The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies
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#2"With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history..."
When have I heard that before?
Maybe during the crack epidemic. Or the meth epidemic. Now it's the opioids' turn.
"But this time it's different," I'm sure.
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#3"With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history..." When have I heard that before? Maybe during the crack epidemic. Or the meth epidemic. Now it's the opioids' turn. "But this time it's different," I'm sure.
Discount the rhetoric, count the bodies
Re: The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies
#4"With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history..." When have I heard that before? Maybe during the crack epidemic. Or the meth epidemic. Now it's the opioids' turn. "But this time it's different," I'm sure.
Discount the rhetoric, count the bodies
Agreed. See for instance https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid... with a graph showing US drug overdose deaths are far higher now (well, as of 2016 estimated data) than ever before.
There are indeed many drug panics. This one is the real thing.
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#5Mods: typo in title - 'overdoes' instead of 'overdose(s)'
Re: The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies
#6Don't do drugs kids. And don't take pain killers.
Re: The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies
#7"With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history..." When have I heard that before? Maybe during the crack epidemic. Or the meth epidemic. Now it's the opioids' turn. "But this time it's different," I'm sure.
Wait, is your contention that the US can't have a series of worsening problems with drugs over the last 40-50 years as wages have stalled and the economy rotted?
That seems... Unreasonable.
If a problem is growing, every iteration should be the worst in history.
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#8"With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history..." When have I heard that before? Maybe during the crack epidemic. Or the meth epidemic. Now it's the opioids' turn. "But this time it's different," I'm sure.
Yes, this time is different -- since white people are dying, we suddenly feel sympathy. When blacks OD from crack, they were thrown into jail and treated like morally failed individuals. When whites die from heroin, we feel sympathy and want to treat them.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discount the rhetoric, count the bodies
Agreed. See for instance https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid... with a graph showing US drug overdose deaths are far higher now (well, as of 2016 estimated data) than ever before. There are indeed many drug panics. This one is the real thing.
I had no idea that drug overdoses are the number 1 cause of mortaliy for people under 50 in the US. Ok I don't live there, and I know from the web and talking to US citizens it's not all as sunny&happy as some media wants the outside world to believe, but this sounds pretty bad. The NYT article wisely doesn't try to point to an underlying cause, anyone? Is it e.g. a worsening of socio-economic factors or is there more to it?
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#10So what effect would drug decriminalization have on this situation?