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Drug overdose deaths among adolescents on the rise

2022-05-02

[FoxNews] According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, deadly overdoses among adolescents nearly doubled from 492 in 2019 to 954 in 2020. They jumped another 20% in 2021.

George Youngblood, who has worked with Teen and Family Services in Houston, said the COVID-19 pandemic affected hundreds of children across the country in the same way that it did Lydia.

"The more we isolated our kids without being able to do all the social-emotional learning that they needed to do, I think that the mental health crisis became so acute. They experienced anxiety and depression," Youngblood said.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has found that drugs are becoming deadlier.

"There has been a huge rise in illicitly manufactured prescription pills that contain fentanyl, at least 30% of which have doses that can kill someone," the institute's director, Dr. Nora D. Volkow, said. "We believe this may be one of the factors that’s putting teenagers at a higher risk for overdose mortality."

I seem to recall that fentanyl comes from China...

Last year, the El Paso sector of Customs and Border Protection alone seized more than six times the amount of fentanyl it did in 2018.

Last week, President Biden released the first National Drug Control Strategy focused on untreated addiction and drug trafficking. Federal officials said about two-thirds of drug overdoses over the last year were related to fentanyl.

Posted by:Skidmark

#6 Fatal dose fentanyl is about 2 mg

Trade goods for your bugout bag.

Posted by: Skidmark 2022-05-02 14:00

#5 When the dope boys on Hollowell in Atlanta told me they stopped selling certain things because so many people were dying I wisened up.

Posted by: Chris 2022-05-02 12:04

#4 The thing about fentanyl is that the peddlers put it in everything they sell now. Even high-tolerance, careful users are in for a nasty surprise when they least expect it.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-02 10:59

#3 I am always happy to learn better facts. :-) Thank you, Glalet Slaiger2825.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-05-02 10:56

#2 Fatal dose fentanyl is about 2 mg

Posted by: Glalet Slaiger2825 2022-05-02 00:24

#1 "Presently, Mexico is the largest source of illegally manufactured fentanyl entering the United States.". See https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP68838.html

Posted by: Glalet Slaiger2825 2022-05-02 00:22

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