[image-1]The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office reported this week that 13 people died from opiate overdoses — heroin and fentanyl, or combination of both — between March 10 and March 14. Six of those deaths occurred in Cleveland.
Those deaths remain under investigation as of Friday.
Just last month, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson detailed a slight decrease in heroin overdose deaths in recent years, and a sharp increase in fentanyl-related deaths (tripling from 2014, “with 89 ruled cases, with 41 of those cases containing both heroin and fentanyl”).
“This is all the more alarming because this is a much more lethal drug, being dressed up as another popular drug abused by the same population,” Gilson said, with an office spokesperson adding that fentanyl deaths in January 2016 led to one of the “largest death toll[s] ever recorded in a single month in the county.”
This article appears in Mar 16-22, 2016.
Places like walmart sell syringes with no prescription or ID. This has got to stop
Wouldn’t it be better for people to use CLEAN syringes than dirty ones? They’re going to find them and use them no matter what. Why make HIV/AIDS more rampant? Why don’t the doctors stop over prescribing opiates and the like? Right?
Yeah sounds good let’s start an AIDS epidemic get the fuck out of here with that shot drugmart does the same thing and thank God they do cause of someone is sick they don’t care what kind of needle they use as long as it makes them feel better rant over
Do those people not realize this has nothing to do with needles…don’t sleep or share anything with a junkie..gence at least it stays within those who use..its their own fault for sure…. Besides this article is about the overdoses not the sharing needles. You can snort it too.
Here are the questions no one is asking.
Who is the world’s leading producer of heroin? Afghanistan
Who controls the poppy fields in Afghanistan? The US Military
How does so much heroin get into the US? CIA Planes
Why is the CIA bringing heroin to the US? To sell on the streets to fund black ops (see Iran-Contra Scandal)
Cracked the case for you. If you want to stop the influx of heroin into the country you need to stop it at its source and not with street-level nobodies.
People want to blame gun manufacturers for gun deaths, but you never hear anyone talk about blaming the manufacturers of fentanyl for fentanyl deaths.
Please don’t call them junkies they are people who have a diasesge . Im in recovery im not proud of my past but I’m proof people change!! And keeping them from getting clean needles isn’t a good idea. They need help and therapy. This is about people dying you wouldn’t feel this way if it were someone who you love. It’s sad this is happening. May you all find rest and peace in Gods Kingdom your struggle is no more .