CDC : Opioid epidemic is getting worse

When investigators sent counterfeit pills seized after the Sacramento poisonings for testing at the University of California, they found a wide disparity in the amount of fentanyl each contained. Some pills had as little as 0.6mg. Others were stuffed with 6.9mg of the drug, which would almost certainly be fatal.

The DEA thinks the difference was probably the result of failing to mix the ingredients properly with other powders, which resulted in the fentanyl being distributed unevenly within a single batch of counterfeit pills.

#roulette_russe

Pour une fois il semble que les Russes n’y sont pour rien : on nous parle ici de consommateurs et dealers US, trafiquants mexicains et chimistes chinois.

Et sinon je n’ai pas vu de source pour le titre ("thousands", c’est le nombre de morts du 9/11 donc quand même assez grave…)

C’est un communiqué du CDC de la semaine dernière, pas mal repris dans la presse, p. ex.

CDC : Opioid epidemic is getting worse | Washington Examiner
▻http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cdc-opioid-epidemic-is-getting-worse/article/2609280

The number of deaths from prescription and illicit opioids sharply rose in 2015, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The epidemic of deaths involving opioids continues to worsen,” said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden. “Prescription opioid misuse and use of heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl are intertwined and deeply troubling problems.”

A total of 33,091 people died from opioid overdose in the U.S. last year, passing 30,000 for the first time. A little more than half of those deaths involved prescription opioids, although death from prescription drugs rose only 4 percent.

ou ici
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/550416

(pas encore trouvé l’info sur le site du CDC, mais pas beaucoup cherché non plus)

La Stat of the day du 8 décembre (et le 12 nous sommes toujours le même jour, semble-t-il) en parlait. Mais le tableau pointé ▻http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db190_table.pdf donne les chiffres de 2000 à 2013 pour les décès par overdose d’opioïdes et d’héroïne

NCHS Pressroom - Homepage
▻http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/default.htm

Deaths from heroin overdoses in the U.S. have more than quadrupled since 2000.

Annoncé pour le 20/12,
NCHS Pressroom - Upcoming Releases
▻http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/upcoming.htm

Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths, 2010-2014
National Vital Statistics Reports (December 20, 2016)

donc toujours pas de chiffres 2015.

9 morts en une journée à Vancouver
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fentanyl-crisis-up-to-9-drug-overdose-deaths-in-vancouver-last-night-1.3900437