Last year, 754 people died of overdoses in Davidson County. Based on data for areas with more than 500,000 people from February 2022 through January 2023, Davidson County’s overdose death rate is the second highest in the nation, just below Baltimore, Maryland.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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I honestly don't see what the issue is here. It appears to be a self-correcting problem. Talk about non-producing, useless eaters; if the junkies want to self terminate why are we trying to save them.
ReplyDelete"Their bodies, their choice" comes to mind. To help them out ban Narcan, legalize Fentanyl and stop EMTs from responding to the nitwit's O.D.ing.
ReplyDeleteExcept those accidently overdose. When theyre a productive member of society. Throw them away as well?
ReplyDeleteJohn h
Im talkin about my son so be careful of ut comments
Thx Kenny. He passed on 8/21/23.
ReplyDeleteOh hell, I'm so sorry. As always, I'm at a loss for words when something like this happens.
DeleteWe talking about numbers generated by a government beaurocracy edited by the politicians for their agenda. I think I can get better numbers pulling them out of my butt. Coroners were getting extra pay classifying deaths as covid. I believe some places have stopped reporting their statistics to the fbi/ss whatever you want to call them.
ReplyDeleteNo. I'm a Medical Examiner in a non-Coroner state. Coroners and Medical Examiners do not get paid on the basis of our classification of deaths. That would destroy our purpose. *Clinicians* and *hospitals* received bonuses based on COVID diagnoses. Not Coroners or Medical Examiners. We have no incentive to call a death one thing versus another.
DeleteDrug deaths are a tremendous burden on our offices. There are about 700 board-certified forensic pathologists active, and job needs for about 1400 as of last count. It is almost impossible to fill positions right now. I retired in three years ago, and still go in part time simply because my old office would collapse under the workload without folk like me coming in. A very large part of that workload are drug deaths that simply didn't happen ten years ago. In my office, drug deaths made up 38% of the cases we investigated in the first half of 2023, which amounted to a workload equivalent to two full time forensic pathologists.
The other thing to remember is that a lot of these deaths nowadays are not due to classic "overdose." They are sudden deaths due to adulterating a drug with fentanyl or one of the "novel" fentanyl derivatives like acetyl fentanyl, carfentanil, parafluorofentanyl, etc. Fentanyl commonly does not kill by the classic "respiratory depression" pathway. It can cause a very rapid death due to direct effects on the heart. Among people who died witnessed deaths after taking fentanyl, 75% of the cases involved sudden death within seconds to minutes of taking the drug.
Thank you sir. I feel that may be what occurred he was an occasional user or so he said so hopefully the m/e’s office can shed more light on it. It will help the family to know for sure
DeleteJohn h