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2018-12-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Deaths from opioid-cocaine cocktails have surged since 2010

[Wash Examiner] Drug cocktails of cocaine and opioids have caused a surge in deaths since 2010, the Washington Examiner found in an analysis of mortality data.

More than 10,100 people died from mixing the drugs in 2017, according to the analysis based on data from death certificates assembled into an online database by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The combination of cocaine and the powerful opioid fentanyl proved particularly deadly, killing 7,241 people.

The latest figures show an increase in the number deaths caused by opioids and cocaine of nearly 76 percent since 2012.

Furthermore, deaths from cocaine and crack alone, not mixed with opioids, neared the same levels in 2017 that they were about a decade prior, following what had been a leveling-off period. In 2017, 3,811 people died from cocaine or crack.

Federal health officials have been closely watching drug death data, noting that while the opioid crisis involving prescription painkillers, heroin, and fentanyl has generated a lot of attention, many people are succumbing to other drugs or to mixtures of drugs.

"It reminds us we need to pay attention to these trends every year because they can change rather rapidly," Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said when shown a copy of the data.

The figures were obtained through the CDC’s Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research, or WONDER database. The database collects information about causes of death, such as the types of drugs found during an autopsy. In a smaller proportion of cases, alcohol and benzodiazepines, such as Valium, also contributed to cocaine deaths.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-30 01:11|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 GRRRRRR

Posted by newc 2018-12-30 02:40|| 2018-12-30 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Collect your data. Pause and ponder but the beat goes on. No end in sight. So much focus now here but this problem is all around the world. As the populations grow who would have thought we would terminate ourselves. I see no turning point as yet. The future is here and will be for years to come.

Posted by Dale 2018-12-30 03:27|| 2018-12-30 03:27|| Front Page Top

#3 You have a reason to get up tomorrow morning or you don't.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-30 06:47|| 2018-12-30 06:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Self inflicted wound. At some point in life we all make free will choices. My only concern is for those victimized by the users to feed their habits.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-30 07:20|| 2018-12-30 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder how often Lee Schoenherr has an opioid-cocaine cocktail ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-30 08:10|| 2018-12-30 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if this did in yesterdays closeted Caliphateornian Reporter?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-30 09:03|| 2018-12-30 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Think of it as evolution in action.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-12-30 10:44|| 2018-12-30 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The coke you buy on the street is only a small % actual cocaine. The rest is...something else, and more frequently now, they're cutting it with fentanyl. Death wish to snort (or inject) something you don't know

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-30 10:57|| 2018-12-30 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Must be an awful lot of them who are eligible for Darwin Awards.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-12-30 15:31|| 2018-12-30 15:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Have to say that the government making it illegal makes it more harmful to society.

Addictive personalities will get addicted to WHATEVER and minimising the harm of what they get addicted to is the best real outcome.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-30 20:46|| 2018-12-30 20:46|| Front Page Top

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