Drug deaths are down, but is drug use?

[Woodznutz]

Deaths from fentanyl are down, but use continues. Thanks to Narcan and changes in the way addicts use it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5295618/fentanyl-overdose-drugs

 

[JGalt]

Deaths from fentanyl are down, but use continues. Thanks to Narcan and changes in the way addicts use it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5295618/fentanyl-overdose-drugs

Narcan isn't the reason drug overdose deaths are down. President Trump and his border and immigration policies should get the credit for that. We are now intercepting more drugs than ever.

 

[1srelluc]

Put a 90 day moratorium on selling Narcan to the public. Let the issue work itself out.

 

[Woodznutz]

Narcan isn't the reason drug overdose deaths are down. President Trump and his border and immigration policies should get the credit for that. We are now intercepting more drugs than ever.

Fentanyl use is up in spite of border seizures, so there is still good supplies coming in..

 

[Woodznutz]

Put a 90 day moratorium on selling Narcan to the public. Let the issue work itself out.

Why deny evolution if we're going to teach it in schools. Under the ToE there is no inherent or intrinsic value to human life. Only that which we make up out of whole cloth.

 

[DGS49]

I suggest the death penalty for talking heads who say, "Fentanol."

My previous suggestion on "nuke-u-ler" was never implemented either.

 

[Kilroy2]

Provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate there were an estimated 80,391 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2024—a decrease of 26.9% from the 110,037 deaths estimated in 2023.

It could also be that so many are dying that it reduces the number of users.

Yeah Trump should be bragging that only 80. 391 last year and 110,337 in 2023

These numbers only reflect those who died. It doesn't address those who are using it and don't die

Also it is just an estimate. So they do not know the true numbers.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

I got a nice buzz.
I don't need any nar can

 

[JGalt]

I got a nice buzz.
I don't need any nar can

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Then it's nar can't for you bro.

 

[JohnDB]