Substance Abuse
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| Coronavirus creates danger of a spike in substance abuse |
After COVID-19, we will most likely witness a surge of mental and behavioral health cases, including substance abuse and addiction problems, that will dwarf the opioid crisis and strain communities throughout the nation. How can we predict this? Immediately following the Great Recession, suicides rose by 13% and were attributed to skyrocketing unemployment. Over the past four weeks, more than 26 million people in the United States have filed for unemployment, the highest number of claims in American history. To put this in context, this is significantly larger than the entire population of the state of New York, which is currently 19.45 million. |
Corona, Substance Abuse | ||
| Drug overdoses killed twice as many people in San Francisco last year than COVID, with 2021 on track to be worse |
San Francisco, California, is in the midst of a drug overdose epidemic that killed more residents last year than the coronavirus and is on pace to be even worse in 2021. More than 700 San Franciscans died from drug overdoses last year, compared to 300 deaths as a result of coronavirus infections, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. Chief medical examiner data shows that overdose fatalities in San Francisco started skyrocketing in 2019, which is the same time that large amounts of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, were unleashed on the streets. “We anticipated mortality to go up because that is exactly what’s happened everywhere that fentanyl has settled... |
covid, overdose, Substance Abuse |
