Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
by secabeen on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:29AM
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>3. I'm not sure it's a safe bet that opiate addiction is in every community. Seems like a false assumption. To my knowledge there are geographic differences, economic differences, and medical access differences between cohorts that use and those that don't.
The data is pretty staggering. 1 in 3 Americans have an opiate prescription each year, 1 in 20 had misused or obtained opiates, and 1 in 100 self-reported as an addict:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-one-third-americans-p...
Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
by mirimir on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:28AM
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> Nearly 92 million U.S. adults, or about 38 percent of the population, took a legitimately prescribed opioid like OxyContin or Percocet in 2015, according to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
That is mind boggling! I had no idea that opioid prescriptions were that common.
So is this a Baby Boomer effect?
Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
by totalZero on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:24PM
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More than 1 in 6 Americans live in NY or CA. That doesn't mean CA and NY residents are in every community.
Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
by Spooky23 on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:12PM
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Disparaging the idea makes sense, as detecting drug use in an area served by a particular sewer is answering a question that nobody has asked.
If we care so much about sewers, perhaps we should take the money squandered on this and hire laborers to maintain or replace aging sewer infrastructure.
"Offering treatment on demand everywhere is massively cheaper than trying to find out who is addicted to opiates."
1. Why can't you do both?
2. Treatment on demand can be marketed and tailored based on information about users.
3. I'm not sure it's a safe bet that opiate addiction is in every community. Seems like a false assumption. To my knowledge there are geographic differences, economic differences, and medical access differences between cohorts that use and those that don't.
The danger of disparaging an idea before it reaches maturity is that criticism may actually be incorrect, and discourage/dissuade positive developments. You can get the same criticism across without being counterproductive.