The US Opioid Crisis

[BmorePat87]

(08-09-2017, 10:22 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Can someone show me where all this starts with LEGAL prescriptions?  I was just reading a story on Middletown, OH which is apparently just being destroyed by heroin, and these people didn't get there because they became hooked on legal prescriptions, and switched to heroin.  

As an aside, one guy in the story who has now been clean for a couple of months ODed 8 times in seven days and was revived with Narcan.  Once a day plus one.  That's nuts.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/relationship-between-prescription-drug-heroin-abuse/prescription-opioid-use-risk-factor-heroin-use

This is where my numbers came from.

Between 2002-2012, 80% of people seeking treatment for heroin abuse reported that they first started by using prescription drugs.