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Something to consider during this panic
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:15 am
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:15 am
This chart represents opiate overdose death rates over time in the US
We are now losing over 40k Americans every year due to opiate overdose. Where is the panic over the real killer? COVID will come and go but those death numbers aren't going to change significantly.
Many people have lost loved ones to this terrible epidemic which goes pretty much ignored by our government except for pushing medication assisted treatment.
We are now losing over 40k Americans every year due to opiate overdose. Where is the panic over the real killer? COVID will come and go but those death numbers aren't going to change significantly.
Many people have lost loved ones to this terrible epidemic which goes pretty much ignored by our government except for pushing medication assisted treatment.
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Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:16 am to Beessnax
if i die from an opioid overdose from someone sneezing near me, I tell you what, let's freak out
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:16 am to Beessnax
Doesn't make for a good sound bite to get dem clicks yo.
And for the media, that's really all it's about.
And for the media, that's really all it's about.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:16 am to Beessnax
Stupid comparison
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:16 am to Beessnax
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Where is the panic over the real killer? COVID will come and go but those death numbers aren't going to change significantly.
Virtually everyone on drugs voluntarily does them. No one gets C19 on purpose. You also can’t spread drug usage via contact or through the air.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:18 am to Beessnax
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We are now losing over 40k Americans every year due to opiate overdose. Where is the panic over the real killer? COVID will come and go but those death numbers aren't going to change significantly
I don't think you understand how this wo...ahhhhh eff it, carry on.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:19 am to Pilot Tiger
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if I die from an opioid overdose from someone sneezing near me, I tell you what, let's freak out
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:19 am to Beessnax
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Where is the panic over the real killer?
It was all that was talked about until this shite broke out.
Sweeping changes in opiate use and management were made. It only brought us a heroin boom, fentanyl abuse, chinese fentanyl, and carfentanyl (sp?).
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:22 am to Beessnax
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Where is the panic over the real killer?
Didn’t realize being a pill head is contagious.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:25 am to Beessnax
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Where is the panic over the real killer?
Where have you been getting your news that you have not seen reports on the opioid crisis? People have been panicked for years. Purdue is bankrupt and other companies are paying massive settlements. It’s not contagious, so we cannot quarantine then hold world from drug addiction.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:26 am to Beessnax
Yes, you see my friend you miss the whole point about drug overdoses not being contagious.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:29 am to Pilot Tiger
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i die from an opioid overdose from someone sneezing near me, I tell you what, let's freak out
Would you freak out when an opiate impaired driver injured someone you love?
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:38 am to Beessnax
What are you talking about? Trump announced $1.8 billion in funding to combat the Opioid crisis just last year.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:41 am to Beessnax
I think coronovirus totally overblown.
But, to equate to voluntary drug use/misuse isn't reasonable at all.
I feel bad for drug addicts and their families.
But, they do it to themselves.
It's not an infectious disease.
Or any sort of disease for that matter.
But, to equate to voluntary drug use/misuse isn't reasonable at all.
I feel bad for drug addicts and their families.
But, they do it to themselves.
It's not an infectious disease.
Or any sort of disease for that matter.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:43 am to LSU alum wannabe
When hydrocodone was changed from a C-III to a schedule C-II,the o.d. rate skyrocketed because of heroin, fentanyl, etc.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:43 am to Bench McElroy
OP is f’n stupid
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:46 am to Privateer 2007
We had the draft during the Vietnam era. It is an all volunteer military now. Think of Corona as the draft, and drug addiction as volunteer.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:53 am to Beessnax
Well if an addict touches my shopping cart at the grocery store and I touch it, rub my face and two weeks later hug my elderly cancer patient Mom who then dies 2 weeks later from opioid abuse, (a total of nearly 4 weeks later from my shopping trip), then hell yeah I’m worried.
Posted on 3/24/20 at 7:59 am to Beessnax
Probably should shut down Hollywood since lots of their actors die from it
Posted on 3/24/20 at 8:45 am to CaptainsWafer
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No one gets C19 on purpose.
Not disagreeing with your overall point but you could make the case that spring breaker or any of the folks at that church in/near (can't recall exactly where) essentially got it on purpose or at least were asking for it.
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