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Friday, March 24, 2017 8:26:40 PM
Come ON people all over everywhere! .. Don't pay money for this death!
come ON! ... YOU know better than this! damnit'
And you're worried about Muslims, and Mexicans? Man! are you ever
naive/dumb/blind...sheesh WAKE UP! this is what is killing YOU!
A "Tidal Wave" of Overdoses is Filling Up This Morgue
And contrary to popular belief, it's not just white people who are dying.
Julia Lurie Mar. 24, 2017 6:00 AM
This week I'm spending time in Northeast Ohio, a corner of the country that has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic. I'm talking to people here about what the drugs have done to their communities. I'll be tweeting about what I'm seeing.
On a tree-lined street just blocks from the Cleveland Museum of Art sits an office building holding dozens of corpses. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office, home to the morgue, has never been this full. The spike in deaths comes from a swell in overdoses: With more than 600 overdose deaths last year, Cleveland and the surrounding suburbs have one of the highest overdose rates in the nation.
Sitting in an office full of sunlight, Dr. Thomas Gilson, the county medical examiner, looks disgusted. The year 2016, he tells me, "was just this tidal wave."
Fake OxyContin pills found by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office to be fentanyl. CCMEO
"It was just a few years ago when we started seeing very small amounts of fentanyl in with the heroin," said Eric Lavins, the lab supervisor. "Now we have cases where there’s fentanyl and no heroin whatsoever."
More and more, CCMEO forensic scientists are finding fentanyl analogs—slight molecular variations of fentanyl that can be even more potent but, because they are constantly changing, are not well regulated [ https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Press%20Release_Staff%20Reprot%20on%20Fentanyl.pdf ] in the United States or in China, where they are often manufactured. "It's a game of cat and mouse," explains Shannon.
Another trend: Increasingly, fentanyl is mixed with cocaine, which is particularly troubling because cocaine and opioids are traditionally used by different demographics. White Americans make up the bulk of heroin and painkiller users, while cocaine kills more African Americans. Many see this as a deliberate strategy to broaden the demand for opiates among the black population. "It's a business model," says Gilson. "It's another market."
Ultimately, the goal of the countless interviews and tests and data-wrangling is not only to trace the drugs back to their sources, but to prevent people from dying from them to begin with, explains Gilson. First responders, for example, need to know the prevalence of fentanyl in order to determine whether to administer multiple doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone. As he puts it, "One of the core missions of a place like this is to take information from the people who died and try to apply it to people who are at risk."
Go read this .. . JUST a little bit more! .. We've got to KEEP our friends and whoever we come into contact with away from this kind of American drug killing Americans and whoever else comes to visit us!
If you can't think of anything worth living here for then you need ..god I don't know what you need ! .. probably a good spanking! and a week at the beach! Jesus people! let's see how many people we can keep from taking this shit in their beautiful bodies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.. this so sucks!!!!
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/cleveland-medical-examiner-opioid-fentanyl-overdose
come ON! ... YOU know better than this! damnit'
And you're worried about Muslims, and Mexicans? Man! are you ever
naive/dumb/blind...sheesh WAKE UP! this is what is killing YOU!
A "Tidal Wave" of Overdoses is Filling Up This Morgue
And contrary to popular belief, it's not just white people who are dying.
Julia Lurie Mar. 24, 2017 6:00 AM
This week I'm spending time in Northeast Ohio, a corner of the country that has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic. I'm talking to people here about what the drugs have done to their communities. I'll be tweeting about what I'm seeing.
On a tree-lined street just blocks from the Cleveland Museum of Art sits an office building holding dozens of corpses. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office, home to the morgue, has never been this full. The spike in deaths comes from a swell in overdoses: With more than 600 overdose deaths last year, Cleveland and the surrounding suburbs have one of the highest overdose rates in the nation.
Sitting in an office full of sunlight, Dr. Thomas Gilson, the county medical examiner, looks disgusted. The year 2016, he tells me, "was just this tidal wave."
Fake OxyContin pills found by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office to be fentanyl. CCMEO
"It was just a few years ago when we started seeing very small amounts of fentanyl in with the heroin," said Eric Lavins, the lab supervisor. "Now we have cases where there’s fentanyl and no heroin whatsoever."
More and more, CCMEO forensic scientists are finding fentanyl analogs—slight molecular variations of fentanyl that can be even more potent but, because they are constantly changing, are not well regulated [ https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Press%20Release_Staff%20Reprot%20on%20Fentanyl.pdf ] in the United States or in China, where they are often manufactured. "It's a game of cat and mouse," explains Shannon.
Another trend: Increasingly, fentanyl is mixed with cocaine, which is particularly troubling because cocaine and opioids are traditionally used by different demographics. White Americans make up the bulk of heroin and painkiller users, while cocaine kills more African Americans. Many see this as a deliberate strategy to broaden the demand for opiates among the black population. "It's a business model," says Gilson. "It's another market."
Ultimately, the goal of the countless interviews and tests and data-wrangling is not only to trace the drugs back to their sources, but to prevent people from dying from them to begin with, explains Gilson. First responders, for example, need to know the prevalence of fentanyl in order to determine whether to administer multiple doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone. As he puts it, "One of the core missions of a place like this is to take information from the people who died and try to apply it to people who are at risk."
Go read this .. . JUST a little bit more! .. We've got to KEEP our friends and whoever we come into contact with away from this kind of American drug killing Americans and whoever else comes to visit us!
If you can't think of anything worth living here for then you need ..god I don't know what you need ! .. probably a good spanking! and a week at the beach! Jesus people! let's see how many people we can keep from taking this shit in their beautiful bodies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.. this so sucks!!!!
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/cleveland-medical-examiner-opioid-fentanyl-overdose
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