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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what's working
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Possibly related: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/18/nx-s1-5156068/ozempic-semaglutide-alcohol-drug-treatment
U think any drug addict can afford ozempic even
If you're not in a shithole Republican state: the ACA allows lots of homeless drug addicts to seek treatment they would otherwise be unable to afford, because they don't have income or a home, so they qualify for most treatments to be covered. This allows many to fix their lives, although many still do not. Yes, obese meth addicts with heart failure exist.
No we have to throw them in prison and work them for free in a field, that's the only way...murica.
I hate that this sounds like sarcasm but is in fact, reality.
I know a few physicians who have already been seeing it in their practice.
The drug addicts that risk overdosing and literally die from it are usually not ones that have lots of extra money to pay extra thousands of dollars every month just to "look nice and lose weight". They care more about getting the high. I think the seriously addicted ones are the ones who have the highest chance of overdosing.