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The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day
#22146534 - 08/26/15 01:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-heroin-crisis-is-so-bad-in-one-us-county-that-there-were-16-overdoses-in-one-day-2015-8
Washington county is nestled on the southwestern edge of Pennsylvania, bordering West Virginia. It has a population that just surpasses the 200,000 mark, and yet every day between five and eight of its inhabitants overdose on heroin.
Last weekend, the county experienced one of its worse overdose epidemics. In just 24 hours, 16 people overdosed. Over the whole weekend, 25 overdosed and three died, The Washington Post reports.
Every day in the US, an average of 110 people die from legal and illegal drug overdoses, according to The Post. Many of the Washington county people who overdosed were saved by the fact that all paramedics now carry a fast-acting antidote called naloxone.
Rick Gluth, a supervising detective on a Washington county drug task force, told The Washington Post that there had been a gradual increase in the number of overdoses over the last two years and that things "just went out of control."
"I’ve been a police officer for 27 years and worked narcotics for the last 15, and this is the worst. I’d be glad to have the crack epidemic back," Gluth said.
The number of heroin addicts in the US has sharply risen over the last decade, and, with it, the number of fatal heroin overdoses has gone up, too. Heroin use has doubled among young adults in the past 10 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In some parts of the US, the problem has gotten so bad that maternity wards have now started installing special units to wean newborns off drugs due to the increasing number of mothers taking drugs while pregnant.
When injected, heroin turns into morphine, which causes the body to become extremely relaxed and decreases the sense of pain. One of the reasons people die from a heroin overdose is that their body forgets to breathe.
"Heroin makes someone calm and a little bit sleepy, but if you take too much then you can fall asleep, and when you are asleep your respiratory drive shuts down," Dr. Karen Drexler, the former director of the addiction-psychiatry residency-training program at Emory University, told CNN. Heroin overdoses also cause heart failures and extreme blood-pressure drops.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Cognitive_Shift] 1
#22146777 - 08/26/15 02:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank mother nature for things like Ibogaine and Kratom...
Together we can overcome this drug epidemic, I certainly hope so at least.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Cognitive_Shift] 1
#22146852 - 08/26/15 02:27 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I kinda thought something like this would happen when they started cracking down on pharmies like Oxycontin.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Le_Canard]
#22147628 - 08/26/15 04:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I grew up in this area. Doesn't surprise me. Washington is a shithole. I have always said this. There are very few, if any, redeeming traits about that town. The area that surrounds it is pretty great, fairly rural, good people on the whole, a few nutbags, but whatever. The city of Washington operates like a group of somewhat closeknit gypsies showed up and never left. It used to be a Mecca for opiate painkillers, it is no surprise that heroin has taken over.
However, I for one believe that heroin should be legal. With pure, legal heroin, there are no overdoses, only suicides.
I should clarify that I don't think the people of Washington deserve to die. Only that it doesn't surprise me that so many use heroin, I probably would if I lived there, the place is a shithole. For real.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: xFrockx]
#22147707 - 08/26/15 05:13 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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The rust belt has had a bad problem with opiates ever since they started prescribing them liberally in 2001 Not to mention it's an economically fucked.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: xFrockx]
#22147834 - 08/26/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm in a pretty prosperous area of mid-Tn and we even had a few pill mills around here. I haven't run into the big H, but I'm plenty sure it's around. The opiate problem is everywhere.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Le_Canard] 1
#22147950 - 08/26/15 05:59 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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put the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, and watch how fast the heroin supply runs low
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: P-O] 1
#22147968 - 08/26/15 06:02 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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You're probably right about that one.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Le_Canard]
#22148619 - 08/26/15 08:01 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Le_Canard said: I'm in a pretty prosperous area of mid-Tn and we even had a few pill mills around here. I haven't run into the big H, but I'm plenty sure it's around. The opiate problem is everywhere.
I was in rehab in Knoxville. Pills were EVERYWHERE around there, I was one of the few people there not for pills.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#22148662 - 08/26/15 08:07 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm sure there were. Likewise in, say, Casper Wyoming too I'd bet. Everywhere.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: P-O]
#22149087 - 08/26/15 09:24 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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P-O said: put the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, and watch how fast the heroin supply runs low
According to the DEA's 2014 National Drug Threat Assessment, Mexico produces nearly half of the heroin found in the United States, up from 39 percent in 2008.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-heroin-boom-is-forcing-mexican-opium-farmers-to-plant-more-2015-2#ixzz3jyx0n9DU
Idk how accurate the DEAs statistic is but Mexico is stepping up to the plate as far as heroin goes, your right Taliban would probably stop production in Afghanistan again but i think at this point it would just shift even more to mexico.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: RickSanchezC137]
#22149246 - 08/26/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Didn't know that. Should have counted on the Cartel's ability to find new revenue sources.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: musiclover420]
#22149667 - 08/27/15 12:53 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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musiclover420 said:

Thank mother nature for things like Ibogaine and Kratom...
Together we can overcome this drug epidemic, I certainly hope so at least.
You know mother nature made poppy's as well right?
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: vandago]
#22149745 - 08/27/15 01:49 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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wish I was there, sounds like there's some good shit going around
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Laughingcowwa] 1
#22149810 - 08/27/15 02:36 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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maybe they should make overdosing illegal. If they outlaw it, it may prevent people from doing it.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Ogla]
#22149817 - 08/27/15 02:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Finally, someone with some logic speaks up.. I'll just need a little funding though to get that accomplished.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Ogla]
#22149867 - 08/27/15 03:55 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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losfreddy said: maybe they should make overdosing illegal. If they outlaw it, it may prevent people from doing it.
Or you know allow over the counter narcan which has no recreational value and will only reduce the amount of ODs.
But i like where youre going.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: RickSanchezC137]
#22149949 - 08/27/15 05:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've used suboxone on a couple of occasions to bring someone back. They were not a happy camper but at least they were breathing again. It's really too bad they aren't handing out narcan to people for free.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: RickSanchezC137]
#22149992 - 08/27/15 06:20 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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RickSanchezC137 said:
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losfreddy said: maybe they should make overdosing illegal. If they outlaw it, it may prevent people from doing it.
Or you know allow over the counter narcan which has no recreational value and will only reduce the amount of ODs.
But i like where youre going.
I'm all for OTC narcan, but I'm not so sure it would reduce the overall number of overdoses, but it should at least reduce the number of overdoses resulting in death.
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Re: The heroin crisis is so bad in one US county there were 16 overdoses in one day [Re: Ojom]
#22150019 - 08/27/15 06:43 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow, that is an insane number of OD's in a day. I hope "that boy" never makes it to Georgia to that extent. Yes, we have a meth problem, which has its own issues, but I cannot imagine a heroin epidemic where I live. It would be super nasty with all the dumb asses here.
Granted, I have heard tales of H being around, but its mainly been extracted from Fentanyl patches so it isn't true heroin. Granted, it is no less dangerous. However, it doesn't seem to be catching on yet.
Only time will tell though.
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