At 91 Overdose Deaths A Day, Opioid Epidemic May Still Be Underestimated: CDC Report -
 

Is that just in Minnesota, or the USA at large?

The very first sentence of the very first paragraph:

"The opioid abuse epidemic in the United States may already be bad enough by leading to 91 overdose deaths every day."

:winkwink:

This is why I grow my own weed & only take prescription drugs. You never know WTF you're getting on the street.

Yeah I saw that, but further on ... "Hall insisted that opioids aren?t just a Minnesota problem."

It's a massive issue, Fentanyl is killing people like crazy. Heroin is littered with the shit

Yet we all focus on Terrorism.


Gonna park this right here:

Fair point :thumbsup

It's working well in Canada :helpme

Opiates are RX's as well. The main reason for the opioid epidemic is the onslaught of easy to get prescriptions

Yep. I was watching a show a couple of weeks ago about this guy who was 800 pounds and couldn't walk more than a few steps, but still managed to script shop and had Oxycontin prescriptions from over a dozen doctors and he had gotten about 1,300 pills in just one month.

A lot of these addicts start taking these pain meds for legit reasons then get hooked on them. Some of them end up running out of money or ways to get the prescriptions so they end up turning to heroin which is cheaper.