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It doesn’t stop OD, but it reduces OD because it eliminates one type of very common OD: people taking seemingly safe quantities of drugs that have been laced wi
by ses1984 3y ago
It doesn’t stop OD, but it reduces OD because it eliminates one type of very common OD: people taking seemingly safe quantities of drugs that have been laced with fentanyl.
- Loughla 3y agoIs that common? I'm not trying to deflect, but do you have statistics for that? Because I've never seen stats to back that up, other than that illegal synthetic opioids are the leading cause of OD. Those aren't necessarily the same thing, and I would like to know more about the actual reason behind OD's.
- ses1984 3y agoStatistics are fuzzy on this, because you can’t always positively determine intent, to separate accidental overdose from suicide. The number of overdose deaths are spiking, driven by fentanyl. That is 100% fact based. Now you have to make a qualitative judgement: I think most ODs are accidental when this is studied. Did a whole shitload of drug users just become unusually suicidal? I would say it’s safer to assume “no” unless you see evidence to the contrary. http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/sapc/MDU/SpecialReport/FentanylOverdosesInLosAngelesCounty.pdf http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/sapc/MDU/SpecialReport/Fent... Look at figure 2 here: https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...