[LMB] OT: Worries

[alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca]

While I have my doubts about William's stats, the opioid crisis, which is 
driven by the availability of fentanyl and the fact that many other drugs 
are contaminated by fentanyl, is EXTREMELY SERIOUS.

It is responsible for a very large number of deaths and has been 
exacerbated by the pandemic.

I've interviewed staff at a local community health centre and they told 
me that a lot of these deaths don't reach the public cobnsciousness 
because they're quiet and non-violent. People just don't wake up after an 
injection and aren't found in time to get Naloxone. It's tragic.

See Canadian stats:
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/opioids-stimulants/

In Canada: "1,720 apparent opioid toxicity deaths occurred between April 
and June 2021 (approximately 19 deaths per day), similar to the period 
from January to March 2021 (1,792 deaths), but representing a 2% increase 
compared to April to June 2020 (1,680 deaths) and a 66% increase compared 
to April to June 2019 (1,038 deaths)."

Also 
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/healthy-living/canada-opioid-crisis-fact-sheet.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53954964

Canada and US:

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/article/opioid_crisis.pdf
says The US has had more than 60,000 opioid-related deaths since 2013
and Canada has had more than 10,000 opioid-related deaths since 2016.

Alayne

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021, Joel Polowin wrote:

> WILLIAM A WENRICH <wawenri at msn.com> wrote:
>> As if we didn't have enough problems, this year the US border patrol has
>> seized enough fentanyl to kill 1/3 of the population of the world.
>
> Well, no.
> https://www.factcheck.org/2021/12/analyzing-republican-attacks-on-biden-for-increase-in-fentanyl-seized/
>
> William, I believe that you are capable of critical analysis.  And of
> checking what you're being told.  I wish you would do so.
>
> If that much fentanyl were around, the use of fentanyl would be *far*
> more visible in our society.  It wouldn't be a quiet "a few people here
> and there".
>
> Joel
>

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Alayne McGregor
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