Most-Drugged Cities in the US

[steatopygia]

I should have said that in addition to physicians being told that narcotics were less addicting than they had believed, standards of care for pain were changing, with treating ANY pain aggressively, being emphasized throughout the healthcare industry.

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@stillownedbysetters

Interesting that no cities in the legal Marijuana states made the list. Makes the theory that Marijuana leads to other, more dangerous drugs look a bit shaky.

I had heard that opiods were an enormous problem in WV. Apparently cash-strapped families get the script in order to sell the pills. Prices for generic opiods with any kind of insurance coverage is low, so a low income family can usually afford to purchase them and make a significant profit selling them on the black market. Physicians know this and are quietly complicit.

Portland, Maine is #4 on the list. Maine legalized marijuana in the 2016 election, and Portland legalized it in the city several years before.

[Chimera]

Ok that ‘cumulative 90-day supply over 5 years’ is just plain bullshit as any measure of drug addiction, because that is 5% of the total period given.

I would fit into that profile, having had surgery and several major back issues over the last 5 years. But I’ve never tried heroin or meth and have zero interest in ever doing so. I’ve never purchased illegal opioids and won’t ever be doing that either.

So clickbait from a questionable resource, making questionable (read: bullshit) claims.

Baltimore is a city of 620,000. The claim that there are 62,000 heroin addicts there is ludicrous on the face of it.

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@thelurkinghorror

Sounds like a statistical coincidence. There arent enough marijuana states to draw a conclusion.

There was a recent study that showed that fatal opioid-overdoses were significantly lower in states with medical marijuana.

[Chimera]

Yup, from that article, on a site that has zero reason to sugar coat drug addiction;

*Getting Down to the Numbers

Researchers looked at medical marijuana laws and death certificate data in all 50 states between the years of 1999 and 2010. During that time, only 13 states had medical marijuana laws in place. Researchers quickly noticed that the rates of fatal opioid overdoses were significantly lower in states that had legalized medical marijuana.** In 2010 alone, states with legalized medical marijuana saw approximately 1,700 fewer opiate-related overdose deaths.**

“We found there was about a 25 percent lower rate of prescription painkiller overdose deaths on average after implementation of a medical marijuana law,” lead study author Dr. Marcus Bachhuber said.
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@running_coach

I’ve seen Modesto called the meth capitol. Or Methdesto if you prefer.

Various cities and areas received that appellation, before Mexico took over production, but usually it was applied anecdotally and locally, using differing metrics.