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Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever

 
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Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever
Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York Times.

The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid addiction, now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.

Although the data is preliminary, the Times’s best estimate is that deaths rose 19 percent over the 52,404 recorded in 2015. And all evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017.



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It's not the drugs per say, it's the lowbrows in our society with no discipline or impulse control. No one forces people to abuse these drugs. It's a choice.
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Fabulous, just think of the money the system is saving.
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It's not the drugs per say, it's the lowbrows in our society with no discipline or impulse control. No one forces people to abuse these drugs. It's a choice.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74970606


idk , when youre brought up around drugs and everybody you know uses them its pretty easy to fall into it.
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It's not the drugs per say, it's the lowbrows in our society with no discipline or impulse control. No one forces people to abuse these drugs. It's a choice.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74970606


of course they have a choice. but addiction is a disease with no one-pill cure. many addicts can be clean for months or longer then relapse.

and in many of these recent cases, it IS the drugs that's killing them because many heroin users don't know they're taking hot shots. their regular dose is killing them because the heroin has been laced with fentanyl.

it's like someone who quit smoking then slipped and had a cigarette one day that was soaked in cyanide. this is what is killing many heroin users today...hot drugs.
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06/05/2017 05:56 PM
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Just liberals and snowflakes, nothing more. MAGA!
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Just liberals and snowflakes, nothing more. MAGA!
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actually districts that voted for trump are generally ones hit harder by drug overdoses

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Just liberals and snowflakes, nothing more. MAGA!
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actually districts that voted for trump are generally ones hit harder by drug overdoses

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72177819


So it is worse in low-population/rural areas?

Riiiight.
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Government is putting the poison in the drugs. Imagine a dealer trying to kill people so he can LOSE BUSINESS? DON"T THINK SO!
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Just look around you at how people are acting and behaving.

You dont really have detailed discussions with people anymore. Most people are just waiting to get home to remove themselves...
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Government is putting the poison in the drugs. Imagine a dealer trying to kill people so he can LOSE BUSINESS? DON"T THINK SO!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8432591


I generally don't discuss addictions and narcotics because it's a pretty con diluted fine line. However I HAVE to touch on this.

You couldn't be anymore correct, as in saying the GOV'T is behind the epidemics.

Let me paint you a picture...

Where, oh where on this planet of ours has the most poppy/hectare ratio?

Hint; We invaded there in 2001/2002.

Grey area;

-Who owns those poppy fields?
-Who supplies security and readily transports the refined product internationally?


White area;
-More funding to State correctional facilities
-More funding to Law enforcement (Fed/State)
-More return revenue from incarceration per stricter sentencing guidelines

Black area;

- To make the non-addicted populous nod and agree to tax hikes to cover the white areas, extremely dangerous narcotics "appear" on the street and cause hell.
- Misappropriated funding to help boost "militarizing" Law Enforcement agencies.
- Pockets on a local level and Fed level being lined with money received from increased informants and illicit/nefarious practices of distribution/convictions.


Hell, damn near everything anyone ever has been told about most anything in the last 30 years, has been fabricated.

Nothing just "happens" anymore.
Everything has an agenda.

People are dying from the GOV'T's agenda. I lost a good friend just the other day.

Kicker is, folks, not a damn thing anyone can do to stop it.

Last Edited by Waiting For The Crash on 06/05/2017 07:09 PM
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And you'll be back on the 14th and not admit that you were wrong. You'll either act like you didn't say it and you'll pronounce some new doom date or you'll come back as someone else (and probably declare a new doom date.)

That's how it always works. Nobody knows. Nobody will know.
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