Fentanyl is the deadliest drug in America, CDC confirms
Fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in drug overdoses, according to a new government report. The latest numbers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics say that the rate of drug overdoses involving the synthetic opioid skyrocketed by about 113% each year from 2013 through 2016.
The number of total drug overdoses jumped 54% each year between 2011 and 2016. In 2016, there were 63,632 drug overdose deaths.
[...] In 2016, over 18,000 overdose deaths involved fentanyl, and 16,000 fatalities were due to heroin.
China recently agreed to reclassify fentanyl as a controlled substance to curb sales to the U.S. Will that agreement hold given ongoing trade war tensions?
Also at CBS.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Friday December 14 2018, @01:42PM
Most of my smoking ancestors and ancestors in laws died in their 60s/70s and most of my non-smoking died in their 70s/80s so we'll call smoking as about 15 lost years fairly well guaranteed.
I'm under the vague impression that fentanyl kills mostly gen-Z 20-somethings, so figure 60 lost years with no math support or proof at all other than screeching propaganda TV news.
Google claims there's a million heroin addicts in the USA an fentanyl is killing about 1% of them per year, which isn't really that much pressure on the population, it takes the average user a century of use to die of fentanyl. It shouldn't lower the average age of death of users by very much. As such if all the news stories are about young kids dying, that would imply the "real" problem is young kids being addicts, not that a tiny fraction OD.
So I'm not sure if near certain odds of losing 15 years from smoking compares really well to fentanyl where losing either 60 years if you're really unlucky but on average most lose nothing at all.
Also my spell corrector wants to call "fentanyl" as "entangle" I guess my browser isn't designed for degenerates.