drug addicts sit back in their arm chairs feeling superior. They have created a generation of druggies for stupid reasons.

Can’t handle sitting still in class all day - drug
Menstrual cramps - drug
Feeling depressed in government run pedophile schools - drug and drop your pants
On and on and on. I have coached my kids sports teams when they were young 5-16. I only saw one kid that actually benefited from the ADHD drugs. Saw about 10 that turned into walking zombies. Those 10 or so were all getting extra $ for government programs their parents were sucking off to get fatter or lazier.

So those are the ones chasing the Fent dragon tail. They catch it because that is what Fent does.


47 posted on 04/08/2022 5:59:06 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: RatRipper; All

Exactly! Libs can’t connect the dots between open borders, drug cartels, drugs, human trafficking, murder and rape.


48 posted on 04/08/2022 6:11:22 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Dogbert41

Trump and the Republicans started building the wall, the people put the Democrats back in and the tide changed.

No Republican of any kind would be getting rid of Title 42, nor did the things to the border patrol that Biden is doing.

This is Camp of the Saints, civil war kind of stuff.


49 posted on 04/08/2022 6:17:04 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: vivenne

They are cutting heroin and cocaine and meth with it. Have even heard of it being in some pot.
With heroin, it gives them a super high. Heroin addicts are always looking for that 1st high feeling. Fetanyl helps that. Problem is that when it is mixed, it is unknown how much is in each dose. Then the users hear about someone OD’ing and look for that source cuz it means it is “good”.
Addicts are also trying to avoid getting “sick”.

As an aside, a great many of the deadly overdoses are people who have tried to quit (rehab can cost $30K a month so most have to try cold turkey or some sort of out patient). So, if an addict hasn’t used for awhile and falls off the wagon, their “usual” dose can kill them because their tolerance is not as high.
We lost a wonderful, damaged young woman last year. She had quit and was trying to get her life together. I am guessing one of her so-called friends (people know who but no proof) suggested they party. She did it and her father found her the next morning.
People love to think of addicts as losers and so on. It is easier to think that than to accept that many are not. They have made extremely bad choices and they are ones that are painful to rectify. But for the Grace of God go you or I or any of our loved ones. I wish there were more available resources for those who want out of that cycle.
That last bit was not directed at vivenne but in general.


50 posted on 04/08/2022 6:59:50 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (9-11-01 Never Forget)
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To: Lurker

I have taken hydrocodone plenty of times after surgeries. I always keep a couple extra in case I get an unbearable headache. I honestly do not like the feeling so it is hard for me to understand why people want to feel like that. Then again, I can’t stand pot so....Maybe I am lucky!


51 posted on 04/08/2022 7:06:47 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (9-11-01 Never Forget)
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To: C19fan

I watch that show every week. Scary.


52 posted on 04/08/2022 7:11:39 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (9-11-01 Never Forget)
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To: Penelope Dreadful

You must be pro abortion as well. At least for those in poverty who’s children are more likely to grow into a life of crime.


53 posted on 04/08/2022 7:35:26 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t do anything about it and the problem will solve itself sooner rather than later as the junkies remove themselves from the gene pool.


54 posted on 04/08/2022 8:57:56 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Mariner

My life long childhood friend killed himself with fentanyl at the end of January. He was 64.

He’d last told me he was worried that he wouldn’t have enough to retire on.

I didn’t know he was going to do this.


55 posted on 04/08/2022 11:32:39 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: Levy78

Yes, I think every person with a drug problem is a bad person. They are selfish to the max, and they ruin the lives of everyone around them. They give revenue to the drug industry. I also think every person who buys kiddie porn is a bad person .


56 posted on 04/09/2022 11:24:43 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: wgmalabama

Lumping menstrual cramps with undisciplined and hyperactive kids is crazy. I guess you’ve never passed out, or puked your guts out, with cramps. Taking something to alleviate that does not make someone an addict.


57 posted on 04/09/2022 11:30:19 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: americas.best.days...

Huh??? I think there is a big difference between bad people and innocent people.


58 posted on 04/09/2022 11:32:14 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: Penelope Dreadful

Certainly your right to hold that opinion. I believe people who wish death on millions are horrible people, up there with Hitler, Islamic terrorists, pedophiles, etc.


59 posted on 04/09/2022 11:40:36 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: Levy78

Sooo, if you think Hitler was bad, would you be upset if millions of his soldiers offed themselves??? Or would you be like me?


60 posted on 04/09/2022 11:51:47 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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