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Jul. 19th, 2013 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fandomnumbergeneratorOfficials in northern New England report a sharp rise in overdoses and heroin deaths.
This was such an aggravating article.
“One reason for the rise in heroin use is the restrictions on doctors in prescribing painkillers." I would be interested in seeing the numbers for total opiate overdoses. Saying that heroin overdoses are skyrocketing without saying that Oxy overdoses are decreasing, increasing or staying steady, is not that helpful.
"A $6 bag of heroin in New York City fetches $10 in southern New England but up to $30 or $40 in northern New England, law enforcement officials said." This just seems weird – how can you maintain a price differential that high. Also, and maybe this is just because I was the worst kind of girl junkie, and always had someone else cop for me, but I thought single bags in New York were permanently set at $10 with just the quantity changing.
"Theresa Dumond, 23, who lives on the streets of Portland, said she sells her body three times a day to support her heroin habit.” Ugh.
“Novice users are more likely to share needles" I would actually be interested in the data on this.
"Maine is the first state that has limited access to specific medications, including buprenorphine and methadone, that have been proven to be effective in treating addiction, a step taken to save money." Great. Though maybe that fact should have been in the first paragraph of an article talking about increased overdoses in Maine.
"After her most recent term in prison, for drug trafficking, her friends and family thought she was clean. She was even preparing to go back to school in cosmetology and hairdressing and hoped she might regain custody of her young son.But one night last month, Ms. Watson-Carter injected some very pure heroin, according to her father, Michael Watson, a retired Amtrak police officer, who lives in Maryland.‘She was taking the same amount she would usually take, but it was so concentrated and pure that she overdosed,’ he said.” Or maybe doing heroin for the first time after being in prison is a known risk for overdose.
