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mr_lebowski

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4. What posts #2 and #3 said ...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2019, 11:00 PM

Apr 2019

"a cause of death for 91 of them"

Notice the word 'a' as opposed to 'the' here.

And how many of those people OD'd on purpose, any clue?

Important to note is that it's a mild mu opioid receptor agonist, meaning it's essentially mild opioid-like drug, which leads many people to use it get off of harder stuff. But guess what? Getting off hard dope is a BITCH, and people kill themselves while in the throes of withdrawals ALL THE TIME.

So this number, w/o a corresponding count of how many are suspected suicides ... means very little.

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