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SunSeeker

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4. We still have more people dying from heroin than fentanyl.

Reply to Nevernose (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 16, 2017, 12:06 AM

Oct 2017

But fentanyl is catching up, resulting in some high profile deaths. Michael Jackson and Prince took it, leading to their OD deaths.

In 2014, 4,200 people in the U.S. died from overdoses involving fentanyl, up from 1,905 people in 2013. But deaths from heroin more than tripled during a five-year period, from 3,020 deaths in 2010, to 10,863 deaths in 2014. Nonetheless, death rates for synthetic opioids other than methadone (including the drugs tramadol and fentanyl) increased 72 percent from 2014 to 2015. Heroin deaths increased 20 percent during that time period.
http://www.livescience.com/57268-fentanyl-overdose-deaths-double.html

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60 Minutes opioid crisis...must see [View all] SHRED Oct 2017 OP

Not one member of the house or senate voted against this legislation MattP Oct 2017 #1

Histrionics. We dont have an opioid crisis Nevernose Oct 2017 #2

Did you watch it? SHRED Oct 2017 #3

We still have more people dying from heroin than fentanyl. SunSeeker Oct 2017 #4

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word. nt TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #6

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