Oklahoma urges judge in historic opioid case to deliver $17.2 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson Researchers found that from 1999 through 2003, drug overdose death rates were higher in urban counties than in rural counties. Then, from 2004 through 2006, overdose mortality rates in rural and urban counties were similar. In 2007 through 2015, overdose mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in urban counties.
"The data demonstrate continued increases in mortality through 2017, and they underscore that the epidemic has had a profound impact in rural and urban areas alike," he added. Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined 5.1% in 2018, according to preliminary data released in July by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Researchers estimate there were 68,557 drug overdose deaths in 2018, and 47,590 involved opioids.
After a decade of Ilegal drug use, dealing, abuse, and 💀dead children, and According to the latest analysis elected Democrats are driving new legislation to legalize use of all addicting drugs with specific provisions for children.
Bullshit there's a war on drugs in the US alright and it's more than that bullshit war on natural resources.
This correlates to our cities losing the last remnants of manufacturing jobs. In a single generation success middle class people plunge into despair. Best place to start: vocational education to train people in the trades to fix their own infrastructure and draw back business
Pass Medicare for all and it’ll be a lot worse, instead of necessary surgeries government health care will put everyone on pain killers.
It’s almost like addiction isn’t discriminatory 🤷🏻♀️
Rural folks migrate to urban areas to do their druggin. MEDIA. AND EVERYBODY ELSE KNOWS IT.
The irony of life
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