So thats roughly 3% of the population with opioid addiction and roughly 70% of od deaths involving fentanyl, within the last couple of years.
Yeah, exact numbers are hard to come by, but if you think a million+ people doesn’t count as ‘en masse’, well then I guess I’ll try some of whatever you’re smoking.
The latest official count of prescription fent abusers I can find is about half a million, from 2021… but that doesn’t count people who get it without a prescription, which is quite a lot.
And its also kind of fundamentally impossible to count homeless fent users.
I would know, I have both been homeless and used to manage the data analytics of a large network of homeless shelters and assistance providers.
https://www.addictiongroup.org/resources/fentanyl-statistics/
https://drugabusestatistics.org/
So thats roughly 3% of the population with opioid addiction and roughly 70% of od deaths involving fentanyl, within the last couple of years.
Yeah, exact numbers are hard to come by, but if you think a million+ people doesn’t count as ‘en masse’, well then I guess I’ll try some of whatever you’re smoking.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/opioids/fentanyl/addiction-statistics
The latest official count of prescription fent abusers I can find is about half a million, from 2021… but that doesn’t count people who get it without a prescription, which is quite a lot.
And its also kind of fundamentally impossible to count homeless fent users.
I would know, I have both been homeless and used to manage the data analytics of a large network of homeless shelters and assistance providers.