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Colorado is known nationwide for being very dismissive and being a state where illicit drugs are just part of the culture.
The legal mushrooms and marijuana they vote for has lead to massive numbers of drug addicted people to swarm the state and drug overdoses are skyrocketing.
Nebraska is a zero-tolerance state that loves old-fashioned, middle-American values which does not include encouraging illicit drug use.
209 people died of drug overdoses in 2018 in Denver with 700,000 people
The entire state of Nebraska had a total of 152 in 2017 and has 1.9 million people
Amazing, how Nebraska right next door has less than 1/3rd of the drug mortality rate of Colorado.
According to a new report, meth deaths are skyrocketing in Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
Get ready for stage 2 and 3 of the opiate crisis countrywide...and don't try to pin it on California where they have MANY less deaths then elsewhere.
I've listened to two podcasts lately live from KY where, the boonies, they've picked up THOUSANDS of needles from the side of the road. Thousands. Where there are no people to be seen. Everyone there knows it...not one doesn't admit it or blames it on liberals or Colorado or California. But here on CD??? Sick, IMHO......everyone knows the opiate story.
Corporate Love - and corporate free speech.
A medical field which is capitalist based - best cheap fix. A pill sure beats a rest or a massage....by 100X or more in price!
Hopelessness - because people are understanding the above. They don't mean a thing to the system....
War on Drugs - can't get pot legally in many places, opiates can be smuggled easier (once addicted by Big Pharma).
Continuing Capitalism - Pills are now priced as high as $60 or more for a single oxy (on the street). Capitalism jumps in and brings in a better supply of heroin and other similar stuff for 1/10th or less of the price.
The hateful political and divisive situation along with the growing equality in this country surely isn't helping the matter. A moral person is pretty much left thinking "well, I've sure been a stupid person not gaming the system like everyone else".
In other words, a nation of crooks and wanna-be crooks and crook defenders and crook enablers.
That you go - solve that problem!
Now, it's going to get worse. Because of this mess, they are now cracking down on scripts BIG TIME. I have the lightest opiates known to mankind in a joke dose and I had to sign all kinds of promises like I as a 9 year old. Now they have a whole profile on me and it's like school daze all over again.
Honestly - if there was an honest brown tar heroin dealer nearby I'd tell the medical system to buck off and just roll my own by making some hot tea with a couple mg dissolved in there. I am certainly not going to play their game for long.
I don't blame the doc, medical center, pharmacy, etc...they are under the gun and new laws have been passed. But I've never done well with authority and I certainly am not going to start now.
But, over the population as a whole, this isn't going to work out well because of the Fent. and other stuff that is going to take over due to low pricing. But this is exactly the path that addicts are being led down. Not only that, even people who aren't addicts will head that direction.
I noticed my doc set up a 3 month appointment round with me...which he never did before. He's a really nice guy so I didn't open my mouth but I sensed him thinking "yeah, this is foolish, but the state/fed/corp says I have to check out my opiate patients every 3 months".
This is for stuff that is of the strength available OTC in Canada...like a couple mg of Codeine with Tylenol. There is more opiate in Immodium......OTC and much more in many poppy seeds.
I know they mean well. But that's the problem with Pandoras Box - once Capitalism opened it up, there is no way to ever close it again. Mark my words. Opiates will not settle down like Cocaine did...because Coke was done for partying and never really worth the money and was only a short buzz anyway. It was a way to prove you could throw away money (until black folks started doing it, then it became evil crack).
You're not new here, this is a normal post by that person. Have you ever considered the ignore feature?
Never. I enjoy putting posters like this one in their place. I am viciously anti-prohibition, which makes me feel obligated to fight propaganda whenever and where ever I see it.
And get your information right. The Denver metro area has a population of 2,932,415, not 700,000. 19th biggest city in the USA.
Using your numbers, that means:
Nebraska rate of drug OD: .0125%
Denver Metro rate of OD: .0139%
You're claiming Nebraska's rate of OD death is 1/3 that of Denver. Hardly. Your spin is showing, OP....
Per the CDC link using 2017 as that is the most recent on the link,
Colorado drug poisoning death rate - 17.6%
Nebraska drug poisoning death rate - 8.1%
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