November 6, 2019 |
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Opioid Deaths in US by Type (click for
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AN ONLINE PUBLICATION OF THE
ANONYMOUS ANYTHING SOCIETY |
THE USA IS LOSING MORE PEOPLE TO
OPIOIDS THAN TO WAR
Far, far more. The numbers we see in a cursory search are staggering.
According to the Society of Actuaries, more than 400,000 Americans have
died from drug overdoses since the year 2000, the year they started
keeping stats on reported ODs. No agency has made a guesstimate of how
many drug overdose-caused bodies of addicts whose unidentified and
uncounted remains end up in municipal morgues and potters’ fields.
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is one stat that is apparent to trained medics and police: the
introduction of the synthetic opioid fentanyl from illicit sources,
including China, is driving the death trend-line statistic up almost
vertically.
Fentanyl is less expensive than other synthetic opioids such as
hydrocodone and oxycontin to produce and is 80 to 100 times more
powerful.
Police in Dayton. Ohio recently interdicted 40 pounds of fentanyl in one
shipment, enough to kill the entire population of Ohio; enough that one
official with Homeland Security to term fentanyl a “Weapon of Mass
Destruction.”
The number of deaths is appalling, but you say “I’m never going to
experiment with opioids of any kind.” Nevertheless, the Centers of
Disease Control and Prevention estimate the annual cost to prevent and
treat the Opioid Crises is costing we taxpayers an average of
$79-Billion annually; a number not to be sneezed at.
There should be a way of exacting part of these costs from China.
-Phil Richardson, Storyteller and Observer of the Human Condition.
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