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Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday.
That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly 75 percent from 2014 to 2015.
Heroin deaths spiked too, rising by more than 2,000 cases. For the first time since at least the late 1990s, there were more deaths due to heroin than to traditional opioid painkillers, like hydrocodone and oxycodone.
"The epidemic of deaths involving opioids continues to worsen," said CDC Director Tom Frieden in a statement. "Prescription opioid misuse and use of heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl are intertwined and deeply troubling problems."
According to health officials, Mercer County, West Virginia now has the most per capita hepatitis B cases in the nation and ranks third for the number of hepatitis C infections.
Per capita, Mercer County has the highest number of people living with hepatitis B in the country and the third most for hepatitis C. It’s been that way for at least 3 years and Mercer County Public Health Nurse Judy Bolton says the numbers continue to climb.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Martin75
Care to comment on why this is happening? Is it simply an increase in demand, or an increase in street availability, a drop in price perhaps? What makes statistically significantly more people decide to jam poison into their veins?
originally posted by: Zerodoublehero
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Martin75
Care to comment on why this is happening? Is it simply an increase in demand, or an increase in street availability, a drop in price perhaps? What makes statistically significantly more people decide to jam poison into their veins?
The main reason IMO is prescription pain killers are so easily available. What is happening is you are now getting younger kids taking them mostly to party with and such. What ends up happening with these highly addictive drugs is they end up needed to take them.
Now when they are spending 90 bucks for 3 pills and they can buy 1 bag of heroine for 10 bucks that does the same effect. You can sort if see as to why people turn to a drug like that
Its not just kids being effected either.
Where did all the idiots come from? Because from what I can tell of the stuff, you would have to be pants on head mad to even consider experimenting with that junk.
Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S. occupation started in 2001.
Global Research
originally posted by: JakeR777
a reply to: JimNasium
OMG could wiki have picked a more obviously incriminationg photo with a military tank parked , guarding the poppy field!?!?