California’s millennials continue to flood hospital emergency departments because of heroin, a trend that has increased steadily statewide and in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the past five years, according to the latest figures.
The state data released last week show that in the first three months of 2016, 412 adults age 20 to 29 went to emergency departments due to heroin. That’s double the number for the same time period in 2012.
Overall, emergency department visits among heroin users of all ages increased, but the sharpest was among the state’s young adults. About 1,500 emergency department visits by California’s millennials poisoned by heroin were logged in 2015 compared with fewer than 1,000 in 2012.
Emergency responders, those who work in recovery programs, and parents of children addicted to heroin say the figures are unsurprising given the increase in prescription painkiller abuse that likely has led more young people to use heroin.
“One of the unintended consequences of this prescription drug epidemic has been the increase in heroin addiction and overdoses, in part due to the transition from prescription opioids to less expensive heroin street drugs,” according to state health officials. “Heroin deaths have continued to increase steadily by 67 percent since 2006 and account for a growing share of the total opioid-related deaths.”
More pain in life today, need pleasure to offset the pain. Haven't done it myself, but supposedly heroin is top of the list when it comes to pleasure.
Alexander Long
Why are you complaining let them kill themselves pass some laws so doctors can't save them then sit back and watch the worst generation crash and burn.
Parker Martinez
Because in the USA, they prescribe opiods painkillers like candies In France, you would have to be in extreme pain to get a strong painkiller, the first treatment would be NSAID
Julian King
Because it's cheap and fun
Eli Garcia
It took me about 24 months of visiting specialists before I was able to get any kind of opioid prescription, which was hydrocodone at first. Although I have been on them for 10 years after that.
Asher Garcia
If I was a Californian millennial, I'd do heroin
Aiden Murphy
because of the 1990s heroin chic culture. It glamorized and embedded cynicism and self destruction of yourself, and your culture.
so when the french are butt raped by refugees they have to suck it up and live with the pain?
William Miller
Because NARCAN is destroying the concept of natural selection
Parker Gray
This is just because of all the annoying ass tenants of the trees LA burger records indie rock kids just doing heroin to impress qt art girls and give their shitty knockoff the garden band some credit
Nothing to see here
Nathaniel Young
That's litterally written in the article, it's because of painkillers prescriptions. Also it's interesting to note that the production has increased in Afghanistan since 2001
Jeremiah Green
Yes Or take Extended release morphine sulfate
A lot of synthetic opioids aren't even commercialized here
Brayden Thomas
sometimes frenchmen are so damn cool
Lucas Wilson
I'm trying to quit because I'm good looking and it keeps ruining every relationship I attempt however if I was ugly and could afford to use everyday I would. Honestly girls don't even seem worth it compared to the high..Fuck this shit
Leo Reed
When you are drunk all day every day I could see why.
Ayden James
Oh and Codeine is available OTC here (even without APAP) which is pretty cool I don't know if it will last though because a lot of youth got into this "purple drank" stuff and it got the attention of medical authorities
Grayson Phillips
>A lot of synthetic opioids aren't even commercialized here
Opioid means it's synthetic already. If it's from a plant, it's an opiate. If it's an opioid that needs an opiate as an ingredient in the synthesis, it's a semi-synthetic opioid.
That's too bad, they're the bet kind. The standard procedure for pain at the hospital here is to give 2mg hydromorphone IV'd. I used to be sick all the time and constantly in the hospital. I'd see people get extremely high off of it when they came in for injuries.
Owen Howard
Good allow the weak generation known as millenials to die off.
Hudson Price
Hamid Karzai, the Bush family, and the CIA. Why were so many Vietnam vets heroin addicts?
Nolan Williams
I heard you can buy percocets over the counter at drug stores in canada. true? was thinking about taking a drugcation there.
Jace Stewart
Drugs are a scourge that literally remove your free will and must be banned.
No you're not just hurting yourself.
Adrian Lopez
> cheap
wut? been friends with junkies (knew them from high school before they got addicted to smack). That couple spent more than 100€ (converted, back then we had DM) on it PER DAY, and started dealing to be able to satisfy the habit.
Jayden Young
I heard Oxymorphone is the best
William Russell
It's by far the most euphoric opioid I've ever run into myself. It's not commonly used in hospitals around here like hydromorphone is, though. Oxymorphone is more something that's sold on the streets out of people's prescriptions.
Thomas Rivera
Even more telling is that there was an initial drop as the fields were confiscated and burned by US Army divisions, then mysteriously they were ordered to just guard them while (((locals))) came in and started growing again. Then production boomed.
Luke Powell
Hydromorphone is prescribed here only for cancer related pain
Josiah Rogers
If they're in LA or Orange Counties, they probably aren't white. Interesting that opioid use is spreading to the spics.
Ayden King
Neat, Hans. You discovered black market microeconomics. This is what happens when you prohibit something for which there is a market. Especially when that market is fueled by foreigners with ties to terrorist militias in their home countries where the source of these drugs grows wildly.
William Parker
This!
Caleb Jones
It's harmless bro. Al these ODs are lightweights who can't handle their shit.
Ayden Wilson
no there's tylenol one that has about 1/4 the codiene of tylenol three, but it's mixed with caffeine so you don't get anything out of it recreationally
go to central america
Owen Mitchell
>California >a state full of useless rich kids with no ambition and non-white criminals ready to supply their habit h-how did it happen
Bentley Rogers
Oxycontin.
Opiates are very much a stepping stone onto stronger and stronger opiates.
Landon White
because somebody is making a shitload of it and flooding our streets with the shit. it is literally everywhere.
Brayden Evans
There has been a massive increase in the supply of heroin in the past couple years from cheap, shitty Mexican Black Tar. Its cheaper than weed or even a pack of cigs in some places.
Chase Wright
Our generation hates itself. Look at the way white people hate white people from this garbage generation.
It's like we found our purpose in nihilism. I can't wait to get a gen z cutie for a gf
Sebastian Bailey
Here it's the standard drug for any type of pain. I've seen people get it for broken bones, cancer, gunshots, stabbings and even just because they were unable to take their normal opioid prescriptions (severe nausea, etc)
Anthony Jones
where is it being produced?
Benjamin Bailey
has anyone in here also had a good feeling in there body a good change is coming?
Jayden Bailey
I don't know, where do you think Mexican black tar heroin is produced?
Someone from my graduating class just OD'd the other week. I honestly do not feel bad for these rich kids dying. The majority are absolute subhuman and provide nothing to society.
Easton Lopez
My dad is an anaesthesiologist and I've had access to grade A+ heroin since I was a child (he literally doesn't give a shit and all his meds are all over the place). From time to time I take from his benzo stash, shit's cash. Millenials are just weak willed idiots.
Caleb Diaz
sinaloa
Brayden Jackson
>(((pharma))) decides to not care who gets painkillers (they don't anyways) >druggies and degenerates begging for money everywhere on the street >more homeless addicts everywhere >eye sores everywhere >why are you complaining?
Shut the fuck up.
Nathaniel Campbell
>be pharmaceutical jews >make oxycontin >tell doctors its fine and to hand them out like crazy >tell them they'll get commission >doctors prescribe this shit to soccer moms >hurt ankle? oxy. hurt feelings? oxy. depressed? oxy. broke a nail? oxy. >middle class soccer moms become junkies >veg out on the couch and ignore kids >kids get into mom's stash and take pills >become junkies themselves or sell them to friends >oops looks like this shit is actually super bad for you >they ban it >a large chunk of the middle class is now out of drugs and looking for a fix >turn to heroin, the next best thing
and thats why you have kids OD'ing like crazy. The pharmaceutical kikes knew it was addictive and horrible and sold it anyway for shekels. Just another reason they all belong in an oven.
Blake Gomez
thanks cool canada guy!
Juan Ortiz
>destroy economy >gut safety net programs >dilute value of education >heroin suddenly seems better than suicide >drug war inneffective >bur muhhh muhhh millenials >die
Gabriel Brown
Oxycontin isn't banned. They actually spent a lot of money developing OP (instead of the original OC) oxycontin pills. The OP pills turn into a gel when crushed, making them unable to be snorted or injected or have the full dose release at once when swallowed.
The OP formulation is banned in other countries, though, it contains a known carcinogen.
Jose Lopez
Great foresight there bro.
Josiah Nguyen
Because opium is the opium of the masses.
Jeremiah Taylor
kekd
Jaxon Brooks
where in mexico i meant
Brody Martin
They started with Xanax and lean and all that other popular niggershit. It's today's crack, highly addictive trash drugs glorified in rap so dealers that would never touch the stuff themselves can sling it to get "their slice of the pie". Millennials like doing tons of drugs but then they just crash out together instead of doing fun shit, so heroin is perfect for them.
Eli Williams
>be California millennial >OD on heroin >burn to death in your DIY space
its a tough life
Liam Martin
we are a generation of men raised by women and we are starting to realize that fact. cut my life into pieces
William King
>in part due to the transition from prescription opioids to less expensive heroin street drugs,”
>be American >get hooked on prescription oxy's >medical system so very shitty and expensive it's literally cheaper to take smack
Seriously though. Doesn't take a genius to figure this out. Remember all those sandnigger opium farmers the US is protecting in Afghanistan? Uncle Sam's gotta sell all this product somewhere, Milennials have plenty of their parents money, so why not?
Eli Campbell
Which is the known carcinogen? I've never heard that before.
>Interesting that opioid use is spreading to the spics.
They're 10-15 years behind us culturally, makes sense that they're also 10+ years behind us drug-abuse wise.
Josiah Taylor
Took me awhile to actually find out what ingredient it was. It's butylated hydroxytoluene.
Dylan Sanchez
Because they've been giving out pills of all sorts to kids like they were fucking candy.
There were a lot of kids that died while I was still in school because they were railing oxies and drinking. Since I've graduated my class has been dropping like flies to Heroine.
Elijah Collins
marijuana is a gateway drug, just like everyone has said since forever. normalizing degeneracy only leads to more degeneracy
In the midst of an opioid crisis, some medical practitioners and researchers say they think that greater use of marijuana for pain relief could result in fewer people using the highly addictive prescription painkillers that led to the epidemic.
A 2016 study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that states with medical marijuana laws had 25 percent fewer opioid overdose deaths than states that do not have medical marijuana laws. And another study published in Health Affairs last year found that prescriptions for opioid painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet paid for by Medicare dropped substantially in states that adopted medical marijuana laws.
Leo Campbell
>everyone says
Matthew Sanchez
its not just millenials theres a huge opiate problem in this country in general
Leo Price
>druggies and degenerates begging for money everywhere on the street
you mean stealing and thieving, which is much worse
Josiah Gray
You're talking about medical marijuana usage. He's talking about recreational marijuana usage.
I'd still stand by his point that marijuana is a gateway drug. Convince me otherwise
Angel Roberts
Because it feels good. u cant get enough of that warm brainslushy head-high once u try the stuff
Alexander Hernandez
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Caleb Reyes
Bunch of pussified wankers who can't face reality as usual for my generation so they turn to hard drugs.
Idiots you stay with the light weight stuff
Asher Robinson
And let me guess, the most of them are white?
They are hooking up the whites with poison on purpose.
Julian Turner
Quick rush without though about consequences as they have little responsability.
Benjamin Lewis
I don't have a hard-line stance on this. Simply because of the way I grew up and witnessed how cigarettes and alcohol can destroy lives, I generally don't like the idea of taking drugs. So if you really wanted to convince otherwise ignorant/stubborn people like me, you'll have to show me the evidence. Otherwise I'm going to stick to the way I've always felt my entire life.
Jeremiah Morris
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Hunter Howard
I'm not saying you have to take drugs I'm saying that you have zero evidence that legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes increases opioid use.
Nolan Cox
I've lived in LA my whole life. Let me give you a quick rundown.
Iranians used to run heroin in LA. Iran actually consumes more opium than any other country. Like 7 years or so ago all those guys started getting arrested. The only thing left was shit tier Mexican black tar and very rarely good opium so a lot of junkies actually went clean. Recently connections have been set up bringing in the Afghani heroin so now people who've been used to black tar are taking real heroin again and dying from it.
Alexander Jenkins
black tar is stronger than heroin tho. black tar means morphine that is partially acetylated which ends up producing 6-Mam which is stronger than heroin itself.
this is part of the reason for the current fent/OD epidemic just fyi, the people who were addicted to oxys before are still addicted to opiates now, except they have to turn elsewhere to get their fix and guess what the chinks are producing by the kilo even as we speak? fent
Zachary Myers
the dare program in school is the true gateway to drugs
Lincoln Stewart
We're not hooked on heroine. We're hooked on this fucking site.
Thomas Turner
up until a few years ago, you used to be able to get oxys from "pain management" clinics, which were all over the place. It was just a way for crooked doctors to make extra money handing out prescriptions. a lot of people thought it was relatively safe, because it's a lab-made pharmaceutical, not a street drug.
now all those people (and their high-school kids who were stealing their pills) can't get their fix and are forced to do heroin or fentanyl. most of these addictions start when the kids are 14-17 and stealing pills from an elder.
Elijah Collins
smoking weed once was all it took for me to realize everything id ever been told about drugs was a lie, now i'm on a mission to do everything but IV heroin and smoke meth
Carson Thompson
>degenerate with a drug addict in his family wanting sympathy from us so he blames it on big pharma >i-it c-couldn't be my folks own fault!
It doesn't work like that. It's entirely their own fault they got hooked to these drugs on their own accord, not "big pharma" and not the doctors. In fact, retards like your degenerate family members need more drugs so they die off sooner.
I have needed them at times and never wound up abusing them or shooting up like you filthy ilk have done. Low IQ people get addicted.
Cameron Young
When you see stuff like this happen you know the CIA is behind it
Joseph Evans
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Isaac Smith
I was a junkie for 6 years. I live and grew up in metro Detroit. I've been clean for 3 years, but the problem here is so bad. Kids dying left and right. I had a few ODs, but thankfully that shit is behind me.
Personally I think this user is right. The world is so fucked up and kids don't know how to cope so they fall for the media jew which tells them "muh smoke weed muh git drunkk muh Yolo nigguh". Fucking sad man. Can't wait to watch society collapse desu.
Cooper Thompson
Unironic biohazard symbol for sure the doctors put it there at birth.
Samuel Bennett
this is what happens when the bogpill goes wrong
Matthew Rivera
Heroine is not politics.
John Davis
Fentanyl analogues have been a problem for decades. At the moment the law isn't able to keep up with the new analogues being produced.
Acetylfentanyl and butyrfentanyl were recently banned. They were instantly replaced with Furanylfentanyl.
Nicholas Russell
anyone who's struggling with dope should switch to kratom. it's affordable, will stop WDs and you'll actually be able to lead a productive, crime free life. fuck that garbage
Jackson Evans
Weed is no longer profitable for the cartels so they're now pushing lots of heroin and meth. All you stupid gringos are at fault, you'd consume anything the cartels push just to get high.
Hudson Adams
>low IQ people get addicted you don't know anything about body chemistry, do you?
Cameron Brooks
I am a behavioral neurologist and psychopharmacologist so I know a great deal more than practically anyone on Sup Forums.
The inability to delay gratification for reward is correlated with IQ. Stupid people get the quickest reward possible. Any sane person would extend this to the use of euphoric drugs and it has been done and made before. Look up addiction and IQ.
Noah Kelly
Inversely*
Angel Martinez
Its almost like the majority of this generation are brain dead morons. Oops nevermind I'm just old. These kids today can't possibly be dumb.
Colton Garcia
prove it then retard
Robert Ross
free healthcare is a huge part of the problem
need pills for your """"Bad Back""""", you'll be covered? Oh you """""Used"""" them a little faster then you should have? No worries heres a bigger prescription
Our tax dollars are literally paying for dope on the street. The oxy epidemic has created a heroine epidemic
