{"id":17614,"date":"2025-05-05T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2025-05-05T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:24:25","slug":"a-new-study-adds-to-the-evidence-that-drug-busts-result-in-more-overdose-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17614","title":{"rendered":"A New Study Adds to the Evidence That Drug Busts Result in More Overdose Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The study included 2,653 drug seizures and 1,833 opioid-related deaths from 2020 to 2023. &#8220;Within the surrounding 100, 250, and 500 meters,&#8221; RTI International researcher Alex H. Kral and his two co-authors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2831697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>&nbsp;on Wednesday, &#8220;drug seizures were associated with a statistically significant increase in the relative risk for fatal opioid overdoses.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Prohibition makes drug use more dangerous by creating a black market in which quality and potency are highly variable and unpredictable. Ramped-up enforcement of prohibition magnifies that problem, as dramatically demonstrated by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/02\/03\/florida-drug-deaths-surged-on-pam-bondis-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deadly impact<\/a>&nbsp;of restricting access to pain medication at the same time that illicit fentanyl was proliferating as a heroin booster and substitute.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/20\/a-new-study-adds-to-the-evidence-that-drug-busts-result-in-more-overdose-deaths\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/20\/a-new-study-adds-to-the-evidence-that-drug-busts-result-in-more-overdose-deaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The study included 2,653 drug seizures and 1,833 opioid-related deaths from 2020 to 2023. &#8220;Within the surrounding 100, 250, and 500 meters,&#8221; RTI International researcher Alex H. Kral and his two co-authors reported in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday, &#8220;drug seizures were associated with a statistically significant increase in the relative risk for fatal opioid overdoses.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prohibition makes drug use more dangerous by creating a black market in which quality and potency are highly variable and unpredictable. Ramped-up enforcement of prohibition magnifies that problem, as dramatically demonstrated by the deadly impact of restricting access to pain medication at the same time that illicit fentanyl was proliferating as a heroin booster and substitute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/20\/a-new-study-adds-to-the-evidence-that-drug-busts-result-in-more-overdose-deaths\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[800,53,439,1503,343,1337,811,48,209,989],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bans","tag-deaths","tag-drugs","tag-evidence","tag-overdose","tag-prohibition","tag-science","tag-studies","tag-study","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17615,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions\/17615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}