Opioid deaths mounting, lawmakers hit gas on new legislative pus

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7. This whole thing pisses me off

The vast majority of these deaths are from people using heroin and getting fentanyl instead. Not from prescription opiods.it is people driven out of the legal system through strict opiod regulation.

The idea driving more people to heroin or other illegal but accessible avenues is the answer enrages me.




That chart shows pretty clearly the huge spike in overdoses due to heroin and other synthetic opiods such as fentynal. While your typical prescription opiod deaths does increase it is nothing like the spike in the illegal alternatives.