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2024-10-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Drug overdoses falling in 40 states for first time in decades - but there's a morbid theory why

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 How about they're killing off their customers?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-09 07:34|| 2024-10-09 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ There seems to always be a marketing downside.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-09 07:37|| 2024-10-09 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 "Think of it as evolution in action." -Larry Niven

Posted by ed in texas 2024-10-09 08:50|| 2024-10-09 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Darwin smiles.

Posted by Craise Whelet4935 2024-10-09 10:02|| 2024-10-09 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure one person's story is merely "anectdotal", but I've been in my area for a couple of decades. I have *never* seen the current level of open and abject homelessness and addiction that I have noticed in the last 12 months. Highway overpasses that might previously have had a single homeless person panhandling now have the homeless (plural) positioned to panhandle in each direction, and when you look up UNDER the overpass(es) I've seen what could be as many as 10-20 additional humans with their collection of whatever-they-carry-around with them. And this type of sighting is almost daily (I drive a lot because of the nature of my work).

Posted by Crusader 2024-10-09 11:59|| 2024-10-09 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 There was a period around 2015 in Mahoning County where workplaces could not get ambulance response because the overdose rate absorbed all available resources bi Youngstown.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-10-09 12:42|| 2024-10-09 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Overdose rates skyrocketed during the Covid pandemic when millions suddenly lost access to in-person counseling and access to medication-assisted treatments. The forced isolation also likely exacerbated people’s cravings combined with mental health issueswhen Biden opened the border.

So many unnecessary words can be cut when you just tell the truth.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-10-09 12:56|| 2024-10-09 12:56|| Front Page Top

#8 And handed out pipes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-09 15:06|| 2024-10-09 15:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The culling-the-herd theory does not take into account new recruitment, which should be a factor, given current conditions.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-10-09 17:48|| 2024-10-09 17:48|| Front Page Top

#10 for some addicts death might be preferred to the cycle of overdose, antidote, overdose, antidote, seeming going on forever

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-10-09 19:54|| 2024-10-09 19:54|| Front Page Top

#11 I recall reading — probably here — that awareness that Narcan was likely to be given encouraged addicts to take higher doses for a bigger high, knowing that they probably would be saved before it proved deadly.

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