I'm sorry bro... Best wishes to you and your family.

It's odd. I was in Hs in the later 1980s. Heroin was unheard of. It was weed and alcohol. In the same school decades later, opioids became a problem.

Tired of winning

Thank you China and Purdue Pharmaceutical/The Sackler family.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

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Data Source was Wikipedia and Tools used were Excel and Photoshop.

Not alive can also mean not yet born.

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I think you misunderstood the comment. In political science both "absolute majority" and "simple majority" are what you would commonly refer to as "majority".

The difference is that a simple majority is defined as 50%+1 vote of all votes cast, whereas an absolute majority is 50%+1 vote of all possible votes

Edited: I re-read the comment, he used the wrong term, and should've said plurality instead of simple majority. I hope this now makes sense now.

It's when they started cracking down on pharmaceuticals. As it turns out, it's a lot easier to not accidentally kill yourself when all the doses are the same, which is obviously not the case for illicit heroin (it could be with a safe supply initiative though*). This crisis has been made this deadly, make no mistake.

I think it was 2013 that 200% more Americans admitted to using heroin than the year before, and also the year the started taking them off the shelves in stores.

E: Anyone who wants narcan please click here (US only though I think; apologies)

The usual pathway is prescription opiods (oxycodone, hydrocodone, etc.) to heroin nasally, then often IV and/or to fentanyl though these days all the illicit stuff is fentanyl in various forms anyways, and passed off as something else.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=76967

Even though these domestic flights appear not to have changed that much, international airfares have become much more affordable. According to Nomad Wallet, in 1970, a return flight between New York and London was retailed for $550. With inflation, that's around $5,350 in today's money. With low-cost airlines abound, tickets between New York and London can range from $300 to $1,000 in economy.

https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/international-phone-calls-1965

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/09/20190930-sivak.html

Kinda harsh, but itll thin the herd. 🤷🏼‍♂️

People like this don't deserve an answer. I hope when he or his kids are stuck in the spiral of drugs, that he gets someone much more sympathetic than he clearly is, to save them.

Fentanyl-like deaths per Capita is about ready to pass gun deaths per Capita.

Y'know, all those people who died of COVID no longer use drugs. That's a win in my book.

edit: /s, because it seems like people didn't realize that?

I wonder what the charts look like up to today? I feel like there would be a significant spike in 2020

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"we should let people die." genius take.

I'm sure there's some very interesting correlative data involving economic and social hopelessness that exist.

Your solution is death?

So it looks like it went from ~3 people per 100k died from these three causes in 1999, to ~19 people per 100k in 2018. Not great!

Students (or their parents) with a GPA over 4.0 may think that is evidence that they are better than perfect. But faculty who grew up when 4.0 was the max see that and think their GPA must be completely bogus. So it can backfire.

also simply stop pumping people full of Narcan whenever they OD..

Based on the title this feels like it actually needs two images compared side by side.