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Friday, November 19th, 2021

100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic

Author:     Dan Keating and Lenny Bernstein
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     18 November 2021 | 11:43 a.m. EST
 Link: 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic
Stephan:   As with so many other negative social outcome measures the United States is an outlier with results that are orders of magnitude worse than any other developed nation when deaths due to drug overdoses are compared. Over 100,000 people - 275 each day -- died from over doses between April 2020 and April 2021. Poverty, wealth inequality, poor healthcare, lack of opportunity, racism are some of the circumstances provoking drug overdose deaths. Millions of Americans are miserable, and drugs are their escape from their misery. America has become a feudal culture designed to support the rich and the truth, I am sorry to say, is that on the basis of actions not words, no one cares. No one really gives a damn if 100,000 peasants kill themselves with drugs.

The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. It is the first time that drug-related deaths have reached six figures in any 12-month period.Tracker: U.S. coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations

The people who died — 275 every day — would fill the stadium where the University of Alabama plays football. Together, they equal the population of Roanoke, Va.

The new data shows thereare now more overdose deaths from the illegal synthetic opioid fentanyl than there were overdose deaths from alldrugs in 2016.

Despite the efforts of governments, health-care providers, activists and others, the problem is growing much worse. The new figures, which are provisional but rarely change much in final tallies, represent a 28.5 percent increase from the same period a year earlier. The financial, social, mental health, housing and other difficulties of the covid-19 pandemic are widely blamed for much of the […]

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1 Comment

  1. Michaek on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 4:36 am

    Drug addiction and overdose affects both the rich and the poor, as well as the middle class.The issue is one of self worth, which is largely a product of how we were raised.Material progress and intellectual achievements are utterly useless without a foundation of religious and spiritual;values