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by loveistheanswer 1855 days ago
What do you think causes increases/decreases in overdose deaths at scale?
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In recent years? The adulteration of heroin with cheap fentanyl out of China made it much more dangerous for users because the dosage become much more uneven and this invited overdoses, while the crackdown on Oxy supplies over the past four or five years has shifted a lot of addicts away from a pharmaceutical-grade source of opioids and over to the previously mentioned dangerous heroin.