By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-02 09:02:17 | Updated at 2024-10-03 13:17:39
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The 'horrific' reason fentanyl deaths are going down (running out of people to kill)
Daily Mail ^ | 10/01/24 | Emily Joshu
Posted on 10/02/2024 1:29:14 AM PDT by Libloather
Deaths from fentanyl appear to be going down for the first time in a decade after reaching astronomic levels - but experts warn there's a 'horrific' reason behind it.
They say the drug is simply running out of people to kill, after claiming the lives of around 320,000 Americans in the last decade.
Last year, around 75,000 people in the US were killed by the lethally potent drug, which was slightly down on the previous year and the first time deaths have fallen annually since 2011.
Dr Caleb Banta-Green, an addiction expert at the University of Washington, says King County, which includes Seattle, is like a microcosm for the rest of the country.
Deaths from fentanyl there plummeted nearly 10 percent at the end of 2023 compared to the last quarter - but Dr Banta-Green believes the outbreak is 'self-extinguishing'.
He told local news station KUOW: 'There are only so many people who are using a drug, and when it has that high of a lethality rate, it will eventually — in a really horrific way — start to self-extinguish itself like a forest fire.
'So, it's literally burning out the fuel. The horrible thing in this instance is the fuel is people.'
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: deaths; drugs; fentanyl; seattle
1 posted on 10/02/2024 1:29:14 AM PDT by Libloather
To: Libloather
The reason why alcohol was such a deadly addictive drug to early Indians, but not so much to Mediterranean people, was because the latter, over thousands of years of wine use, had bred out people most susceptible to alcohol addiction.
2 posted on 10/02/2024 1:48:13 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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