More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them, US Study Finds

MSN ^ | 2/15 | Mike Stobbe

[nickcarraway]

Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published Thursday the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them.

CDC officials decided to study the topic after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common than injecting it. Potent, illicit versions of the painkiller are involved in more U.S. overdose deaths than any other drug.

[Libloather]

Smoking fentanyl is bad? Learn something new every day.

[cherry]

I wouldn't know what to do with illegal drugs.....thank God.....I have no clue what they look like, smell like, taste like or how people use them although I have cared for people especially women who inject themselves in their groin areas and that area is very difficult to treat....sometimes they need wound vacs because they've managed to cause a massive infection.....

and I've seen krockadile abscesses....

what a world.....

[nickcarraway]

Are you a nurse?

[nickcarraway]

Are you a nurse?

[nickcarraway]

You mean the drug Krokadil? I haven’t heard that it was in the U.S. much?

[WinMod70]

“women who inject themselves in their groin areas”

Sounds like the CDC considers this safer than smoking the product, although I didn’t see mention of smoking in that specific area.

[Fireone]

After injecting drugs, 100% of the people will die.
Are they insinuating more than 100% will die after smoking?
I’m just a bit confused. (100% of people who don’t use drugs will die, also)

[AlanSC]

ODs more likely to result from smoking vs injection method of administration. I would have thought it would be the other way but guess not.

[circlecity]

That’s not what the study says. The study basically says a lot more people are smoking the drug than injecting it.

[sten]

i’m not exactly broken up over druggies dying while doing drugs.

[dfwgator]

At least they died doing what they loved.

[sten]

i can’t shrug loud enough

[Blue Collar Christian]

I believe more people administer themselves illicit drugs by smoking rather than intravenously.

[5th MEB]

And my tax dollars don’t have to pay for life saving treatment or rehab!