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Drug overdoses are rising in many states west of the Mississippi, and dramatically so in California, even as they are falling across much of the East.
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Drug overdoses are rising in many states west of the Mississippi, and dramatically so in California, even as they are falling across much of the East.
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This trend has only recently become clear in government mortality data. The increase in overdoses in the West is an ominous development that comes after a short period of progress in bringing down the overall drug-overdose death toll.
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the provisional CDC statistics released last week, which include estimated underreporting of deaths by medical examiners, show a slight uptick in fatal overdoses nationally over the first half of 2019.
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In California, fatal drug overdoses over the previous 12 months increased 13.4 percent between July 2018 and July 2019, the last month for which the CDC has compiled provisional data — an additional 728 deaths.
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In contrast, Illinois’ fatal drug deaths were down 8% Pennsylvania’s down 10% Michigan’s down 13% and Maine’s down 20%
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The overdoses in the West are driven largely by opioids, particularly fentanyl.
Historically, the West Coast opioid market has been dominated by black tar heroin, a gunky substance not easily mixed with white powder fentanyl
tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/1…
Historically, the West Coast opioid market has been dominated by black tar heroin, a gunky substance not easily mixed with white powder fentanyl
tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/1…
That’s the orthodox explanation for why fentanyl first became popular in the eastern United States, where white powder heroin has historically been favored and drug dealers could more easily blend fentanyl and heroin.
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Fentanyl started becoming more common in the west around 2015. The medical examiner’s latest numbers tell an alarming story: Deaths in San Francisco from fentanyl and/or heroin jumped from 79 in 2017 to 134 in 2018 and then more than doubled to 290 in 2019
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Why?
People are dying from other drugs with a large spike in deaths linked to meth. Efforts to cut off access to meth precursors sold in pharmacies have helped shut down local meth labs, but that opened a new market for the Mexican drug cartels
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People are dying from other drugs with a large spike in deaths linked to meth. Efforts to cut off access to meth precursors sold in pharmacies have helped shut down local meth labs, but that opened a new market for the Mexican drug cartels
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While ICE is now mainly focusing on immigration, this is happening. There is a direct correlation folks.
“You have no mom and pop labs anymore because so much is coming from the Mexican cartels,”
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“You have no mom and pop labs anymore because so much is coming from the Mexican cartels,”
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The drug-using population overlaps to a great degree with the homeless population. 15 yrs ago you rarely saw people on the street injecting drugs, and estimated that only about a 1/4 to 1/3 of people injecting drugs were homeless. Now, upward of 75% are.
realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/…
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What is the solution? There are so many prongs, that especially with this administration taking valuable resources from the illegal drug trade, and focusing on immigration, there seems to be a direct correlation in the last 3 years of the drug overdoses rising on the West Coast.
