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Overdose deaths exceed murders in NOLA for the first time in history

Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:08 pm
Posted by LSUTANGERINE
Baton Rouge LA
Member since Sep 2006
36113 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:08 pm
By far too.
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The number of accidental drug-related deaths in New Orleans in 2016 exceeded the number of murders for perhaps the first time in the city's history, according to the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office.

Drug-related deaths totaled 211 last year, more than double the 92 drug-related deaths reported in 2015 and eclipsing the 2016 murder tally of 175. Opioids were discovered in 166 of the fatal overdoses in 2016, or 78 percent, more than twice the 2015 total of 81.

The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl was found in 29 percent of the 166 people who died with opioids in their system, Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Rouse said in a news release. The 48 people who died after using fentanyl represents a three-fold increase from the 13 who died after ingesting the drug in 2015.

In the United States too.
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Similar trends are underway across the country. In December, the CDC announced that, for the first time in U.S. history, more people died from heroin-related causes than from gun homicides in 2015. As recently as 2007, the Washington Post pointed out, gun deaths outweighed heroin deaths by more than 5 to 1.

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This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 9:10 pm
Posted by rmnldr
Member since Oct 2013
38263 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:09 pm to
Ban drug abuse.

We need common sense drug control.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57576 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:09 pm to
I'm an idiot
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 9:12 pm
Posted by tigerbutt
Deep South
Member since Jun 2006
24666 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:10 pm to
Trumps fault amirite?
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164646 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:10 pm to
Good
Posted by Winston Cup
Dallas Cowboys Fan
Member since May 2016
65532 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:10 pm to
Oh man that sucks. I don't know how to fix either problem. It just sucks
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
135222 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:11 pm to
Won't change until we start treating it as a medical condition.
Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
16023 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:11 pm to
A good herd-thinnin' is needed sometimes.
Posted by LesMiles BFF
Lafayette
Member since May 2014
5101 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:11 pm to
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The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl was found in 29 percent of the 166 people who died with opioids in their system, Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Rouse said in a news release


You hear a lot of BS from the people still on the streets but this turned out to be true. Where are these low life "heroin" dealers getting fentanyl?
Posted by Capt ST
Hotel California
Member since Aug 2011
12930 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:11 pm to
NB4 drug cultcha


Truly sad, it's bad everywhere, nola by no means has a monopoly on it.
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36458 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:12 pm to
Dealers are cutting the heroin with fentanyl. Combining these two substances is a recipe for an overdose. They just don't care.
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
67023 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:14 pm to
We need massive drug law reform.

But we have to fight MADD, big pharma, law enforcement, etc....
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
35315 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:14 pm to
Darwin, I praise thee
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
146214 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:19 pm to
Did you leave this part out on purpose??


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The percentage of African-Americans who died from drugs rose substantially, however, from 28 percent in 2015 to 45 percent in 2016.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
73193 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:21 pm to
Heroin is taking out huge swaths of people in this country now days.
Posted by Hammertime
Will trade dowsing rod for titties
Member since Jan 2012
43030 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:28 pm to
MADD told me drinking and driving is more important
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
32145 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:28 pm to
The only good thing about this is that maybe organ wait list shortens. We have a major crisis going on right now and it is in every community.
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 9:30 pm
Posted by dagrippa
Saigon
Member since Nov 2004
11315 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:47 pm to
You can thank the pill mills and big pharma for helping to revive the heroin craze
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 9:49 pm
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
127276 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:49 pm to
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Overdose deaths exceed murders in NOLA for the first time in history
Darwinism....
Posted by habanos
Alabama
Member since Feb 2014
1937 posts
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:52 pm to
What has not been noted is that once you have had heroin cut with fentanyl you need both to satisfy the monkey on your back from then on out.

The problem is sometimes you get a much more powerful version of fent.that is used on circus animals and it kills off the customers.
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