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A report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that opioid-related emergency room visits rose an average of 35 percent across 16 states between July of 2016 to September of 2017. The highest rise was seen in and around metropolitan areas, according to the Pekin Times.
Increases grew more in large urban centers, such as Chicago, where dealers have taken to cutting heroin with the highly dangerous drug fentanyl, the report said. The report did note that the statistics might be skewed because the study only looked into the hospital visits in 16 states. Still, the numbers are shocking.
While Illinois saw a hefty 66 percent increase, states around Illinois also saw the ratio jumped. Visits in Indiana rose by 35 percent, 28 percent in Ohio, and 21 percent in Missouri. But Wisconsin saw an incredible 109 percent jump in ER visits.
The study also found that opioid overdose rates rose 70 percent across the Midwest.
But, the soaring numbers were worse on the east coast where emergency room visits rose by 105 percent.
Emergency room visits grew by 81 percent in Pennsylvania and 105 percent in Delaware, but numbers actually fell in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Kentucky also saw a decrease, with the number of visits falling by 15 percent.
1. There used to be 'opiates' which are natural distilled products from poppies. The first is opium; then distilling that (extracting the active alkaloids) gives you morphine; and from that one creates heroin.
2. With 'OPIODS', same are usually (I believe) made from the ground up/from scratch from other basic/simple chemical sources/compounds. They are therefore 'artificial.')
3. The government has decided to start calling all of them 'Opiods'. This restriction of language is straight out of Orwell's playbook and no surprise.
4. The OPIOD that is causing all the problems is not the synthetic "oxycodone' (though the Drug warriors wish you to keep uninformed about that. The problem drug is the incredibly potent Fentanyl which is so strong, (like 40,000 X as strong as morphine or heroin... look it up). It is so strong, it is applied via patches, where only about 10 - 15% of the medication gets into your blood stream.
5. Then the little old ladies who need money sell their old skin patches for $ to locals who extract the remaining 85-90% and then mix it intowhat they claim is heroin, but fentanyl will cause respiratory depression far more easily per unit of 'getting high'(ness) so folks who are even super cautious are suffering respiratory failure when they shoot up 'Fentanyl' based (supposed) Heroin, which, as I recall, has far less dangers of OD than does Fentanyl...And yet 'OUR' DWEA (Drug War Execution Agency) still insists that Heroin has no valid medical uses while somehow, the far more deadly 'fentany' DOES.
You'll never learn the truths without some self research, as the MSM prints what 'our' AmeriKant 'Government orders it to.
R.C.