Opiate Overdose facts
While investigating facts about Opiate Overdose Statistics and , I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 2015 more Americans died of prescription opiate overdoses than were murdered or died in traffic accidents.
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A Redditor and former heroin addict named Tracey Helton has saved the lives of over 110 Redditors by mailing out an opiate overdose antidote named naloxone
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Opiate Overdose I managed to collect.
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There is a synthetic opiate called Carfentanil. It is 10,000 times as powerful as morphine. It is so powerful it is only used to sedate large animals, since a human could so easily be overdosed.
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The opiate overdose reversal medication Narcan can block the placebo effect.
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Legend Mitch Hedberg overdosed on Opiates (likely Heroin), Cocaine, Diazepam, Termazepam, and Sertraline.
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A Redditor and former heroin addict has saved the lives of over 100 Redditors by mailing out an opiate overdose antidote named naloxone
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33,000 people died of opiate related drug overdoses in 2015. 28,000 in 2014.
