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2022-06-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

‘A deadly combination': excessive heat adds to Arizona opioid epidemic's toll

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 A trillion annually? Ima throwing the bullshit flag

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-25 09:56|| 2022-06-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-06-25 11:41|| Front Page Top

#3 -scratches chin-

But it subtracts from the problem.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-25 13:27|| 2022-06-25 13:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-06-25 13:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-06-25 17:49|| Front Page Top

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