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Other than with respect to close friends and relatives, NOBODY CARES when some stranger dies of an overdose. While it would be indelicate to suggest that such deaths weed out the gene pool, that's part of the thinking.
THE ONLY THING that concerns random people is whether the addict is committing crimes to support the addiction. By and large, "Black" addicts are more inclined to this sort of anti-social behavior - perhaps because the don't have the resources "in house" to satisfy the need until something can be done about it.
So the "need" to classify a "white" death as an overdose is less urgent.
The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
They should make heroin illegal.
I think we should give it to the addicts free, they could sign an agreement that when they OD no medical assistance will be rendered. Could save hundreds of millions of dollars and take a huge burden off of the Health care system. It would also reduce crime, Addicts wouldn't have to rob and steal to pay for it. Then pretty soon Shazaam No more addicts left, Brilliant We could redistribute the drugs confiscated coming in illegally and cripple the illegal Market.
He's projecting:The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
I'm not seeing anything about intentional underreporting nor whites (or any specific races).
They should make heroin illegal.
The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
Your assumption that the researchers, or the various coroners are all white, seems very unlikely, and racist.
what we think is youre a racistSo you honestly think that Heroin is a major problem in the black and/or other minority communities?Is there something we are missing? The article doesn’t mention any race at all. Unless there is more to the story, I have no idea. With what you provided it seems you are just trolling.
"Whites Admit they've been Intentionally Underreporting their Heroin Overdose Rates"The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
Your assumption that the researchers, or the various coroners are all white, seems very unlikely, and racist.
So you honestly think that Heroin is a major problem in the black and/or other minority communities?Is there something we are missing? The article doesn’t mention any race at all. Unless there is more to the story, I have no idea. With what you provided it seems you are just trolling.
The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
So you honestly think that Heroin is a major problem in the black and/or other minority communities?Is there something we are missing? The article doesn’t mention any race at all. Unless there is more to the story, I have no idea. With what you provided it seems you are just trolling.
The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
Your assumption that the researchers, or the various coroners are all white, seems very unlikely, and racist.
Maybe democrats made them do it -- like democrats make 95% of researchers lie and say that climate change is happening due to man-made pollution....
Apparently blacks are immune to the effects of heroin or they just never ever use the stuff.So you honestly think that Heroin is a major problem in the black and/or other minority communities?
Here's the TRUTH.The statistics around opioid overdose deaths are staggering. More than 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016 alone, according to recent federal estimates, and fatal overdose rates continue to rise across nearly every segment of the population. Among young adults, these drugs accounted for about 20% of all deaths in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But a new study says that even those figures don’t capture the full extent of the opioid crisis.
In a paper published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, researchers find that as many as 70,000 opioid overdose deaths were unreported or misclassified between 1999 and 2015 because of the way drug overdoses are coded on death certificates.
Causes of death are listed on death certificates using codes determined by the National Center for Health Statistics. Some of these codes denote specific narcotics involved in a fatal drug overdose, but a code also exists for “other and unspecified narcotics.” Of the more than 438,600 unintentional overdose deaths included in the new study’s analysis, roughly 255,500 were coded as opioid-related, approximately 85,600 were coded as non-opioid-related and about 97,100 were coded as unspecified.
The researchers hypothesized that many of these other-coded deaths were actually attributable opioids. Assuming that this proportion would be roughly equal to the proportion of all overdoses involving opioids, they worked to reallocate some of the generally coded fatalities.
In all, they estimated that roughly 70,000 unspecified deaths should have been marked as opioid-related. :disdain Under this new classification, the number of deaths that would be reallocated to involve opioids ranged from just nine in Vermont to more than 11,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the study.
The researchers also uncovered discrepancies in the way states code and report overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi, for example, the drugs involved in more than 35% of all overdose deaths were unspecified. Washington, D.C., meanwhile, used specific drug codes for all of its overdose deaths, and 17 states did so in at least 95% of cases. Areas that relied on state medical examiners to determine causes of death tended to specify drugs far more frequently than states using county coroners or hybrid systems, the researchers found.
Underreporting fatal opioid overdoses may both downplay the severity of the opioid epidemic and impede efforts to curtail it, the authors write. “Proper allocation of resources for the opioid epidemic depends on understanding the magnitude of the problem,” the paper says, “and incomplete death certificate reporting prevents lawmakers, treatment specialists, and public health officials from doing so.”
Pretty bad when your title brings up race and your article doesn't.
Major fail.
