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>2021 rolls around and the 2020 overdose death statistics were calculated, and there were about a dozen more overdose deaths in 2020 than in 2019 Do you have a

>2021 rolls around and the 2020 overdose death statistics were calculated, and there were about a dozen more overdose deaths in 2020 than in 2019 Do you have a citation for this? All statistics I have seen are the exact opposite, showing wildly worse OD stats for 2020 than 2019 [0] Now some synthetic opioid OD stats could be affected by availability and popularity having little to do with COVID, so lets look at a more historically available drug... "Overdose deaths involving cocaine also increased by 26.5 percent" [0]. How do you explain that one? And it's not that clubs and raves are finding some new popularity, they've been shut down absent a recent and limited subset of Florida towns. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-death...

monocasa 6y ago
> And it's not that clubs and raves are finding some new popularity There's been a resurgence in underground raves.
heavyset_go 6y ago
Check your citation, it refers to overdose deaths nationwide between the period of June 2019 until May 2020. The vast majority of those deaths occurred before there were lock downs in the end of March and beginning of April 2020. Your stats include about a month or two of lock downs at most. My stats refer to the period between January 2020 and the end of December 2020 in a single state. I'm not about to dox myself, but we can use another state's data to illustrate the same point. In NJ, there were 3,021 overdose deaths in 2019, and in 2020, there were 3,046 overdoses, an increase of only 25 deaths[1], or 0.83%. > "Overdose deaths involving cocaine also increased by 26.5 percent" [0]. How do you explain that one? Cocaine and psychostimulants are becoming increasingly popular year-over-year. For example, the CDC reports that psychostimulant overdose deaths increased by 37% in 2017[2], and drug overdose deaths involving cocaine increased by more than 34%. The CDC reports that from 2009 to 2018, cocaine overdose deaths nearly tripled[3], and between 2014 and 2018, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine with opioids increased at a faster pace than the rate of cocaine deaths without opioids. If you look at the compiled data[3], between 2015 and 2018, cocaine overdose deaths skyrocketed. Part of the trend might be related to increasingly adulterated cocaine[4] with fentanyl and designer stimulants over the past few years. [1] https://whyy.org/articles/n-j-saw-a-slight-uptick-in-drug-overdose-deaths-in-2020/ https://whyy.org/articles/n-j-saw-a-slight-uptick-in-drug-ov... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/otherdrugs.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/otherdrugs.html [3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db384.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db384.htm [4] https://khn.org/news/not-yesterdays-cocaine-death-toll-rising-from-tainted-drug/ https://khn.org/news/not-yesterdays-cocaine-death-toll-risin...

monocasa 6y ago

> And it's not that clubs and raves are finding some new popularity There's been a resurgence in underground raves.

heavyset_go 6y ago

Check your citation, it refers to overdose deaths nationwide between the period of June 2019 until May 2020. The vast majority of those deaths occurred before there were lock downs in the end of March and beginning of April 2020. Your stats include about a month or two of lock downs at most. My stats refer to the period between January 2020 and the end of December 2020 in a single state. I'm not about to dox myself, but we can use another state's data to illustrate the same point. In NJ, there were 3,021 overdose deaths in 2019, and in 2020, there were 3,046 overdoses, an increase of only 25 deaths[1], or 0.83%. > "Overdose deaths involving cocaine also increased by 26.5 percent" [0]. How do you explain that one? Cocaine and psychostimulants are becoming increasingly popular year-over-year. For example, the CDC reports that psychostimulant overdose deaths increased by 37% in 2017[2], and drug overdose deaths involving cocaine increased by more than 34%. The CDC reports that from 2009 to 2018, cocaine overdose deaths nearly tripled[3], and between 2014 and 2018, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine with opioids increased at a faster pace than the rate of cocaine deaths without opioids. If you look at the compiled data[3], between 2015 and 2018, cocaine overdose deaths skyrocketed. Part of the trend might be related to increasingly adulterated cocaine[4] with fentanyl and designer stimulants over the past few years. [1] https://whyy.org/articles/n-j-saw-a-slight-uptick-in-drug-overdose-deaths-in-2020/ https://whyy.org/articles/n-j-saw-a-slight-uptick-in-drug-ov... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/otherdrugs.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/otherdrugs.html [3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db384.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db384.htm [4] https://khn.org/news/not-yesterdays-cocaine-death-toll-rising-from-tainted-drug/ https://khn.org/news/not-yesterdays-cocaine-death-toll-risin...