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Concerning the "Opioid Epidemic"
So in 2015, 35,092 people died in car wrecks. A "high" or peak of motor vehicles deaths was 54,589 people died on the nations roads in 1972.
So, in 2015 13,000 died of heroin overdoses. Last I looked, doctors cant prescribe smack. (heroin to the babes in the woods out there)
In 2015 the top graph on this page: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates shows that the deaths from all opioids was under 35,000 roughly if I got that close to correct. O.K., ~ 20,000 were sick with life and killed themselves with non-heroin opioids. That is too bad.
Obviously, this conclusively shows we should outlaw motor vehicles/cars and all of us should ride bicycles or walk cause cars cause as many deaths as narcs!!
Sheesh, the only epidemic is in the minds of the media,lawyers and the ivory tower authorities.
Seeing people get sent home from ER's with legitimate, documented painful conditions that would benefit from a short course of narcotic analgesia is making me sick. (Ever try passing a kidney stone on tramadol?)
Now obviously in the areas where people have a high incidence of heroin addiction there needs to be consideration of some sort of treatment programs. Money or lack thereof is the deal here as is the uninsured and low socioeconomic status of the sufferers.
Q.E.D.
Kurt
Concerning the "Opioid Epidemic"
So in 2015, 35,092 people died in car wrecks. A "high" or peak of motor vehicles deaths was 54,589 people died on the nations roads in 1972.
So, in 2015 13,000 died of heroin overdoses. Last I looked, doctors cant prescribe smack. (heroin to the babes in the woods out there)
In 2015 the top graph on this page: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates shows that the deaths from all opioids was under 35,000 roughly if I got that close to correct. O.K., ~ 20,000 were sick with life and killed themselves with non-heroin opioids. That is too bad.
Obviously, this conclusively shows we should outlaw motor vehicles/cars and all of us should ride bicycles or walk cause cars cause as many deaths as narcs!!
Sheesh, the only epidemic is in the minds of the media,lawyers and the ivory tower authorities.
Seeing people get sent home from ER's with legitimate, documented painful conditions that would benefit from a short course of narcotic analgesia is making me sick. (Ever try passing a kidney stone on tramadol?)
Now obviously in the areas where people have a high incidence of heroin addiction there needs to be consideration of some sort of treatment programs. Money or lack thereof is the deal here as is the uninsured and low socioeconomic status of the sufferers.
Q.E.D.
Kurt