Hmmm...actually I am not sure where your info is.from as there was a recent post in that opiates Rx or street have killed 50,000 this past year and...
..."heroin" IS dosed out by the MG, it is called morphine which is what street heroin metabolizes into in the body!
But that discussion wasn't my point exactly for starting this thread...that would be another whole Pandora's box of a thread!
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Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.
According to the CDC 88,000 per year. Spousal abuse, violent crimes and rape are also much more likely to happen under the influence of alcohol.
Alcohol is highly addictive and withdrawals are lethal unlike heroin which very few people have died from heroin withdrawals.
Heroin on the streets is not dosed out one bit and majority of the deaths are from fentanyl laced heroin or just plain old synthetic heroin made with fentanyl and cut. Just one dust grain of fentanyl is like 1 MG of Oxycodone it's not easy to mix perfectly if possible at all.
Pharmaceutical Opioid Analgesics 18,893
Heroin Overdose 10,574
That's the opiate related deaths from 2010.
Just because heroin metabolizes into Morphine makes no difference when you don't know if you are getting 5 or 50 Mg's in the bag of dope it's all cut and a lot is mixed with fentanyl which can't be properly mixed in a gram of powder so every bag is the same dose.
Alcohol is worse than heroin no if ands or buts about it.
