One friend commenting on facebook thought that perhaps the supply was being diluted due to increasing costs (that darn inflation!) so I went looking for something like that....
.... but then while searching for something there, I came across this:
"since the start of 2024, China has become more active in suppressing the flow of precursor chemicals, and Mexican cartels, perhaps purposefully, are now trafficking a less lethal version of fentanyl."
Ah, perhaps the dealers are finally learning how not to kill the customers. What an idea!
I looked at more states/locales than the ones above -- one odd looking one was Hawaii... just up, up, up. Similar to Nevada. I think the tourist-heavy places probably just have increases.
And yet, NYC saw very little increae in drug OD deaths in spring 2020…amidst a massive increase home deaths (largely, falsely, curiously attributed to heart-related (MASSIVE and bizarre OHCA cardiac arrest event) and “COVID.’
One of my veterinarian friends (when I wrote about the Michele Trachenberg official Cause of Death due to toxicology results, but no autopsy) was complaining about low autopsy/examination rates in general.
There is a lot involved in full autopsies, and usually a lot less than that is done, even if you, as surviving family, want one done. One was done for my father because he died very young (age 38) of a heart attack. But in most cases, people are old, and they don't bother. And even if someone is young, if they think the cause is clear (or tox results are clear), they don't do it.
One friend commenting on facebook thought that perhaps the supply was being diluted due to increasing costs (that darn inflation!) so I went looking for something like that....
.... but then while searching for something there, I came across this:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-fentanyl-crisis-from-naloxone-to-tariffs/
"since the start of 2024, China has become more active in suppressing the flow of precursor chemicals, and Mexican cartels, perhaps purposefully, are now trafficking a less lethal version of fentanyl."
Ah, perhaps the dealers are finally learning how not to kill the customers. What an idea!
Can't tell you how *shocked* I am by New York City! 🤣
I looked at more states/locales than the ones above -- one odd looking one was Hawaii... just up, up, up. Similar to Nevada. I think the tourist-heavy places probably just have increases.
And yet, NYC saw very little increae in drug OD deaths in spring 2020…amidst a massive increase home deaths (largely, falsely, curiously attributed to heart-related (MASSIVE and bizarre OHCA cardiac arrest event) and “COVID.’
Meanwhile, autopsies plummeted…
I think I will be looking more at the autopsy stat, FWIW - but I have to see what I can get here
https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/disturbing-federal-data-on-autopsies?utm_source=publication-search
One of my veterinarian friends (when I wrote about the Michele Trachenberg official Cause of Death due to toxicology results, but no autopsy) was complaining about low autopsy/examination rates in general.
There is a lot involved in full autopsies, and usually a lot less than that is done, even if you, as surviving family, want one done. One was done for my father because he died very young (age 38) of a heart attack. But in most cases, people are old, and they don't bother. And even if someone is young, if they think the cause is clear (or tox results are clear), they don't do it.