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The US Overdose Epidemic - Big Deal Or Meh?
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:09 pm
Think about NOLA shooting deaths and it's outrage for a second. Now think about this:
Montgomery County, OH - On Pace For 800 OD's In 2017
That's 4 times the amount of 9/11 deaths. In one state and by one serious medical, social and mental health epidemic.
The cause experts say? Addiction to Rx pain kills like Oxycontin whose recipe was changed to combat it. Now, cheap heroin has to take the place of Rx meds and this is the result.
Why the frick isn't more being done to fight drug manufacturers and the medical profession is stopping this? We can fight the cartels, sure, but they're simply profiteering off of what domestic drug dealers manufacture.
Montgomery County, OH - On Pace For 800 OD's In 2017
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In recent years, the synthetic opioid fentanyl been flooding Dayton and other American cities, trafficked by Mexican cartels who have turned the extremely potent drug into a money-maker. In Ohio, it has sent the death toll surging.
According to data from the Montgomery County coroner, 365 people died of drug overdoses from January through and May of this year; 371 people died of such causes in all of last year.
Coroner Kent Harshbarger estimates that 60 percent to 70 percent of the bodies he sees are those of overdose victims and that by the end of the year, he'll have processed 2,000.
Because his staff covers one-fifth of Ohio, he estimates that the state will see 10,000 overdoses by the end of 2017 — more than were recorded in the entire United States in 1990.
That's 4 times the amount of 9/11 deaths. In one state and by one serious medical, social and mental health epidemic.
The cause experts say? Addiction to Rx pain kills like Oxycontin whose recipe was changed to combat it. Now, cheap heroin has to take the place of Rx meds and this is the result.
Why the frick isn't more being done to fight drug manufacturers and the medical profession is stopping this? We can fight the cartels, sure, but they're simply profiteering off of what domestic drug dealers manufacture.
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Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:09 pm to Sao
Huge deal
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:11 pm to Sao
Natural selection.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:11 pm to Sao
quote:
The US Overdose Epidemic - Big Deal Or Meh
Pretty fricking big deal.
Thanks Doctors and Big Pharma!
Make sure weed is illegal while you get insurance and tax money to subsidize and fund your lethal opioid addiction epidemic!
And thank you as well DC politicians who would rather accept money from Big Pharma than try to stop the massive death spiral our youth has fallen into.
This post was edited on 6/19/17 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:11 pm to Sao
Big deal and sickening tbh.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:12 pm to Sao
Overdosing is trashy...
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:12 pm to Sao
Legalize it all and let the godless evolution kill em off. Maybe after all the leaches are gone I'll get a bigger EBT balance and more coverage from Medicaid.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:13 pm to Breesus
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Make sure weed is legal while you get insurance and tax money to subsidize and fund your lethal opioid addiction epidemic!
It's insane that the folks in govt are more concerned with keeping weed illegal than they are with dealing with a self-induced opium epidemic.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:13 pm to Costanza
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Natural selection.
There's always at least one in these types of threads. Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:13 pm to Breesus
I'm no big pharma advocate but big pharma isn't hiding fentanyl inside Xanax, heroin, etc.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:14 pm to Sao
quote:
Think about NOLA shooting deaths and it's outrage for a second. Now think about this:
Big difference being that ODs are self inflicted. No one who dies from them is truly innocent.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:15 pm to Sao
It's very bad.
A few friends work with rehab centers and it's by far the worst they have ever seen.
A few friends work with rehab centers and it's by far the worst they have ever seen.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:16 pm to Sao
It's really sad actually. I'm 41 and it doesn't seem like this was near as common in the 80s and 90s. 4 or 5 people that I went to HS with have died from overdoses in the past 6-8 years.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:17 pm to Sao
We need to legalize all of the drugs that are abused.
The trick is once you legalize, what do you do with the addicts?
I don't want to sound like some conservative, but one solution is not to do illegal drugs.
The trick is once you legalize, what do you do with the addicts?
I don't want to sound like some conservative, but one solution is not to do illegal drugs.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:17 pm to The Mick
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I'm no big pharma advocate but big pharma isn't hiding fentanyl inside Xanax, heroin, etc.
True, but the current way we are attacking the problem is clearly ineffective. We need to change how we approach it.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:18 pm to Sao
surplus human population will only intensify in the years to come. sucks for the families, but junkies killing themselves is no sweat off my back.
sidenote: we should legalize, tax, and educate/rehabilitate
sidenote: we should legalize, tax, and educate/rehabilitate
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:18 pm to chasmania
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I don't want to sound like some conservative, but one solution is not to do illegal drugs.
Let's take the liberal approach and gas them all.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:18 pm to Sao
Money.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:19 pm to Sao
IMO the issue partially stems from doctors overprescribing prescription narcotics as a "catch all" form of treating patients with pain problems. Back in the day (hell, even still) the manufacturer of Oxycontin had huge influence in the pharmaceutical industry and doctors were encouraged to keep writing prescriptions for it.
Back home, when the DEA started cracking down on doctors overprescribing narcotic painkillers, a lot of doctors started fearing that their medical licenses would be suspended so they cut many of their patients off completely instead of weaning them off slowly. This forced people to start turning to heroin to get their fix because it was cheaper and easier to get. I think painkiller addiction is one of the greatest threats to our healthcare system and society today.
Back home, when the DEA started cracking down on doctors overprescribing narcotic painkillers, a lot of doctors started fearing that their medical licenses would be suspended so they cut many of their patients off completely instead of weaning them off slowly. This forced people to start turning to heroin to get their fix because it was cheaper and easier to get. I think painkiller addiction is one of the greatest threats to our healthcare system and society today.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:20 pm to Sao
I couldn't care less about junkies OD'ing.
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