The opioid crisis has become a significant public health emergency for many Americans, especially for millennials, so much so that one out of every five deaths among young adults is related to opioids, suggested a new report.
The study is called “The Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in the United States,” published Friday in JAMA. Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, found that all opiate deaths — which accounts for natural opiates, semi-synthetic/ humanmade opioids, and fully synthetic/ humanmade opioids — have increased a mindboggling 292 percent from 2001 through 2016, with one in every 65 deaths related to opioids by 2016. Men represented 70 percent of all opioid-related deaths by 2016, and the number was astronomically higher for millennials (24 and 35 years of age).
According to the study, one out of every five deaths among millennials in the United States is related to opioids. In contrast, opioid-related deaths for the same cohort accounted for 4 percent of all deaths in 2001.
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Moreover, it gets worse; the second most impacted group was 15 to 24-year-olds, which suggests, the opioid epidemic is now ripping through Generation Z (born after 1995). In 2016, nearly 12.4 percent of all deaths in this age group were attributed to opioids.
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“Despite the amount of attention that has been placed on this public health issue, we are increasingly seeing the devastating impact that early loss of life from opioids is having across the United States,” said Dr. Tara Gomes, a scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s.
“In the absence of a multidisciplinary approach to this issue that combines access to treatment, harm reduction and education, this crisis will impact the U.S. for generations,” she added.
Over the 15-year period, more than 335,000 opioid-related deaths were recorded in the United States that met the study’s criteria. Researchers said this number is an increase of 345 percent from 9,489 in 2001 (33.3 deaths per million population) to 42, 245 in 2016 (130.7 deaths per million population).
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“By 2014, Canada and the United States had the highest per capita opioid consumption in the world and deaths related to opioid use have increased dramatically in both countries,” the study stated, which also said, “opioid-related death rates are increasing most quickly among adults aged 25 to 44 years in the United States. Consequently, the public health burden resulting from early loss of life is substantial.”
Drugs Involved in U.S. Overdose Deaths
National Overdose Deaths Involving Opioid Drugs
“These numbers show us the dramatic impact of opioid-related harms across all demographics in the U.S.,” said Dr. Tara Gomes, a scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s. “We know this is not an isolated public health issue – it is one that spans across North America.”
All in all, the opioid crisis is much worse than we imagined, as millennials are craving, not just avocados these days – but, vast amounts of opioids inducing a tidal wave of fatal overdoses.
I am nearly 70. I am stumped by this problem. Heroin addiction is a voluntary condition. In a full lifetime I have been a farrier, horse trainer, obtained degrees in biology, economics, and theology. I trained and ran a marathon at age 50. There is a menu for life that is infinite for those who dare take a deep drink. At present, I am nearly finished rebuilding a collection of 7 rental properties for retirement income. Life is for the living. It is a great and wonderful gift. Why in the hell do so many piss it away with drug/suicide???
Turd ,your pride is nauseous .This is the reason people like you spend eternity in Hell.
There are multiple reasons people get addicted to drugs.The short answer is Sin.
If you are in pain a good Herb to take is Kratom.It works similar to opioids as helping to ease pain but is not addicting.No one has ever OD on Kratom. It works but is more expensive.
https://www.narconon.org/drug-abuse/kratom-effects.html
Or we could be witnessing Operation Duck soup 2.
Just a thought.
I am sorry you read my comments as prideful. I can assure you, I have had my share of pain and failure. I was trying to say that every day of life is a gift and every day we are given can be embraced with choices to struggle to move ahead or choices to avoid the adventure. I have had 2 employees who were addicts. One died last year, the other is in a methadone program and doing well. Unlike my father who died of cancer at age 42, both of my employees chose heroin addiction. It really is a voluntary problem. That mystifies me.
Bring the hammer down. Or don’t. I bet we don’t.
Turlock,I agree with you to a degree that addicts are wasting their lives(that’s obvious!).I will say believe some suicidal but just cannot say hang themselves and so drown in alcohol/food/other drugs.I will also say though I do believe on the opioid end of this issue that many were prescribed improperly and to a point blame the med industry for this for this,they are very complicit in this.Yes,opioids do have a place in the pain relief spectrum and for a few perhaps needed for life unfortunately,my guess is for life less then 5% of the patients who are prescribed for ever it seems.
My mom was a doc at the VA and she along with many other docs tried to bring this to light and were for a long time rebuffed,finally seeing some alts that work to help with pain management without the addiction issues the opioids bring up,need this world wide.
I will say you know a addict that you care about the best you can do is lead them to meetings/perhaps a detox or other form of counseling.I will say though having lost a lot of people I know(alcohol in these cases)while trying to help if they want help and give em a
hand up be prepared for their death.
I would say before you call me holier than thou or what have you I also am addicted to a drug,in this case nicotine and to a smaller degree coffee. Slowing introducing nicotine substitutes and in the next couple of weeks have told those who know me to avoid me,gonna be ugly!
Just legalize the stuff, the solution to all drug problems is legalization.
Anon,while a whole heartedly agree with legalization and ending the drug/cop/court/prison cartels we will still be dealing with the addiction side of the coin,will be easier though.
I opposed this for 40 years. But that was my mistake. This medicalization and treatment is a joke. Let anyone who wants it buy it and pay for it either in money, flesh or early death. It is their choice. This talk of the need for more education sounds like a new approach to nurse more from the public udder and make a new set of government jobs.
Thousands of people a month would rather drug themselves to death than to go after the people who made their world so oppressive that they felt drugs were the only escape…
The Chinese had a large problem with opioid addiction until the communists took over. The commies took all the addicts out and shot them. That’s one solution. American government lacks any administrative efficacy or efficiency to implement such a solution.
What can one do when a grown up wants to self-destruct? For a teenager or child, it’s possible to straighten them out. But not an adult. Best to legalize drugs. Let addicts destroy themselves.
This problem started with the overprescription of opioids by the medical industry. For profit. With our government there every step of the way. Mexican cartels then moved in selling addicts a cheaper “solution.” From there it’s just kind of taking over.
Not quite correct.
More correct would be to say: China had an opium problem until the British fixed their foreign exchange problem (significantly by stealing tea and growing it in India and Ceylon). And not having much more money…
Quite similar in fact to the UK and the slave trade: they made tons exporting slaves to America, buying raw cotton from the South and shipping manufactured clothing all over the world.
They fixed the slave export problem by law decades after the slave supply basically dried up due to over-predation.
I had my hip replaced several months ago. It really wasn’t that painful. I took 500 mg Tylenol’s for about four days. They insisted I take home the 4 dozen percoset’s that was prescribed. Never took them.
Dutch,do as we do when not needed,save for yourself or a friend ect. when they really hurt say their back but do not need a doc trip but just one or two good nights sleep.We all(illegal,I am sure)save what we don’t need and pass on to someone if needed or say short term really do a number on ourself that tis very painful but does not require a doc trip.
Oh,and the part where it says on bottle do not mix with alcohol,tis merely a suggestion.I when broke me foot and tore tendons at work would have a pain killer with a few beers,slept like a (happy)baby!
We have a small ‘pharmacy’ at home.
Anon , that’s more bullshit .As much as I have read about Kratom it is safe.No one has ever OD on Kratom unless they are mixing some other drug with it. I don’t get high but it does ease my arthritis pain without having to take Advil.For now it’s a drug or product the government doesn’t control.This is the real reason for all the damn lies about Kratom.Plus it doesn’t show up on most drug test which is another reason the government wants to make Kratom illegal. Research other sites and learn the truth. Meathead.
Perhaps you should contact Narcotics Anonymous and inform them of their ignorance of drugs and drug abuse. After all, what would they know about it?
In any event, you brought on your last round of health problems (uninsured ones that you dumped paying for them on someone else) and might – stress “might”- have done so out of ignorance but this time you can’t claim that ignorance and will bear the full effect of your drug use without excuse when it catches up to you.
The watchman has given warning, it is up to you now.
Good for you. You’re one of the few who remember that BB The Moralizing Douchebag had others pick up the tab for at least one of his past surgeries. And then boasted about it. And now wags his finger at others here for not behaving like Christians or whatever.
As a mentor for my county, I’ve talked to many teens and young adults who have lost 5+ friends to overdoses of varying types and means. One guy in a treatment center said he had personally known 13 young people who died during his years of addiction.
Poor kids, man. When they’re not falling through the cracks, they’re smoking it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6pPLeXsd9A
I think I have that on vinyl…
You can’t protect people from themselves.
But you can protect the poppy fields for your overlords.
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“Nice crop young man, see you in Detroit!”
You can grow your own poppies(tis legal) and bleed em yourself(that part illegal).
You can also make a tea from the dried, ground poppy plant itself. Tastes awful but is fairly effective in providing some pain relief.
Or so I have heard.
335,00 fewer parasites to drain blood from society. It’s voluntary Eugenics.
I have no fucks to give for druggies. Why even bother trying to save them? If they want to kill themselves … let them. Give them all the drugs they want, as fast as they want them. The faster they die off, the better for everyone. And if they commit a crime in pursuit of getting their drugs … shoot them.
That’s why I can never get elected to Congress.
I might give an addict one chance at rehab (although I would prefer they pay for it themselves). I might give their children a chance at adoption if their parents were addicted (one guy I work with took in a kid from drug-addled parents). I might even give some cash towards developing non-addictive pain relief for major, chronic pain.
But I would execute convicted drug dealers (above the first, street-junky level) with no appeal past the first one; upon refusal of the first appeal, sentence of death by sundown without delay or pardon. The first street-junky level gets that one chance at rehab; then they face the same as the bigger dogs.
This would require new legislation: call it, “Murder of a soul through addiction Act”, defined as causing another human to become addicted by supplying the drug, penalty death as above.
If we quit being nice to the druglords we could kick this problem in a generation. Once it became known that selling drugs is an inevitable execution on second offense, how long would people keep dealing drugs?
Sorry James,am for legalizing it all and ending the cop/court/drug/prison cartels.I have no problem with not giving taxpayer monies to addicts but will not execute them,and in fact,would fight with violence those who did.legalize it all and if they choose to die,so be it,give a hand up to those who want out of the death spiral.
Portugal, Portugal, Portugal.
http://drugwarfacts.org/region/portugal
No fucking way do I trust our government to start executing people in job lots. Too many have been set up, framed and fucked by the police and DA’s.
Why not really incentivize it, and let the cops seize their property to… oh, wait thats already a done deal.
Deplorable lack of thought, James.
Anonymous ,fuck you dip shit .I didn’t dump my medical bills on anyone.I got a charity to pay for them but if I would have dumped them on anyone it would none of your damn business.Meathead.
Your ignoring all the real evidence ,so once again fuck off.
Getting a charity to pay for your bills is the very definition of dumping them on somebody else you fucking idiot.