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Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns
#23915653 - 12/11/16 09:15 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-overdose-deaths-heroin-opioid-prescription-painkillers-more-than-guns/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=32197777
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December 9, 2016, 11:44 AM Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than guns
More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year — the most ever.
The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids.
Heroin deaths rose 23 percent in one year, to 12,989, slightly higher than the number of gun homicides, according to government data released Thursday. New approaches to pain and addiction amid America's opioid epidemic Play Video New approaches to pain and addiction amid America's opioid epidemic
Deaths from synthetic opioids, including illicit fentanyl, rose 73 percent to 9,580. And prescription painkillers took the highest toll, but posted the smallest increase. Abuse of drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin killed 17,536, an increase of 4 percent.
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this. Certainly not in modern times,” said Robert Anderson, who oversees death statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new numbers were part of the agency’s annual tally of deaths and death rates in 2015.
Overall, overdose deaths rose 11 percent last year, to 52,404. By comparison, the number of people who died in car crashes was 37,757, an increase of 12 percent. Gun deaths, including homicides and suicides, totaled 36,252, up 7 percent.
As part of its annual report, the CDC also found that rates for 8 of the 10 leading causes of death rose last year, causing the nation’s life expectancy to go down for the first time in more than 20 years. Drug overdoses were a significant factor, but an unexpected increase in the death rate from heart disease, the nation’s No. 1 killer, was another major reason.
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Re: Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns [Re: 404] 1
#23916130 - 12/11/16 12:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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prescription painkillers took the highest toll, but posted the smallest increase.
Even the Cartels can't beat Big Pharma.
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Re: Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns [Re: Apostle]
#23917362 - 12/11/16 06:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Why do so many grow to become dependent on opiods? It's a sad state of affairs.
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Re: Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns [Re: Freedreamer]
#23917373 - 12/11/16 06:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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it's the pharmacological nature of our body's chemistry, biology, and of the drug itself.
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Re: Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns [Re: 404]
#23917413 - 12/11/16 06:42 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think there is also a social dimension to it; their lives aren't so great so they turn to painkillers.
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Re: Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns [Re: Freedreamer]
#23917458 - 12/11/16 06:49 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think thats a BIG part of it.
Look at russia where 50% of the people you see out and about are drunk and then you have a huge wave of people using that krokodil shit. Life really has to suck in russia.
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Re: Overdoses now kill more Americans than guns [Re: Freedreamer]
#23922177 - 12/13/16 10:28 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Because you feel invincible and incredible on them, that's why. It's like a giant warm hug. The few times I've had opiates in my life, it's been incredible. I don't take them regularly because they make me really sick, but I know if they didn't, I would be a heroin addict guaranteed.
I really believe this story. Just about every day on Facebook, I'm reading about another classmate lost and when it's not a classmate, it's someone I went to church with as a kid.
It's a tremendous problem.
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