A new study conducted by the Centre for Disease control and Prevention reflects that there is a frenzy of the number of deaths caused by heroin overdose in the Unites States of America. As unfortunate as it may be, the number of death due to this abusive behavior has almost tripled from the year 2010 to the 2013 only. Over 8,200 Americans have lost their lives over this heroin addiction in 2014 with an average of 23 deaths per day.
The exploitation of prescription painkillers is possibly one of the reasons behind this sudden sharp elevation in the rate of overdose. A former CDC has found that more than 75 % of the people, who has started the use of heroin after the year 2000, were formerly misusing prescription opiods such as oxycodone and fentanyl. A large number of these people have swapped their addiction with heroin since it is chemically similar to these opiods and is comparatively cheaper. Heroin is also much easier to obtain.
Dissected down by gender, it was found that the death rate for males were almost 4 times higher than females in the year 2013. The numbers were 6,525 and 1,723 respectively. Britain has also been going through a similar drift concerning the matter of drug abuse and deaths. In Britain, 2.098 males died from a drug-related poisoning in 2013 and the number for females that same year was 923. The question remains why is the gap between male and female death from drug abuse so distinctive and prominent?
Dr. Adam Winstock, the founder of the Global Drug Survey said in an interview with the Telegraph that men have the higher tendency of taking risks in comparison to women. The lifestyle they possess in unhealthier, they experience more accidents and are also less probable to take into consideration the dangers of drug abuse.
One can say when it comes to risk-taking men feel that they are some kind of daredevil or something equivalent to that but too bad drugs were their choice of weapon.