More Heroin Deaths in USA Than Gun Homicide Deaths

[The Hammer]

Heroin Deaths Topped Gun Homicides Last Year

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0e05aded38bec

Opioid deaths hit 33,091 in 2015, quadrupling since 1999. Heroin deaths in particular rose 23 percent year over year to 12,989; synthetic opioid deaths rose 73 percent to 9,580.

“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this. Certainly not in modern times,” Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch of the CDC, told the Associated Press.

The new figures are a tragic expression of the United States’ urgent addiction problem. As it stands, more than 20 million Americans have a substance use disorder and 12.5 million report misusing prescriptions painkillers, behaviors linked to the aggressive marketing and overprescription of opioids in the 1980s-90s.

It doesn’t take long for prescription use to evolve into misuse. According to a new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey, a third of Americans who took a prescription opioid for two months or longer became addicted to or physically dependent on painkillers.

There have also been a huge number of deaths from overdoses of heroin/fentanyl here in Metro Vancouver. Total for BC in 2016 is already over 600, most of them in Metro Vancouver.

[Weltschmerz]

Thnx Freedom, this thread is also recent...

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=717621

[The Hammer]

Thnx Freedom, this thread is also recent...

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=717621

Sorry, I should have bumped that one instead of making a new one.

Never knew overdose deaths exceeded gun homicides in the USA though.

And I was shocked when I read how many people here in Metro Vancouver have died from overdoses this year.

[Zaroku]

Many doctors now specialize in pain management. Writing prescriptions is very lucrative. The initial consultation can be very expensive, as well as subsequent followup's. As long as you go by the book, the DEA is powerless, but waiting for pain management doctors to screw up.

[slimshandy69]

Welcome to obamas america....

[Thraxox]

And they had the nerve to Criticize the Philippines of its drug solution ey?

[baya]

Sorry, I should have bumped that one instead of making a new one.

Never knew overdose deaths exceeded gun homicides in the USA though.

And I was shocked when I read how many people here in Metro Vancouver have died from overdoses this year.

you have that stupid / girl way about you in that you repeat, in a painfully obnoxious way, what the fuk was just said.

go to another forum.

[Robbie Barrett]

And they had the nerve to Criticize the Philippines of its drug solution ey?

Murdering them instead is totally the right solution.

[BM dnobagaV]

Murdering them instead is totally the right solution.

And your solution is...?
Rehabilitate and re-instate within the general populace, creating a parity between criminals & non-criminals, I.e. Something communism (by virtue, liberalism) was built upon?

P.S. Coke is far better.

[The Hammer]

Many doctors now specialize in pain management. Writing prescriptions is very lucrative. The initial consultation can be very expensive, as well as subsequent followup's. As long as you go by the book, the DEA is powerless, but waiting for pain management doctors to screw up.

That very likely has a great deal to do with why it's happening.