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- upliftingnews@lemmy.world
There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.
An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023.
The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics.
I saw an interview on YouTube of a heroin addict in Seattle, I believe. He talked about how he ended up on the streets from his addiction and talks about how it was when fent first arrived. People ODing left and right and the only people that survived where the ones with a super high tolerance. That was the first wave.
How, once word got out that certain dealers had good shit that was killing ppl, everyone was looking for it. Once again killing more. Second wave.
I don’t remember the rest of the interview. Something about how now regular heroin won’t do for the survivors, has created super high tolerance junkies who now need fent or they go through withdrawals. The biggest takeaway for me though was that he was clearly a smart person and very aware of his situation. He would like to quit, but was unable to. He then thanks the interviewer and crew for hearing him out and just walks into a dark alley.
Could quit with Suboxone if he really wanted to. I didn’t see the interview, but seems like maybe he doesn’t want to.
“This will literally kill you”
“That’s metal as fuck bro sign me up”