Opioid ODs skyrocketing. There are many deaths on the other side of the equation too.

[MarathonMike]

Contrary to the overly simplistic beliefs of the lockdown contingent, there are many Americans dying BECAUSE OF the lockdown. Overdoses, delayed medical procedures, suicides, domestic violence have all contributed to a terrible death toll that is being ignored. On the other side we have Covid-19 deaths being tallied in excruciating detail. It is wrong and dangerous to live in a binary world where the only deaths that matter are Covid-19 deaths.

'Opioid overdoses are skyrocketing': as Covid-19 sweeps across US an old epidemic returns

The pandemic is creating the social conditions – no jobs, isolation, despair – that helped enable the opioid crisis to emerge in the first place. Now it’s back

www.theguardian.com

 

[L.K.Eder]

Contrary to the overly simplistic beliefs of the lockdown contingent, there are many Americans dying BECAUSE OF the lockdown. Overdoses, delayed medical procedures, suicides, domestic violence have all contributed to a terrible death toll that is being ignored. On the other side we have Covid-19 deaths being tallied in excruciating detail. It is wrong and dangerous to live in a binary world where the only deaths that matter are Covid-19 deaths.

'Opioid overdoses are skyrocketing': as Covid-19 sweeps across US an old epidemic returns

The pandemic is creating the social conditions – no jobs, isolation, despair – that helped enable the opioid crisis to emerge in the first place. Now it’s back

www.theguardian.com

Jared is in charge of managing the opioid crisis. WINNING

 

[Rambunctious]

Bad Chinese drugs...China is in a full scale attack on the free world and we are stuck...incapable of moving....very upsetting to watch China get away with cold blooded murder....

 

[fncceo]

Shhhh ... they're COVID deaths now.

 

[Shawnee_b]

Prescription opiods are 14% of the deaths. Street opiods with fentanyl and heroin account for 86%