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Why are more Americans than ever dying from drug overdoses?
theguardian.com ^ | 11/29/2018 | Niko Kommenda, Erin Durkin and Lydia Smears

Posted on 12/01/2018 6:48:50 AM PST by rktman

The growing drugs crisis sweeping across the US is deadlier than gun violence, car crashes or Aids, none of which have killed as many Americans in a single year as overdoses did in 2017.

Newly confirmed figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show the increasing scale of the crisis.

The drugs epidemic is not confined to a small number of states nor to lower-income areas, but instead has spread across the whole country. While there are concentrations around the midwest, and regional differences in the type of substance, overdose deaths are happening everywhere.

The US medical sector ranks second in the world for opioid use

Opioid consumption in the medical retail sector per year and per capita, in morphine equivalents

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: odd; wod; worsethanguns
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To: Blue House Sue

No. Read a story last week about a college kid who took one pill. One b and died. Was enough fake heroin in one pill to kill three adult males.

Bad choice? Yes.

One worthy of immediate death? No.

The right people are dying. White people. So the government does t care as it is run by leftists. White genocide.


61 posted on 12/01/2018 10:39:53 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: discostu

That’s certainly not the case in the Midwest where I live. The vast majority of overdoses are from Mexican sourced heroin often laced with Chinese fentanyl.


62 posted on 12/01/2018 10:41:00 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

The only reason is that the deceased chose poorly.


63 posted on 12/01/2018 10:47:17 AM PST by GingisK
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To: elcid1970

The Brit I worked with for years was all hopped up on anti-gun sentiment until his house was invaded with him and his wife present in the house. Once he saw that the police were completely disinterested in the matter, he became an avid supporter of the Second Amendment. He now sleeps with his Springfield .40cal on top of the night stand and adores his trips to the range.


64 posted on 12/01/2018 10:55:57 AM PST by GingisK
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To: rktman

They have made to so hard for people who need strong pain meds to get them legally they go on the streets and buy them illegally.


65 posted on 12/01/2018 11:10:38 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: rktman

When you give them clean needles, safe shoot up sites with a Narcan Monitor they will use more frequently. Crime will go up as they won’t work to support their habit. They die earlier. Develop diseases more from unprotected sex.

While INTRACTABLE PAIN PATIENTS NO LONGER HAVE LEGAL MONITORED PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDS.


66 posted on 12/01/2018 11:25:01 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: GailA

Isn’t it awesome? Also, I read someplace that ‘narcanon’ has ties to scientology or something. Tax dollars? Don’t do either so......


67 posted on 12/01/2018 11:28:09 AM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: rktman

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/11/29/rising-overdose-deaths-show-cdc-guideline-not-working?fbclid=IwAR1-m0IjGLZbDigYnTHfjSEk0WsvTuQGnSFSCGtflhXestrZRUvGsztRWDE


68 posted on 12/01/2018 11:28:10 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: rktman

Because there’s plenty of weak-minded people out there who would rather take drugs, instead of seeking the strength of the Lord.


69 posted on 12/01/2018 11:28:56 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: blueunicorn6
"Why does an extremely liberal British newspaper care about drug deaths in the US?"

They should be more concerned about the number of people who die from malpractice, or deliberate malfeasance in the UK healthcare system:

Grandfather, 68, died three weeks after hospital medics flushed his lungs out with DETERGENT rather than saline after bottles were mislabelled

Wouldn't surprise me if this was done deliberately based on their guidelines on who deserves to live, and who doesn't.

70 posted on 12/01/2018 11:33:35 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Blue House Sue

As you said, legal mj states are doing better overall than prohibition states with regard to ODs. Oregon actually had a lower death rate in 2016 vs 2010.

71 posted on 12/01/2018 11:38:45 AM PST by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Ken H

Source for table posted in #71 =>

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/images/data/2010_2016DrugOverdose-Deaths-Graphic.JPG


72 posted on 12/01/2018 11:41:42 AM PST by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: TigerClaws

It’s not a genocide, it’s a suicide.

Junkies choose to be victims.

Dumb choices by dumb people.


73 posted on 12/01/2018 1:42:37 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Vaquero

Depending on the concentration, just touching fentanyl can send you to the emergency room. The street stuff is made In China and shipped by terrorists in some cases.


74 posted on 12/01/2018 1:43:32 PM PST by Crucial
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To: blueunicorn6

America is fewer than Britain. So any problems we have will be hyped as the dangers of liberty and personal choice.


75 posted on 12/01/2018 1:46:23 PM PST by Crucial
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To: servantboy777

Very sad. I am 75 and suffer choronic pain. Pain patches often cure the pain in one area, but pain pops out somewhere else on my body. I have had spinal fusions, hip and knee replacements, cancer with lymphedema, it never ends, I have gotten off these medications several times, but hace always had a new problem. At my age, just let me alone. I never take more than I am supposed to.


76 posted on 12/01/2018 2:00:01 PM PST by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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To: rktman

One way to kill western civilization is to kill the youth of the nation


77 posted on 12/01/2018 2:26:38 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: TigerClaws

It was a bad choice because one CAN die from one pill of something you do not know about.
Best way to avoid death? Do not take it.


78 posted on 12/01/2018 2:39:05 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: rktman

KOLODNY Who sits on the PROP committee owns MANY Suboxone REHAB centers.

Forget every LIE about the Opioid Crisis you’ve read, it’s all a LIE. The CDC mixed JUNKIE OD’s with accidental for a larger Fake number, then LIED about the number of Script drugs.

The issue has always been Street Illicit drugs and how to get the Feds US to pay the States for the Narcan, Rehab. As long as you ENABLE Street Junkies to use with needle exchanges, safe shoot up rooms, with a Narcan Monitor it’s a losing battle. All the Numbers sited are FAKE.

Sob stories Kids are living with grandparents now...every parent in prison for what ever crime they committed also has their kids living with relatives or foster care.


79 posted on 12/02/2018 6:50:57 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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