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by tt433 6y ago
How?
- CamperBob2 6y agoA dozen deaths in one HS graduating class? Really? That would raise suspicions on 'Dexter.'
- tt433 6y agoYou're referencing media I don't know, I don't understand why you don't think the scope of the opioid crisis that has claimed thousands could involve the deaths of 12 people with 1 thing in common. Pill mill pharmacies are a thing, and some of those pharmacists have been charged with crimes.
- astrange 6y agoHe means a year in HS, not a single classroom. That's a few hundred people. And the way pharmacies were handing out opioids it's quite possible. Wasn't called a crisis for nothing.
- monocasa 6y agoYeah, ~1200 person class.
- CamperBob2 6y agoSo your class had a 1% death rate due to prescription opioids. Why do you suppose it was so far out of proportion to the general population? drugabuse.gov says prescription opioids accounted for around 15,000 deaths in 2017 [1], so 12 in a single high school graduating class is either a massive unexplained spike in the data, or something you made up. 1: https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...
- tt433 6y agoI'm not who you're replying to, but don't you think that given we know pill mills exist, it's likely the data is actually highly location specific? I.E., a city with one is more likely to have lots of ODs compared to the national average? Have you taken a statistic course? At this point I'm not sure what you're objecting to anymore.
- CamperBob2 6y agoA 1% death rate due to prescription opioids in a high-school age population sounds utterly unprecedented. If true, it's interesting, and genuinely disturbing. I'd like to learn more about how something like that can happen at that scale. If not true, it belongs on some other site where people don't care about what's true and not true.
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