Drug overdose in 2020 - huge increase...

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

Should have locked down harder....

While ER visits were down last year, drug overdoses increased amid pandemic

Experts say anxiety, stress, depression and isolation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic caused many people to relapse into substance abuse.

www.dispatch.com

 

[Autoprax]

People take drugs when they are stressed.

I think it's a mistake to blame it on the lock down.

Though lockdowns are stressful.

Pandemics are stressful. There is no getting around this. I guess magic would help.

I know that many here disagree with this opinion and I just want say, you are wrong and stupid.

 

[Driftcoast]

Should have locked down harder....

While ER visits were down last year, drug overdoses increased amid pandemic

Experts say anxiety, stress, depression and isolation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic caused many people to relapse into substance abuse.

www.dispatch.com

 

[Northern_Shores]

All the losers in the mental health thread woulda been done even without The Plague to push them over the edge.

 

[Autoprax]

I've tried to keep up with my drug addict friends but I am a lightweight.

I really tried.

 

[laidback]

The government forcing doctors treating legitimate pain patients to cut off meds has people looking for alternatives, resulting in overdoses..... some accidental some not

 

[mundus]

The government forcing doctors treating legitimate pain patients to cut off meds has people looking for alternatives, resulting in overdoses..... some accidental some not

We go from handing them out like candy to refusing legit patients and everyone else, America just cannot do nuance.

 

[Ifallalot]

Should have locked down harder....

While ER visits were down last year, drug overdoses increased amid pandemic

Experts say anxiety, stress, depression and isolation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic caused many people to relapse into substance abuse.

www.dispatch.com

IF IT SAVES ONE LYFE

 

[Ifallalot]

The government forcing doctors treating legitimate pain patients to cut off meds has people looking for alternatives, resulting in overdoses..... some accidental some not

That's addiction, regardless of whether there is actual pain or not

 

[test_article]

...America just cannot do nuance.

I think the USA comes by it honestly.



Music for Eagle gliding the cliffs.

 

[Autoprax]

I thought you guys thought experts were stupid?

Fentanyl is affecting those #.

It's really hard to die from prescription opiates.

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

IF IT SAVES ONE LYFE

#somelivesmatter