Fentanyl-related deaths in the US have exceeded 70,000 annually, with synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) driving the surge in overall drug overdoses. Recent data estimates over 73,000+ fentanyl-involved fatalities in 2022, and though totals fluctuated, fentanyl remained the primary cause of the over 100,000 annual overdose deaths.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/16178)
I wonder if doctors in China/India have more scruples about prescribing opiates. Here in the U.S. they give them to you for just about any amount of pain, weather you asked for them or not. They have given me opiates after I specifically told them I won’t take them because of the side effects. The treatment of pain here in the U.S. is stuck in the 1950s.
Fentanyl-related deaths in the US have exceeded 70,000 annually, with synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) driving the surge in overall drug overdoses. Recent data estimates over 73,000+ fentanyl-involved fatalities in 2022, and though totals fluctuated, fentanyl remained the primary cause of the over 100,000 annual overdose deaths. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/16178)
I wonder if doctors in China/India have more scruples about prescribing opiates. Here in the U.S. they give them to you for just about any amount of pain, weather you asked for them or not. They have given me opiates after I specifically told them I won’t take them because of the side effects. The treatment of pain here in the U.S. is stuck in the 1950s.
Lol meanwhile when I got stuck by stingrays (twice!) all they would give me is a bucket of hot water.