• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      26 days ago

      There’s been some clean stuff recently tested at DrugsData, legitimately just heroin. Bought from a darknet vendor in Canada. I imagine that’s INSANELY rare.

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        25 days ago

        I just did some very light research and did find this graph.

        Appears to depict H becoming safer and safer over time. The deaths from heroin are about what they were from methadone 20 years ago. (Ignoring all methodological issues in determining “cause of death”.)

        I expect this is basically due to how impossible heroin is to get, perhaps the only users left over are those with the ability to obtain a very good supply. Whereas 95% people are stuck with the other stuff.

        source: US CDC & Dept of HHS NCHS Data Brief: “Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2002–2022” Number 491, March 2024

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            25 days ago

            Ya it’s always a re-shock to see how dramatic things are. that graph is based on this chart

            death from any opiod - total:

            • 2002: 11,920
            • 2022: 81,806

            death from Synthetic opioids other than methadone:

            • 2002: 1,295
            • 2022: 73,838

            nice work FDA