NPR Exclusive: U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives

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Funny. If anything we are seeing increases. I am a sergeant in a narcotics unit. Still seeing our fair share of fatal overdoses, and a huge increase in non- fatal ones as well. While the availability narcan is mitigating the amount of people dying, we are still seeing a ton of overdoses from fentanyl.

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Yes I think the key point in the article that there are less fatal ones. Thanks for what you do out there.

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Yep, the key is less deaths. We still have to help solve the addiction/use problem.

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Drug cartels in Mexico supplied a lot of the Fentanyl in America, largely because of how cheap it is to make and distribute compared to other hard drugs.

Problem these cartels face is that the more they distribute this extremely terrible drug, the less of a customer base they will have.

The longer the drug has been on the streets, the more is known about how to maintain addictions while avoiding deaths.

While I think it’s great overdoses are declining, the opioid crisis is still really, really bad.

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We’ve been dealing with deadly drug addiction for what 50 years? They haven’t run out of customers yet.

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Cartels in Mexico really started hitting the gold in the 80s, with Cocaine, which isn’t as lethal as Fentanyl or Heroin. Cocaine, while addictive, is not going to disrupt their customer base

The reason Fentanyl has grown so much over the last decade is because it’s lab-created and very cheap to make. The downside is Fentanyl is very, very lethal, in fact some cartels are starting to stop selling it because it’s killing their customer base.

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Got a source for that?

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Mexican Sinaloa Cartel’s Message to Members: Stop Making Fentanyl or Die - WSJ

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Thanks I will read that later.

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If true, this is great news. That said, I’m pretty skeptical that it’s accurate. I served on a Harris County grand jury last fall and the number of fentanyl cases and deaths (murders) was shocking even as jaded as I am. The media does not communicate this adequately.

Take the time to have a no chitter, heart to heart talk with your kids. It will kill you in a literal heartbeat and, according to the drug case ADAs and the ~3000 cases we reviewed, it is in virtually every orally ingest-able drug available on the street. One of our friends 24 year old daughter died in a Kroger parking lot after taking 1 fake Xanax.

At 80,000 deaths per year is greater than the entire Vietnam war. Let that sink in.

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