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According to the CDC- Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdos
by jfptech 8y ago
According to the CDC-
Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States
From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose
Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid
In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999
On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
Government spends billions waging war on marijuana while Purdue Pharma, Pill Mills, and The FDA kill the rest of us with Oxycontin
- _Schizotypy 8y agoThose numbers don't include alcohol or tobacco deaths, which are staggering in comparison
- bregma 8y agoThe LD50 for cannabinoids is approximately your own weight. At least in the monkeys and rats studied, because there has never been a documented human overdose and proper studies are both unethical and (in the US) illegal.
- failrate 8y agoBasically, a marijuana dry flower overdose would come after A) your lungs were ruined by the enormous quantities of smoke inhaled after a short period or B) you were crushed or smothered under the plant material.