This podcast was in important and timely addition to the information & response needed to combat the scourge of opioid deaths ravaging our country for the last decades and made an even more critical issue by the introduction of fentanyl & fentanyl derivatives in the last few years. The guest, a father who lost his newly college- minted s…
This podcast was in important and timely addition to the information & response needed to combat the scourge of opioid deaths ravaging our country for the last decades and made an even more critical issue by the introduction of fentanyl & fentanyl derivatives in the last few years. The guest, a father who lost his newly college- minted son to fentanyl poisoning (cocaine laced with fentanyl) outlined a very cogent argument for a multi-pronged response to this crisis.
What utterly freaked me out was the comparison of the number of fentanyl deaths EVERY DAY to a plane-load of passengers on a typical flight: 200 people EVERY DAY dying of this scourge; the question being would we, as a country, really allow a plane full of passengers to die on a daily basis without making it a federal & state & local governmental priority to find and fix the cause(s) of these daily deaths? And yet, this is what we are allowing to happen. Fentanyl deaths are the leading cause of death in the 14-18 year old age group and opioids are the leading cause of death in all Americans under the age of 45. Why are we, as a society, not doing more? The stigma associated with drug use….still, in 2024. The understanding that drug use is a mental health disease and that harm reduction methodologies are critical to keeping people alive long enough to heal is a no- brainer. It doesn’t matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat… opioids are going to kill your child or your spouse or your parent no matter what political party they embrace. This is a truly national crisis I which we all must be invested.
This podcast was in important and timely addition to the information & response needed to combat the scourge of opioid deaths ravaging our country for the last decades and made an even more critical issue by the introduction of fentanyl & fentanyl derivatives in the last few years. The guest, a father who lost his newly college- minted son to fentanyl poisoning (cocaine laced with fentanyl) outlined a very cogent argument for a multi-pronged response to this crisis.
What utterly freaked me out was the comparison of the number of fentanyl deaths EVERY DAY to a plane-load of passengers on a typical flight: 200 people EVERY DAY dying of this scourge; the question being would we, as a country, really allow a plane full of passengers to die on a daily basis without making it a federal & state & local governmental priority to find and fix the cause(s) of these daily deaths? And yet, this is what we are allowing to happen. Fentanyl deaths are the leading cause of death in the 14-18 year old age group and opioids are the leading cause of death in all Americans under the age of 45. Why are we, as a society, not doing more? The stigma associated with drug use….still, in 2024. The understanding that drug use is a mental health disease and that harm reduction methodologies are critical to keeping people alive long enough to heal is a no- brainer. It doesn’t matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat… opioids are going to kill your child or your spouse or your parent no matter what political party they embrace. This is a truly national crisis I which we all must be invested.
327 people are shot everyday of which 117 die. We seem quite numbed to that. Why would fentanyl be any different?
Why should we be numbed to either? Your question is a non-starter.
Well, very little has happened on gun safety.