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| ‘A deadly combination': excessive heat adds to Arizona opioid epidemic's toll |
| 2022-06-25 |
| [TheGuardian] Opioid fatalities – driven by synthetics such as fentanyl – in the state were up 80% last year compared with 2018 and punishing heat is making things worse. America’s opioid crisis has reached epidemic levels. In Arizona alone paramedics and police have responded to between 700 and 800 suspected overdoses every month so far this year, administering naloxone in 80% of callouts. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 A trillion annually? Ima throwing the bullshit flag From the RAND report: "In 2018, according to the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the cost of overdose fatalities was $696 billion, despite being roughly two-thirds of annual overdose deaths today. It is therefore reasonable to estimate that drug overdoses are now costing the United States approximately $1 trillion annually." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-06-25 17:49 |
| #4 #2 It is also not that rare to find drug users passed out on railroad tracks, but none seems to blame the railroads for those deaths Lib Logic: "The trains should just go around them!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-25 13:52 |
| #3 -scratches chin- But it subtracts from the problem. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-06-25 13:27 |
| #2 It is also not that rare to find drug users passed out on railroad tracks, but none seems to blame the railroads for those deaths. |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-06-25 11:41 |
| #1 A trillion annually? Ima throwing the bullshit flag |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-25 09:56 |