Crack cocaine was the thing in Muncie when I was arrested back in 2010 bur opioids were starting to make inroads. Now I hear the drugs swamping Muncie are meth and heroin.
Overdose deaths continued to rise in 2021, reaching historic highs came to me via NPR.
And more than 71,000 of all opioid related deaths involved illegally manufactured fentanyl, which in recent years has been mixed in with a range of illicit drugs.
"These past three years we have seen an increase of contamination of other illicit drugs with fentanyl, be it cocaine, be methamphetamine, and more recently, illicit prescription drugs," says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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However, a lot more needs to happen to address the scale of the problem, she adds. There are currently just "two legally operating above-the-ground harm reduction overdose prevention centers in the country," at a time when communities across the country need them, she says.
And this is the country that wants to be pro-life?
sch 5/14/22
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