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Other causes of death have grown. I just saw this headline, "Fentanyl deaths skyrocketed more than 1,000% over six years in the US" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/
by draw_down 8y ago
Other causes of death have grown. I just saw this headline, "Fentanyl deaths skyrocketed more than 1,000% over six years in the US" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/health/fentanyl-deaths-increase-study/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/health/fentanyl-deaths-increa...
- jandrese 8y ago6 years ago hardly anybody had heard of Fentanyl. % growth is a misleading statistic when you're starting out on the bottom of the S curve. I'm not saying it's not a problem, just that the summary is sensationalized.
- patfla 8y agoStill, opiate deaths now outnumber vehicular deaths, although vehicular death has been dropping. Opiate deaths probably skew young and one might ask: just what percent of, on average, poor impulse control young people are now killed by opiate death?