I read this stupid AP story and it set off warning bells in my head. “ULTRA-POTENT HEROIN… MEXICAN DEALERS… $10 BAGS KILL UNSUSPECTING USERS INSTANTLY… NEEDLES STILL IN ARM AT THE DEATH SCENE!!!” OK, the caps and exclamation points are mine, but you get the idea. It’s a little strange because people who die from…
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Here’s a good example: The Netherlands has about 120 drug overdose deaths per year. This is a rate of 0.75 per 100,000. Meanwhile the US, with all our money and prisons and police and people who wish to “send the right message” has this problem: The mortality rates from unintentional drug overdose (not including alcohol)…
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A friend and former student of mine, a police officer on Long Island, tells me: “Right now heroin is cheaper then crack and cocaine. So it has become the drug of choice. From Jan 07 to Aug 07 there was 42 heroin overdose just in two precinct in Nassau county.” There are eight precincts in…
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In 2007, 235 Baltimore residents overdosed. The story in the Sunis here. Interestingly (and surprisingly), 74 of those were from methadone. I don’t quite understand the point of methadone. If it’s addictive and you can die from it, why not just give junkies heroin?