Can you believe how our media is not now saturated with the magnitude of these fatalities? I have had a severe alcohol addiction in my younger life. It basically emerged from my poor upbringing and my inherent weaknesses. The hardest years I ever had was the first five years after quitting drinking. So here is my analysis of this problem. Whether its heroin or alcohol, about twenty percent of population gets addicted. Course, heroin is a lot more additive than booze.
We brought up a significant percentage of our population who is highly sensitive to addictions. This particular addiction changes the pleasure controlling areas of our brains almost like no other drug or chemical. Their brains are severely damaged. Some will recover, but a high percentage will never be recoverable. That is what you see in AA. But heroin in magnitudes worst.
1) If 20% of the population of heroin users become addicts and we see the magnitude of the size of the heroin problem as only in overdoses...the user population who don't become addicted is much bigger than portrayed. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg with our national problem with heroin.
2) The cost of heroin addiction is like a giant tax on all of us. Heroin is a very expensive addiction. It is very expensive with extra police services, courts, jails, repeated rehabs, their kids...unrecoverable wrecked human lives all around us. What expenses am I missing. The Boston "Baby Doe" murder emerged from groups of people being addicted to heroin. WE are having increasing drug gang murder rates in big cities. The profits from heroin is feeding all of this gang activity. How much money of this intensified gang action costing us? How many innocent homes were broken into to the feed the heroin addiction?
This fixation with rehabbing addicts is sometimes a scam to limit governmental expensive to the addicts by the politicians. This only makes the situation worst. Our priority should be getting these drugs off our street now. It is a grave national security issue now.
3)28,647 opiate overdoses in 2014 It has exploded in 2015. Is it at a doubling rate per year? What does the rate depended on?
- 28,647 deaths in 2014
- 56,494 deaths in 2015 This a Vietnam war level event in two years. It took a decade of war to create 50,500 American deaths.
- 112,988 deaths in 2016
If you want to get a take on how immoral a country has become, this is the issue. This is like a terrorist setting off a small atomic bomb in our country and letting them get away with it. What would we do if a terrorist killed 28,000 Americans in on swipe?
A tremendously increasing percentage of our population is being directly exposed to the sorrows of heroin addiction. Exponentially more people not directly exposed to the sorrows, neighbors and word of mouth...the increase of stories in the media...huge segments of our society are unnerved by heroin problems. The white conservative segment of society took advantage of heroin addiction in the black ghettos in the 1960s and 1970s. Lots of politicians improperly got elected through exaggerating the threat of this. Lawlessness is rampant in our nation, elect me and I will put them all jail. This is mostly a white addiction today.I don't understand why the politicians aren't unnerving the populous with all our current heroin lawlessness. Gaining a political advantage?
2) The international security strategy should go like this. Pick the three largest countries who produce heroin poppies and make heroin. Choose the weak link out of the three options. It is called deterrence. Military and economically embargo the evil country. Make a example out of them. Say, we will squeeze the life out of your country if you don't put a stop to producing poppies and making heroin. If heroin continues to leak out of your country into our country through any means, then we will bomb specific targets in your country. Make the knees of the rest countries who produce and distribute heroin tremble with just the whisper the word USA. Regret they ever were born.
Rose A. Rudd, MSPH1; Noah Aleshire, JD1; Jon E. Zibbell, PhD1; R. Matthew Gladden, PhD1
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths. Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137%, including a 200% increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (opioid pain relievers and heroin). CDC analyzed recent multiple cause-of-death mortality data to examine current trends and characteristics of drug overdose deaths, including the types of opioids associated with drug overdose deaths. During 2014, a total of 47,055 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, representing a 1-year increase of 6.5%, from 13.8 per 100,000 persons in 2013 to 14.7 per 100,000 persons in 2014. The rate of drug overdose deaths increased significantly for both sexes, persons aged 25–44 years and ≥55 years, non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks, and in the Northeastern, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Rates of opioid overdose deaths also increased significantly, from 7.9 per 100,000 in 2013 to 9.0 per 100,000 in 2014, a 14% increase. Historically, CDC has programmatically characterized all opioid pain reliever deaths (natural and semisynthetic opioids, methadone, and other synthetic opioids) as "prescription" opioid overdoses (1). Between 2013 and 2014, the age-adjusted rate of death involving methadone remained unchanged; however, the age-adjusted rate of death involving natural and semisynthetic opioid pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids, other than methadone (e.g., fentanyl) increased 9%, 26%, and 80%, respectively. The sharp increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids, other than methadone, in 2014 coincided with law enforcement reports of increased availability of illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a synthetic opioid; however, illicitly manufactured fentanyl cannot be distinguished from prescription fentanyl in death certificate data. These findings indicate that the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening. There is a need for continued action to prevent opioid abuse, dependence, and death, improve treatment capacity for opioid use disorders, and reduce the supply of illicit opioids, particularly heroin and illicit fentanyl.
In 2014, 61% (28,647, data not shown) of drug overdose deaths involved some type of opioid, including heroin. The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths involving opioids increased significantly from 2000 to 2014, increasing 14% from 2013 (7.9 per 100,000) to 2014 (9.0) (Figure 1). From 2013 to 2014, the largest increase in the rate of drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, other than methadone (e.g., fentanyl and tramadol), which nearly doubled from 1.0 per 100,000 to 1.8 per 100,000 (Figure 2). Heroin overdose death rates increased by 26% from 2013 to 2014 and have more than tripled since 2010, from 1.0 per 100,000 in 2010 to 3.4 per 100,000 in 2014 (Figure 2). In 2014, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids (e.g., morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone), 3.8 per 100,000, was the highest among opioid overdose deaths, and increased 9% from 3.5 per 100,000 in 2013. The rate of drug overdose deaths involving methadone, a synthetic opioid classified separately from other synthetic opioids, was similar in 2013 and 2014.
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