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New Overdose Wave in Sacramento

March 29, 2016 By Melissa Gansler Leave a Comment

"Fentanyl formula"

Fentanyl is 30 times more potent than heroin, but people are mixing them for a stronger result.

(Mirror Daily, United States) – According to the Health Officer at the County Public of Sacramento, there is a new overdose wave in Sacramento that has already killed five people and hospitalized an additional fifteen in only a week.

Olivia Kasiyre, the Health Officer at the County Public of Sacramento, declared in a news release that a new drug, fentanyl, is wreaking havoc among the inhabitants of the county.

According to Kasiyre, there were five deaths last week related to the new painkiller and fifteen more people are being currently hospitalized for an overdose.

She continues her official statement saying that the investigators believe that the affected patients either bought the narcotic substance off the street, or they got it from neighbors, friends or family members.

The cases are from both South and North Sacramento so the area on which the drug spread is pretty large.

Furthermore, Kasiyre stated that in at least a number of cases the fentanyl pill was contaminated. The officials that are running the investigation are not sure about the form in which the drug is being spread among the people that are consuming it.

The last official information that Kasiyre gave was the fact that doctors believe that the affected individuals took one or two tablets. The quantity was enough to cause an overdose that hospitalized fifteen people and killed five more.

At the end of her public statement, the health officer warns all Sacramento citizens to stay away from the tablets due to their volatility and danger risk.

But fentanyl is not a new drug. The opioid based analgesic was fist created in 1959 as a pain management solution. But the analgesic is believed to be thirty times more potent than heroin.

Lately recreational users started taking the potent analgesic, and the results are devastating. Sacramento is not the only town that has been hit by a wave of overdosed patients.

In Ohio, at least, twenty-two people died after taking a tablet of fentanyl this month. And according to the emergency department director at Cleveland’s St. Vincent Medical Center, Carla O’Day, the overdoses are not only boosting in numbers but also in severity.

The surprise came after the CDC managed to put together all of the information it collected about the new overdose wave in Sacramento, Ohio and Cleveland and it discovered that the average users are far from the usual stereotype.

It seems that educated, white, suburban men are falling prey to the dangers of fentanyl.

Image source: Wikimedia

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: cocaine, Death, drug overdose, fentanyl, heroine, killed by overdose, new drug, overdose

Middle-Aged White Population is Dying Because Of These Reasons

January 30, 2016 By Melissa Gansler Leave a Comment

"a group of middle-aged white people posing with a rocket"

Suicide, drug abuse, diabetes and heart problems are among the main factors that kill middle aged white people.

(Mirror Daily, United States) – Advancements in developing a cure for heart diseases, diabetes and obesity are not something to take lightly. Especially due to the fact that the middle-aged white population is dying because of these reasons.

Policy makers and health care professionals are worried about the reasons for which the majority of the middle-aged white population is dying. The common American is dying because of common diseases such as heart problems, diabetes, drug abuse and suicides. And it is only happening in the US.

According to the author of the study and the president of the Commonwealth Fund, David Blumenthal, diseases are discovered and treated at a normal pace, but this happens with new illnesses or medical conditions that seem like a bigger threat than high cholesterol induced heart problems.

Dr. Blumenthal explains that research in the fields that affect the majority of the middle-aged white population has stagnated. And this is worrying both medical professionals and insurance companies. It is also disastrous from an economic point of view because insurance providers will be more careful with their policies when talking about the middle-aged white population as they are considered a risk right now.

A demographer from the Pennsylvania University, Samuel Preston, explains that the mortality rates in states like Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Arkansas are higher with 60 to 75 percent than those in the 80s and early 90s. Something happened in between the late 90s and today that caused a serious spike in the mortality rated of the middle-aged white population

On the other side, the lowest mortality rates among the middle-aged white population were registered in states like California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Minnesota.

Dr. Preston expressed his concern and stated that the numbers should be seen as a national problem. There are parts of the United States where Americans die younger than the previous generations. The reasons registered for the deaths were common threats as suicide, drug abuse, heart problems and diabetes.

It has become obvious to medical care professionals that they have to focus more on solving these problems. The research efforts must be refreshed and strengthened in order to progress to be felt.

Last year, a couple of Nobel-prize laureates Anne Case and Angus Deaton, economists at Princeton University published a study which showed the increased levels in death rates among white Americans that are non-Latino between the ages of 45 to 54.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Death, Drug Abuse, heart problems, Middle-Aged American, Middle-Aged White American, Suicide, White American People

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