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TheInfernalVortex t1_j4vj9fs wrote

I find it interesting how common opioid deaths drop as heroin deaths spike in 2011.... after years of increasing "common opioid" deaths. Id guess people were switching over to heroin.

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Idreallyrathernot28 t1_j4vu2dt wrote

It's when they started cracking down on pharmaceuticals. As it turns out, it's a lot easier to not accidentally kill yourself when all the doses are the same, which is obviously not the case for illicit heroin (it could be with a safe supply initiative though*). This crisis has been made this deadly, make no mistake.

I think it was 2013 that 200% more Americans admitted to using heroin than the year before, and also the year the started taking them off the shelves in stores.

E: Anyone who wants narcan please click here (US only though I think; apologies)

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DocPsychosis t1_j4vtulp wrote

The usual pathway is prescription opiods (oxycodone, hydrocodone, etc.) to heroin nasally, then often IV and/or to fentanyl though these days all the illicit stuff is fentanyl in various forms anyways, and passed off as something else.

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WeAreAllinIt2WinIt t1_j4whzgp wrote

I mentioned this in another comment. I believe it is due Purdue reformulating oxy in 2010. The supplies of the old formula ran out and they had to turn somewhere.

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