COVID Vs Opioids: Is The Media Hyping The Wrong Killer?

[Bramblewild]

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“Between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people between 18 and 45 years old — 37,208 in 2020 and 41,587 in 2021 — died of fentanyl overdoses, the data analysis from opioid awareness organization Families Against Fentanyl shows.”

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On the other hand, more than 53,000 people between the ages of 18 and 49 succumbed to COVID-19 between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 15, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and the CDC’s age range for COVID deaths is broader by four years.

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As Newsbusters’ Curtis Houck explained, “covering this tragedy would require the liberal media to at least tread toward promoting border security and standing up to communist China.” He continued: “As opposed to the silence from ABC, CBS, and NBC, the Fox News Channel (FNC) has covered it over a dozen times.”

 

[Paulus59]

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“Between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people between 18 and 45 years old — 37,208 in 2020 and 41,587 in 2021 — died of fentanyl overdoses, the data analysis from opioid awareness organization Families Against Fentanyl shows.”

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On the other hand, more than 53,000 people between the ages of 18 and 49 succumbed to COVID-19 between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 15, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and the CDC’s age range for COVID deaths is broader by four years.

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As Newsbusters’ Curtis Houck explained, “covering this tragedy would require the liberal media to at least tread toward promoting border security and standing up to communist China.” He continued: “As opposed to the silence from ABC, CBS, and NBC, the Fox News Channel (FNC) has covered it over a dozen times.”

Yes, Fentanyl and other opioids are destroying so many young lives and have taken a back seat to Covid despite being just as bad if not worse. I even know of a young woman down here in Australia which died of a Fentanyl overdose. I hope the US government takes note of this and implements measures to deal with this massive problem.

 

[SkyWriting]

Any deaths are not so much news when they are voluntary. Yet still tragic.

 

[Kettriken]

Drug Overdoses Killed A Record Number Of Americans In 2020, Jumping By Nearly 30%
"Drug overdoses accounted for roughly one-quarter as many deaths as COVID-19 did in 2020, using the CDC's number of 375,000 pandemic deaths last year."

I really don't mean to discount the record number of drug overdoses in the last few years. Fentanyl is a dastardly killer.
However, it should be noted that links such as those in the OP give a vastly skewed perspective on how many are dying and of what. Yes, many are overdosing, more than in the past. No, total overdoses are not more prevalent than total covid deaths, by several degrees.

 

[Semper-Fi]

Another question

Who is more dangerous, the drug cartels or
the United States pharmaceutical industry?

Drug companies spends hundreds of millions on lobbying.
This influences lawmakers to weaken or to kill laws that will
reduce the flow of prescription opioids and massive profits.

U.S. Opioid Dispensing Rate
U.S. Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps | Drug Overdose | CDC Injury Center

Pharmaceutical companies, through dishonesty and downright greed, own
a lot of blame for current opioid crisis, not to mention our government.

How is the pharmaceutical industry making its inroads into the FDA?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/hazard/independent.htm

Nearly half the United States Food and Drug Administration budget comes
from “user fees” paid by companies seeking approval for their drugs.

The FDA started looking upon the industry as their client,
instead of the public and the public health. The FDA is also
getting away with no proper congressional oversight.
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The government also gives pharmaceutical companies billions
of dollars in research grants.
How The Covid-19 Vaccine Injected Billions Into Big Pharma—And Made Its Executives Very Rich
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U.S. Opioid Epidemic: Impact on Public Health and Review of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)

"35% of all opioid deaths involved prescription opioids"
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The fda approving drug products for market without proper safety review.

The Biopharmaceutical Industry Provides 75% Of
The FDA's Drug Review Budget. Is This A Problem?The Biopharmaceutical Industry Provides 75% Of The FDA's Drug Review Budget. Is This A Problem?
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The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
For doctors, more opioid prescriptions bring more money - CNN

Aggressive advertising to consumers they need to “see their doctor” and get
prescriptions for opioids. Then they charm doctors to endorse and prescribe
dangerous medications with a high potential for abuse and dependency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...29fd62-a73e-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html
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Many patients became addicted, especially to OxyContin, which became
one of the most abused pharmaceutical drugs in U.S. history
The Promotion and Marketing of OxyContin: Commercial Triumph, Public Health Tragedy
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The Opioid Crisis, Already Serious, Has Intensified During Coronavirus Pandemic
The Opioid Crisis, Already Serious, Has Intensified During Coronavirus Pandemic

The pandemic has destabilized people trying to maintain sobriety or
struggling with addiction, and created new addicts during a time of
increased social isolation and stress.


they “swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail”