Is the rise in fentanyl deaths due to people having a harder time getting correctly-dosed prescription opioids, or another reason?
why the rise in fentanyl popularity? Because it’s harder to obtain alternates, or some other reason?
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Because you can substitute it for heroin & it's much easier to transport because you need so much less of it
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It's the common story of crackdowns causing black market supply networks to move to the more potent options which are easier to smuggle
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Overall opiod prescription rates up 4X since 1999, but fentanyl overdose rate doesn't seem correlated w/ prescription rates (1/2)
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It seems opioid abuse overall correlates w/ availability, but fentanyl is classic story of stronger illicits dominating (2/2)
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or, what
@oshepherd said. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/fentanyl.html … (2015 data) -
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also, fentanyl is much easier to synthesize from unscheduled substances.
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