Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
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Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
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Re: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
#2Well, right before the pandemic hit it was being reported that deaths of despair were up ticking so I doubt that trend has change with more pressure in the system.
March 23: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/why-americans-...
Re: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
#3I'm cynical enough at this point to wonder whether the states will add these terrible losses to the COVID-19-related statistics to advocate for stricter and longer lock-downs.
Re: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
#4Hardly a surprise, I'm sure suicide rates and alcohol consumption are going up as well. It's a combination of loneliness, lack of supervision (can't find a better word, I mean someone who could help in case of an overdose), despair about the future. This pandemic is unprecedented for the modern people, many don't have the means to deal with it psychologically.
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#5No kidding, just read all the shit in the news and here on what's supposed to be a tech news site, it's enough to make anybody do that.
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#6A lot of drug trade has stopped due to border closures. Obviously cannot reveal sources. I guess technically i am the source of info, knowing folks who are nervous to make house payments due to mexico border
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#7I'm cynical enough at this point to wonder whether the states will add these terrible losses to the COVID-19-related statistics to advocate for stricter and longer lock-downs.
What do you think motivates states to want stricter and longer lock-downs?
Re: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
#8I remember talking to a technically minded friend about my clinical depression, and I remember how she mentioned building an app to help solve it. I remember thinking at the time how sometimes building an app isn't the solution to a problem.
Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest, most straightforward, and the least innovative ones: voting in policymakers who craft empathetic public policy, donating to charity, being there for a friend.
Hope you all are doing well :)
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#9The same is happening in Canada, it's because addicts are able to get money from the government and they buy far more drugs than they're used to having.
Edit: all the people downvoting me, why? not a single comment
seriously, this isn't a theory, it's just the facts
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-pandemic-opioid-addict...
Re: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
#10Hardly a surprise, I'm sure suicide rates and alcohol consumption are going up as well. It's a combination of loneliness, lack of supervision (can't find a better word, I mean someone who could help in case of an overdose), despair about the future. This pandemic is unprecedented for the modern people, many don't have the means to deal with it psychologically.
Relentless doom and despair for at least a year with no leadership or hope in sight and the only thing you can do to help is to stay at home as much as possible. Yeah it's the perfect storm for any "self-medicators" out there.