The state with the biggest drug problem?

Accidental drug overdose is currently the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States for people between the ages of 35-54 and the second leading cause of injury-related death for young people. Drug overdose deaths now exceed those attributable to firearms, homicides or HIV/AIDS. Most of these deaths are preventable, but the "tough on crime" rhetoric of the drug war and the stigma associated with drug use have blocked the widespread adoption of life-saving overdose prevention policies, including Good Samaritan 911 legislation and distribution of the overdose reversal medication naloxone. DPA is leading the national effort to reduce drug overdose deaths by promoting sensible solutions and better policy at the state and federal level.

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Haven't seen you around here much lately.

Not Utah???

Florida

So whose Number 1?

Inquiring minds want to know!

The drug problem in the U.S is cause by doctors over prescribing drugs and causing more death than street drugs.


Report: Prescription Drug Deaths Skyrocket

More people die in America every year from prescription drug abuse than die from heroin and cocaine combined. That stunning finding comes in a new report Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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New Mexico is the biggest shit-hole dive of all the states.
The most corrupt and completely filled with hard-core drug addict assholes.

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I would have guessed W. Virginia is number 1. Is there anything to do there other than overdose?

Psht! Amateurs.
Drugs are not the problem, juvenile users are.
Parents should take better care of their children and show the proper way to OD.

I am a drug addict, but no longer do I live that lifestyle thank God! Drugs of choice were mainly opiates like Heroin & Oxy 30's. But I would also take Xanax like candy too. But see, here is the thing people have to understand. Telling kids drugs are bad and all this anti drug talk will only make it worse. If kids are curious, and they want to do it, trust me they will do it.

Every state has a drug problem, but prescription drugs are by far most popular. High School kids these days aren't just smoking weed. Now they are doing things like Adderall, Oxycodone, Xanax, to name a few. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Middle School kids were doing crap like that.

I don't understand how they are acquiring those drugs. I need spinal fusion to fix my back and I have to go to a pain clinic to get pain meds. They don't Rx enough to properly manage my pain. I'm early 30s and they are very cautious in what they do prescribe.

Basically I have a very difficult time acquiring drugs to manage pain. Who is prescribing the drugs? How can a person get that many pain pills and sell them on the street?

Things must be very different than whats going on in my geographical area.

From what I see, its the older medicare patients that are selling the drugs. Its basically impossible for a young person to acquire pain meds.

do prescription drug users count? they get hooked up 2 or 3 times a day. then u got cops and ambulance drivers smoking k2 in the morning. it's everywhere.

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the war on drugs was to increase drugs in the US

Eastern NC

Heroin is big time right now. It is real cheap and a lot of people are instantly addicted the first time they try it.

Not North Dakota???

This is more due to a mentality of addiction and a certain type of environment then actual addictiveness of opiates.

If what you say were true, we would be living in a living nightmare.

I feel for the people really needing the pain relief.

Had ankle fusion surgery, triple, everything was fused, plus the in the bone IM rod, major...and I was only given 3 go arounds of the oxycodone w/tylenol 5/535.

Then 3 go arounds of tramadol, for break through pain; then no more.

Then 3 go arounds of valium, for foots/toe spasms, then no more. Even though foot/toes still having spasms.

When I'm done with my 3nd go around (3rd prescription) which each prescription only covers 2-3 weeks, I will be weaned off the oxycodone/tylenol and go down to something else, can't remember name, probably tylenol w/codeine or something.

They aren't giving people much time anymore on the opiates.
And weaned off fast. I think you only get like 3 months worth now.

And have to have scripts, and go get them, can't call them in. Real pain in the butt.

I've never been addicted to any meds. so I'm not upset about my med schedule Dr. has set forth, but I feel for the people that are still hurting and can't get proper relief due to the abusers.

I cut back on my own even before Dr. did, I went from 2 every 4 hours to 2 every 6 to 2 every 8, etc. on the oxycodone...didn't mess w/the tramadol or valium, wasn't so worried about it.

I'm actually ok now, not in too much pain anymore, just stiff obviously :) I don't think I'll be in too much pain until start weight bearing on ankle again and learning how to walk again.

So, man I get the fused pain for anyone up against this and feel for yeah, those first few weeks are horrible if you don't have good pain meds! I could NOT handle the pain without opiates, morphine didn't really do a lot cuz I kept throwing it up.

DC BABY

Compton!
Oh wait that ain't a state

I had almost the same experience. Fell and crushed my ankle. Had emergency surgery. Titanium plate, rods and 4 screws. The pain was terrible. I am just getting back to weight bearing but I have had to fight for any pain medicine. I have never abused drugs in my life and I am in a tremendous amount of pain and asking for help makes you feel like you are doing a drug deal on some seedy street corner. I hate being in pain and having to fight!

OKLAHOMA

Vermont has the highest rate of illicit drug use in the country with 15% of people saying they've used within the past month (compared to 4.2% in Utah, where drug use is the lowest), according to 2010-2011 surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The state ranked high for almost every type of drug, from marijuana to cocaine.

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Experts attribute the problem to a combination of factors, including weather, politics, and proximity to big cities. "You have everything from the colder climate, which tends to be a reason some people give, to more liberal attitudes, to higher income levels, to people having more access, but I don't think anyone knows for sure," Barbara Cimaglio, the Vermont Department of Health's deputy commissioner for alcohol and drug abuse programs, told Business Insider.

Cimaglio pointed out that marijuana accounts for a large portion of the state's drug use. Vermont ranked highest in the U.S. for marijuana use, with about 13% of people saying they've used it in the past month. "I think what drives this up tends to be the higher use of marijuana, and if you look at the states [with high illicit drug use], they tend to be the states that have decriminalized or have more favorable attitudes toward use of marijuana," she said.

Trafficking from out-of-state drug dealers has also worsened Vermont's drug problem, likely because the state has highways that feed into big cities. "I think Vermont is really in sort of a perfect storm because we're on that highway between Montreal, Boston, New York, and also going to Philadelphia," Cimaglio said. "You have to go through Vermont to get to some of the bigger cities like Boston, so it seems like some people are just trafficking along the way and Vermont is one of the stops."
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that would be my guess too

however, a majority of the states have an infestation

Good thing Louisiana is really cracking down.

The state of mind.

Thank you for bringing up the not so obvious fact that prescription drugs are lethal poisons and are killing people at a genocidal rate.

The FDA does not deny it, they admit to 108,000 deaths a year from correctly prescribed, correctly administered drugs a year. That must be a very conservative figure and does not include doctor error, patient error or other doctor caused deaths that aren't adverse drug reaction deaths.

The longer I live the more I grow to hate all drugs, both street drugs and pharmaceutical drugs. But I'm not crazy, I know there's a time and a place for things, just not for people having 17 prescriptions that are managed badly, like family members of mine. Never, ever start down that road, stay away from the stuff! Don't let them get their claws in you . . . .

As a percentage of the population? Hawaii.