U.S. Coast Guard Seizes $1B Worth Of Narcotics

[PBramble]

1 person every 5 seconds dies of drug abuse.
I looked up some numbers and did not find 2021 numbers but 2019 was found and
Found this on CDC web sight. in a year deaths at 1 every 5 seconds would be 105,120 deaths.
I also found 1 in 5 drug overdose deaths are from cocaine.


1 In 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. The age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths increased by over 4% from 2018 (20.7 per 100,000) to 2019 (21.6 per 100,000).

• Opioids—mainly synthetic opioids (other than methadone)—are currently the main driver of drug overdose deaths. 72.9% of opioid-involved overdose deaths involve synthetic opioids.
• Opioids were involved in 49,860 overdose deaths in 2019 (70.6% of all drug overdose deaths).
• Drug overdose deaths involving psychostimulants such as methamphetamine are increasing with and without synthetic opioid involvement.2

Drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids and methamphetamine have shifted geographically.2

• From 2018 to 2019, the largest increase in death rates involving synthetic opioids occurred in the West (67.9%).
• The largest increase in death rates involving psychostimulants occurred in the Northeast (43.8%).
• Previously, the East had the highest increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids, and the Midwest had the highest increases in deaths involving psychostimulants.
• No state experienced a significant decrease from 2018-2019.

Umm, no. It would be higher than that. 6307200 deaths a year. The population of the US is 329.5 million. At that rate it would take 52.24 years to depopulate the US (if everyone used and not taking into account births). The number of births is just under 4 million a year, so we'll use 3.8 (still higher than their numbers) and over that 52.24 years gives us 198,512,000. Add that to the original 329.5 million and we've got 528012000. Divide that by the appropriate numbers and the US would be completely depopulated in 83.7 years (we can call it 84). I think their numbers may be a little skewed.

 

[SlugSlinger]

How does this compare to the amounts of opioids coming through the southern border?

Drop in the bucket! Pounds per month:

 

[SPOONBILL]

lol, and exactly how many of those deaths are from weed and coke?!?! oh come on we all know what drug kills the most americans, we know who makes it, and we know who sells it.

Moderna?

 

[Chaparral]

Keep in mind as a society we have gotten much better at saving overdoses from dying. I think it was one in fifteen? who died from od in chicago in the past few years. Please do not quote me, my memory is not as good as it once was, numbers are most likely way off.

 

[SiGArmed]

Funny(not really) how a doctor will dance around the addiction issue, basically giving up, and say the only way to reduce the trafficking is to hit the cartel in the wallet which means MORE government(military and laws). Isn't it basic economics of quantity supplied = quantity demanded? If so, don't you need to reduce the demand and the supply will self correct?

That's still a hell of a haul for one stop!

They don't seem to mind getting people addicted to pain killers though.

 

[SiGArmed]

lol, and exactly how many of those deaths are from weed and coke?!?! oh come on we all know what drug kills the most americans, we know who makes it, and we know who sells it.

Sugar?

 

[RickN]

Umm, no. It would be higher than that. 6307200 deaths a year. The population of the US is 329.5 million. At that rate it would take 52.24 years to depopulate the US (if everyone used and not taking into account births). The number of births is just under 4 million a year, so we'll use 3.8 (still higher than their numbers) and over that 52.24 years gives us 198,512,000. Add that to the original 329.5 million and we've got 528012000. Divide that by the appropriate numbers and the US would be completely depopulated in 83.7 years (we can call it 84). I think their numbers may be a little skewed.

I wonder how many of those overdoses are illegals not counted in the population?

 

[swampratt]

Umm, no. It would be higher than that. 6307200 deaths a year. The population of the US is 329.5 million. At that rate it would take 52.24 years to depopulate the US (if everyone used and not taking into account births). The number of births is just under 4 million a year, so we'll use 3.8 (still higher than their numbers) and over that 52.24 years gives us 198,512,000. Add that to the original 329.5 million and we've got 528012000. Divide that by the appropriate numbers and the US would be completely depopulated in 83.7 years (we can call it 84). I think their numbers may be a little skewed.

You are probably referring to my post of 1person every 5 seconds dies.

That was taken from the OP article.
I found it was not fact.
But your math is wrong if you came up with .
6307200 deaths a year. doing the seconds a year thing.

There are only 12 5 second intervals in an hour and 24 hours in a day and 365 days a year.
So 12 X 24 X 365=105,984

I did it wrong the first time also and came up with a ridiculous number.

 

[wawazat]

12 5 second intervals in a minute. There are 720 5 second intervals in an hour.

720*24*365=6,307,200

 

[Aries]

12 5 second intervals in a minute. There are 720 5 second intervals in an hour.

720*24*365=6,307,200

Actually, there are twelve seconds in a year.

January 2nd
February 2nd
March 2nd....