Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity

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[–]ActuallyNot 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yep. The US opioid crisis kills white people, particularly white men.

But starting to pick up in black communities.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not sure why anyone would use right now, it seems like fentanyl is in everything. Your thing says 68k opioid deaths for 2020, and this article says "between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people between 18 and 45 years old — 37,208 in 2020 and 41,587 in 2021 — died of fentanyl overdoses.

[–]chottohen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You can always do more but you can't do less. Take care.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Well, opioids never were my thing. Like cocaine or benzos never were.

But i know firsthand that they can be very deadly and are easy to overdose.

In Germany, Fentanyl doesn't seem to be this big of a problem like it is on your side of the ocean, though.

[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I have this wacky theory that the reason the US left Afghanistan is because Heroin is no longer needed since Fentanyl will fill the same need without requiring thousands of hectares of land that have to be guarded with thousands of troops. All you need is a few labs and the chemicals to make it. But then, I never tried Fentanyl.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, two of my ex gf's did. One died from taking Suboxone to the next level, so to say.

And don't get me started on the other one.

It's hard to ignore bodies which "their" soul left, you know ? Dead or alive.

And Afghanistan, like all the "stan's" is about resources they can't smash and grab.

Possibly i can tell more next spring after my trip to Siberia this winter.

[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I do not recommend either but it was in my misspent youth that I somehow survived.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Let 'em die. The strong and the smart survive to pass along better traits.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe one day you'll come to realize that there are forces that are stronger than men are.

But that isn't the "problem". The problem is other men exploiting them.

No "drug" problem ever could exist, if they weren't aviable in abundance, e.g. .

But this is saidit. I hope you don't start drowning once you realize how deep the stuff that gets posted here actually is, sometimes.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No "drug" problem ever could exist . . . if there were no idiots to use those drugs.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No "drug" problem ever could exist, if and only if there wasn't a dime to make on it.

Exploiting humans weaknesses.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Looks like whitey won this race.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or it is about most "white" people being rather "middle"-class in US, actually.