According to the CDC, overdoses death rates involving psychostimulants, including methamphetamines and cocaine, have been rising since 2010. In 2017, the number of people dying from overdoses involving psychostimulants rose above 10,000, an increase of 37% from the year before.
Methamphetamine was the drug most frequently involved in overdose deaths in the regions that include Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada and Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Typically, fentanyl, along with white powder heroin, has been more common east of the Mississippi River, and Mexican black tar and brown powder heroin has been more commonly found west of the Mississippi.
In 2017, the latest year for which complete data is available, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses. Opioids such as fentanyl and heroin represented about 68% of those deaths.
Golly gee I thought it was prescribed medication and pain relief that caused all the overdoses!
I realize this torture of patients is financially advantageous and allows a few to control the masses, I just wonder why journalists are complicit?? What’s in it for them??
About 40 people overdosed and 4 people died from overdose in my region of the country, which is METH CENTRAL, just a few days ago. A couple of people who used the same crap that so many od’d on came forward and told authorities it was meth (or supposed to be meth), not heroin. Meanwhile the bumbling idiots of that city (Mayor and other useless bureaucrats) are wondering what it was that caused so many od’s. (Seriously, this was a recent news story lol. I guess the tox reports haven’t came back, though I can make a pretty educated guess on what it was). Anyways, yes, meth never went away in my area … and now it’s tainted with illicit fentanyl.
I wonder what it is going to take before there is any fact based policy decision on any of this. The for profit healthcare system, the epidemic of despair, and Neoliberal economic policies combine to cultivate death and despair.
This is what happens when the corporations take over government regulatory agencies. Without systemic change, this is not going to end. At least a few wealthy individuals, and corporations are making a lot of money here.
Too bad they turned all of this into a marketing opportunity. The media is not reporting all of the facts either, because they are complicit. They either demonize low income people, or run adversity porn pieces, to give the appearance they are being compassionate.
This really looks Genocidal, and it is not going to get any better.
Kinda funny how I cant seem to be able to find ANY information written, but the truth on the streets is that illicit Fentanyl is being added to the meth and cocaine just like it is to the heroin. The drug dealers use it to extend the supply and make it much more addictive and the withdrawls are worse than ever. All this so that the drug dealers are guaranteed very addicted customers rushing back for more to avoid withdrawl, that is …….if the live.