So many suicides/overdoses around me

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There have been so many young people around me either committing suicide or dying from drug overdoses. Every week on social media, it seems like I find out someone has died. I'm too young to be seeing people my age and younger than me die. There have been so many suicides/overdoses that I know of since January that I've lost count. There has been an increasing number of youth deaths in my area within the last 4 or 5 years. I have a lot of Facebook friends who are dead. There is something definitely happening within our society that is not being addressed. Young people seem to be struggling with a lot of things such as student loan debt, income inequality, poverty, mental illness, depression, anxiety, and other problems. It is getting to a point where they can't cope with the stresses of everyday life so they turn to drugs or commit suicide to escape their problems. It is really sad that life has gotten this bad that people are looking for ways out. Something needs to change.

I agree. One of the problems is the introduction of fentanyl into the mix of drug many young people are taking. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent. In 2017, 59.8 percent of opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl compared to 14.3 percent in 2010. In 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (other synthetic narcotics) with more than 28,400 overdose deaths. Fentanyl is added to heroin to increase its potency, or be disguised as highly potent heroin. Many users believe that they are purchasing heroin and actually don’t know that they are purchasing fentanyl – which often results in overdose deaths.

Our generation never gets a break.

The majority of our seniors do not respect us & refuse to accept their role in all the social pressures.

No one seems to think we deserve enough to live on. I probably work for less than half what my older coworkers make & I'm a software engineer with years of experience.

We're constantly forced to prove ourselves, or else.

Have most of the people who died lived in the same area If so & if you also live in that area, you need to move the F out of there as fast as you can

Here, too. Not so much with suicides, but the opioid epidemic is pretty bad here with people dying all the time. An old coworker died last week. He’s the second one I’ve known. But I see on Facebook almost every week that someone I know has lost someone to an OD/fentanyl.

Another factor that seems to be getting overlooked.

For many younger people today, the Internet has become their reality -- their "Facebook Friends" mean more to them than the people they bump into every day. Nobody's opinion means anything unless it's expressed on-line, and online bullying has reached epidemic proportions. Kids are killing themselves because someone posted a re-tweet of something someone else said about them, and those posts get seen all around the world.

One "bedroom selfie" can be seen by millions in an hour, and if that image was supposed to be kept a secret between only two people ("I promise I won't share..."), then the person in the image may be the recipient of every imaginable come-on, insult and threat from complete strangers. The emotional shock can be devastating.

It's no wonder the suicide rate among young people is rising.

Sadly, the war on opioids is creating an over-correction that is causing some real harm to patients who need these medications. My friend, who works in the pharmaceutical field, and also suffers from chronic pain, routinely post articles on Facebook shining a light on this issue. I remember one story about a woman who had stage four cancer and couldn't get her much-needed pain medication because pharmacists are under great pressure from the DEA. That's seriously messed up!

Yep......"overcorrection".....

My mother broke her shoulder, and was in severe pain.

She couldn't get a refill of her pain medication because.....she couldn't get a refill because of all those opioid abusers out there.

My mother is in her 80's. She's not going to, all of a sudden, start abusing prescription medication.

Only the kids?

My ex was 37 and she was upset because I never interact and like her pics on fb - I never do to anyone because I am barely active on fb, and when I do, I barely check the feed.

Frankly, I am not seeing much difference between the young adults and the 30s in that.

I wonder how long it will take before people realise that it's the value system imposed upon us by businessmen that's making us all miserable.

My girlfriend had her gull bladder removed a couple days ago. We went to the ER Wednesday cuz of her stomach pain & they did the surgery Thursday morning. They gave her a narcotic pain med at 1st along with Tylenol & in the middle of that night they told her they needed to put in an order for more of the narcotic because she wasn't authorized for more. It was like 12 hours after her surgery was over. She was still in sever pain so they did give her more but it took so a little time. When they checked her out Friday afternoon they told her how they sent a prescription of the narcotic to the hospital pharmacy that I picked up while she was getting ready to go. The doc talked like it would be enough to last her while she recovered. When we got home we noticed it was only 5 F#CKING PILLS that could be taken every 4 hours. which lasted like one day. There was also a lot of paperwork about how you can get addicted if your not careful & to use em only as needed. HOW THE F#CK CAN YOU GET ADDICTED WITH ONLY 5 PILLS THAT YOU TAKE ONE OF EVERY 4 HOURS The narcotic ran out but she's still taking Tylenol now & an anti-inflammatory she's prescribed for her fibromyalgia. She was in bad shape after we got home from the hospital but she's doing a bit better today. Now she's in just as good of shape that she was when we left the hospital so that's good. She's been trying to get her fibromyalgia treated the last few years & about the only pain meds she's ever gotten are Tylenol & anti-inflammatories & those only help with her pain alittle. I think she needs to see a pain specialist who might know more.

I had surgery on my nose like 4 years ago cuz the inside was crooked. Probably has been my whole life. After surgery I got a prescription for oxycodone that lasted me two weeks till I saw the doc again. I told him it was still hurting & asked for more & he gave me another week's worth. I didn't take em after that day cuz he mentioned how my nose was still very inflamed & I had a bit of prescription Aleve on hand so I took that till I ran out. I just wanted the oxycodone on hand incase I got in sever pain for some other reason in my future. I hadn't touched em.

Very true OP. Its quite sad. In the four years I was in high school, 2 people in my grade (plus one mom) and 4 or 5 people in my brothers died because of those reasons. Two of them I knew personally. One of them was an old childhood friend. Its terrible.
One of them was a little different. He was at a party and was high and fell in the lake. He drowned instead of overdosing I believe. But drugs were still at fault.
My friend committed suicide by overdosing. Ongoing boyfriend and cyber bullying problems. Its just so easy for troubled teens to get their hands on drugs these days. Its kinda scary.

I was at a funeral on Saturday and a number of the guests were recovering alcoholics/addicts as the deceased had live that life. (Years ago, he turned to hard drugs after his father, then wife, then mother all died in the same year. But he died of heart problems - possibly related to drinking/drugs, but maybe just diet & genetics.) It seemed as if many of these people were a bit too used to going to funerals. :/ I bet they all know a lot of addicts who've OD'd in the last couple years of this opiod epidemic.

Not sure if you people here are aware of this, but MASS amounts of the fentanyl that's killing people here is all coming from China. China's killing Canadians with this crap and pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly Billions - much of it laundered in our hyper inflated real estate market. There's been a series of articles out explaining who the major players are and how they're going about all of this. It's China's biggest organized crime group, The Big Circle Boys, who operate in conjunction with shady government officials. There's probably fentanyl coming from Mexican cartels and domestic supplies, but here, most of it - or the precursor chemicals - is coming from China & they're gov't doesn't seem to care.