Cocaine can induce psychosis, leading to delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and so on.
My grandparents in the 80s were brutally attacked and almost died from a man who had turned homicidal from his cocaine habit. They survived, but only just barely (both had their throats cut).
That being said, the actual number of incidents like that must be pretty rare. From what I can determine, overdose tends to be the greatest danger from cocaine use. Here is a chart from the CDC showing overdose deaths for various drugs going back to 1999.
It has been rising fairly steadily since about 2012, and in 2023 was almost to 30,000 deaths.
Of course, that’s a far cry from Noem’s ridiculous “hundreds of millions”, and who knows how many people would have had overdoses from just the amount of drugs destroyed in these sea attacks.
The head of Bayer’s research department reputedly coined the drug’s new name of “heroin”, based on the German heroisch which means “heroic, strong” (from the ancient Greek word “heros, ήρως”). Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, but their scientists discovered ways to make it, and Bayer led the commercialization of heroin.
That is an optical illusion, the heroin line just fell below the antidepressant line, which looks almost flat. The zero line is the fine grey line.
The strong drop in heroin deaths in recent years is interesting. I wonder if it’s that at this point pretty much all heroine is cut with fentanyl so it counts as a fentanyl death.
Look at the surging gray line that happens to surge around the time heroin is dropping. Yes, I would say that most of the current ODs from opioids are attributed to fentanyl since that is what folks are buying these days, no matter the labeling.
Edit to add: No guessing. The gray line is “primarily IMF”: Illicitly manufactured fentanyl. Reading glasses are useful at times
Also a bit of a disclaimer: It likely is quite possible to go into cardiac arrest with just snorting big fat lines for a long period. Just like with alcohol, you can die of alcohol poisoning (or even drinking too much water). If you have an 8-ball (1/8 oz) and are doing it all, to quote Steely Dan’s “The Royal Scam”
By the blackened wall he does it all
He thinks he’s died and gone to heaven
“I hear Colombia, the country of Colombia, is making cocaine. They have cocaine manufacturing plants, OK? And then they sell us their cocaine. We appreciate that very much.”
Argentina is good. And they have beef. And are getting $40 billion. Brazil can destroy their rain forests. I think Chile is shaped all wrong.
They should all be like Belize (pronounced wrong). Who doesn’t like Belize (pronounced wrong)?
And most people don’t know, none of them make syrup. Not the good Canadian syrup. And then there’s Ant..antre.. you know, the one south of Chile, which I don’t like. listens to aid Antarctica. With the Penguins.
Which manufacturers “Have long wanted to do”? Who was stopping them? Why did they need Trump’s “approval” to do this? The problem with tiny cars is that not enough people in North America wanted them. That’s finally changing, but it’s got nothing to do with Trump.
Is this shithead just doing an impromptu Friday blabber-conference? I am totally not watching yet this thread is going all over the place just like the guy who passed that man-woman-tv test.
Australia has lots of “kick the ball and score” sports.
They call American NFL “Gridiron” which is cool. Many take Super Bowl Monday off to watch it (summer-time)
“Soccer” as a name was (almost sure) originally British.
Not many people know this, but you’re not allowed to use your hands in Soccer. Only the goalie, who wears giant oven mitts.
The USA is hosting some of the World Cup with America’s hat and the filthy Mexicans. They can call it football, yet we’ll call it soccer. I have a bet with Putin, you know Vladimir Putin? His team won their first game (they got out of the group stage, which was unexpected. Then they beat Spain on penalties and lost to Croatia in the quarterfinals on penalty kicks. They kept Crimea) I bet him Ukraine that the USA will win it all,
