The estimated 93,331 deaths from drug overdoses last year, a record high, represent the sharpest annual increase in at least three decades, and compare with an estimated toll of 72,151 deaths in 2019, according to provisional overdose-drug data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“That is a stunning number even for those of us who have tracked this issue,” said Brendan Saloner, associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Our public health tools have not kept pace with the urgency of the crisis.”
Brandon Marshall, a public health researcher at Brown University, said, “COVID has greatly exacerbated the crisis” of drug overdoses in America.
-Chuck
Looks like Nancy's "Just Say No" campaign isn't as effective as the Covid vaccine.
ReplyDeleteTo me a 'drug OD' does not exist unless it is an accidental OD of someone who misuses prescribed drugs.
ReplyDeleteFor the rest it is merely an early Darwin exit.
As I've worked through some health issues for the last year, I've noticed the Doctors and Nurses are surprised that other than an occasional Motrin I don't take any pain meds. I guess pain med addiction has become the rule rather than the exception.
ReplyDelete“Our public health tools have not kept pace with the urgency of the crisis.”
ReplyDeleteTranslation: Give me more money. More money. More money.
How many of those OD's were counted as COVID deaths so the state could get more federal monies?
ReplyDeleteMost plus regular flu deaths. As I recall, it's $19k for a Covid case and $39k if hospitalized and on a vent. Which is why the health agencies didn't bother to issue a doctor's treatment outpatient treatment plan for Covid. HCQ or Ivermectin smack that shit down quickly, so don't let your friends and relatives suffer.
DeleteThe chinese are losing fentanyl customers.
ReplyDeleteSomebody is going to pay for that [looking at you, Glorious Leader chinesium joe biden].
Enh, much, if not most, of the fentanyl comes from Mexico these days
DeleteYes by way of china!!!grayman
DeleteAnd where do they get the chemicals? From what I understand most of the fentanyl or chemical to make it comes form another lab in the wonderful city of WuHan!
DeleteLet's see... close businesses, tell people to stay indoors, with children (!!!), convince people that they could die from a virus that has a 99% survivability rate....pay them to not work... have I missed something?... and then sit back and see what happens. Oh my! Drug overdoses and increased domestic violence! Who KNEW?! The Dems' fingerprints are all over this.
ReplyDeleteOf course.
DeleteThe fuckers now want to lockdown AGAIN because it worked so well last time.
More fear porn in 3 2 1.
Like any politician caused problem, only *they* can fix it. (With piles of cash from UKnowWho)
As well as DV (domestic Violence), suicide (had 2 high-schoolers this past year in a class of 16 commit suicide - both struggled with depression), and child abuse.
ReplyDeleteBut what the hell do I know?? I'm just part of the front line of emergency services.....
Funny how we can get an accurate accounting of deaths by overdose, but can't get the same for deaths by Covid.
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