I went to school 2006 to 2010 and prescription opioids were huge. Shortly after that is when people started taking heroin as they sort of made it gradually harder to get the prescription stuff. Then obviously these last years it's all turned to fent. I'm actually surprised heroin and "common opiates" (whatever than means) haven't dropped more with the recent fentanyl scourge. I have met like 4 people in the last 2 months that died and were brought back to life from naloxone and continued using the shit. One snorted a whole 50 bag he thought was cocaine and ended up ODing in a parking lot. That guy is definitely not a fan, the rest were IV junkies.

>Hs in the later 1980s. Heroin was unheard of.

Heroin has been a popular drug in the US since the 1800s. The heroin overdose spike in the 2010 is from synthetic opioids. Synthetic opioids like fent weren't being pulled into there own column until 2014 and I don't believe it was in full until later.

The CDC isn't classifying data in a way people are using it. The groups are non exclusive. If you OD while on heroin, fent and vicodin you land in all 3 groups.

https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/data/analysis-resources.html

>Given the surge in availability of IMF starting in 2013, the CDC Injury Center began analyzing synthetic opioids (other than methadone) separately from other prescription opioids for 2014 mortality data. This analysis provides a more detailed understanding of the increase in different categories of opioid deaths.