Crisis for Drug Consumption Confirmed in the United States

Regarding the authorities and the mass media, they considered as a living hell the occurrence of almost a hundred cases of drug overdose in less than 36 hours, especially in New Haven region that is near the famous University of Yale.

The chaos was so shocking that the principal of the emergency operations in New Have named Rick Fontana could not finish his Press conference as he had to deal with six persons at that moment.

“Six of them fell down at the same time.”Rick Fontana pointed out.

Rick Fontana said to El País newspaper that they had counted until 25 cases of overdose for over three hours.

The mayoress from New Haven, named Tony Harp, talked about what was experienced that week as an example of the great problems by which the local authorities are going through around the United States.

The point is that the new challenge has a name in the United States and its name is K-2 or Spice which is a synthetic drug that is a hundred of time stronger than marijuana which is a design that can cause heart attacks and irreversible damages.

Luckily, the event from New Haven had not any death, taking into account that the affected ones were quickly treated with Naloxone which is a medicine that helps reviving the overdose victims and its usage has been increased at the same time that the drug consumption.

The U.S. mass media classified what happened in New Haven as a crisis on the drug consumption which means a serious threat to that nation’s public health.

The last report made by the National Diseases Control Center confirmed the drugs killed 72287 people in the United States in 2017 that was the highest number in that nation’s history, along with the aggravating factor that it represents an increase of 10% in relation to 2016.

The number surpasses the deaths by car accidents or the assassinations due to the violence with firearms.

Even the Aids epidemic did not kill many people in only a year like the overdose epidemic. The statistics show the overdoses by the opium’s derivative substances is what kill and it is scourge that dates back to the beginning of the 1920s decade.

It is mainly linked to the excessive prescription of Oxycontin and other illegal analgesics which caused that over two million people got addicted in the United States.

There are approximately a hundred people who die daily by related overdose while the number of young people hospitalized by that cause has multiplied since 2004.

The president Donald Trump declared that problem as a health national emergency problem last year and he used programmed funds for the communities that fight against their inhabitants’ drug addiction and they suffer as a consequence of the social impact of the overdoses on children who get orphans.

Donald Trump promised to finish with that epidemic, but the doctors believe that fight should be carried out from a more comprehensive and preventive approach rather than only paying when there is an addition. It is a mater of education to prevent it from happening.

By Demetrio Villarrutia Zulueta
Translated by JC Caballero