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US drug overdose deaths hit record high in 2022
- aeternum 3y agoIt's sadly ironic that the West (mainly Britain and America) forced Opium on the Chinese for nearly a century, then within a matter of mere decades that knowledge was lost to history, and we brought that very plight to our own countries in slightly more synthetic forms. China calls it the century of humiliation, what should we call it?
- birdyrooster 3y agoWar on drugs
- extragood 3y agoOne guess where the fentanyl is manufactured
- blackwateragent 3y agoMexico?
- droopyEyelids 3y agoIts manufactured in mexico or central America but the precursors are believed to come from the world’s chemical industry capitals in china and india. However, after fentanyl became a thing and china was implicated, they were quicker than the us to ban the precursors than the usa
- blackwateragent 3y agoTo add onto your response, you have examples like this: Heroin’s Hidden Ingredient, Courtesy of a U.S. Company [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_DXMRQDOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_DXMRQDOw
- OO000oo 3y agoFreedom
- rconti 3y agoCentury of profit
- gmerc 3y agoWe blame the addicts.
- optimalsolver 3y agoThe Era Of Good Feelings.
- tayo42 3y agoJust make pure and consistent heroine available cheap and they'll stop dying. People just need support through their low point and patience to make it through the other side. Cynicaly, that requires empathy and helping other people so we'll just increase enforcement and crack down harshly and keep failing lol
- D_Alex 3y agoOr you could take the Singapore approach and execute all drug traffickers. Whether this is moral is arguable, but it certainly has been effective - drug deaths per capita in Singapore are about 100 times lower than in the US. And if you include the executed drug traffickers in the count, the total is still 80 times lower.
- pstuart 3y agoSo you believe we should kill all the brewers, bartenders, liquor store clerks etc? Alcohol has no medically redeeming values and is the cause of a lot of death and suffering. This will keep us safe, right?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoAlcohol isn’t currently causing a problem on the scale of the problems that certain other drugs are causing. I think that is fairly obvious?
- Prickle 3y agoLast I checked, annually , more people die from tobacco use and alcohol poisoning than illicit drug use. ~480,000 deaths annually from tobacco ~140,000 deaths annually from alcohol ~109,680 deaths in 2022 from drug overdose *Data is exclusively taken from the USA
- extragood 3y agoAlcohol deaths worldwide overshadow drug deaths by a large margin. Opiods are the biggest share at 70% WHO has 3 million deaths linked to alcohol [1] vs .5 million for narcotics. [1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/alcohol https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/alcohol [2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/opioid-overdose https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/opioid-over...
- orionblastar 3y agoCould it be because of Fentanyl? Being mixed in with other drugs by gangs looking to kill people?
- silisili 3y agoI think it's interesting that people fight over legalization, safer methods, alternatives, etc. Why is nobody really asking why our society is so broken that everyone is looking for an escape, even now knowing they may die, and how we even begin to address that?
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI speak of looking for the root causes of addiction and trying to solve those things. But, I mean, I'm a big fat nobody. (Shrug)
- silisili 3y agoOf course you're not. I was just speaking from quickly browsing this thread at time of writing. It seems abundantly clear to me(and probably you) that something is deeply wrong with our society. I've known people who made good money and in large houses just OD and die out of (seemingly) nowhere. Why is everyone so unhappy? Or is it that we've always been, and now we just have the means to act on it?
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI don't personally think drug use is solely about killing emotional pain.
- silisili 3y agoCan you point me to your thoughts? I'm not an expert, or a drug user. But I -feel- like fentanyl has been in the news so much that users have to know the risks, and yet keep on keeping on. So any thoughts as to the why are welcomed.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI don't post links to my health site on HN, but it can be found and you can search HN for pertinent comments by me.