| CURRENT EVENTS Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for 'work-life balance'

[TerryP]

It’s not just heroin that keeps Hart centered, he claims. The prof is also a fan of the effects brought on by MDMA (better known as Molly or ecstasy) and methamphetamine (a drug that has caused the most overdose deaths in nearly half the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). In describing MDMA, he recalled “intense feelings of pleasure, gratitude and energy.

It's interesting the way they frame this, "caused the most overdose deaths..." When you click on what's cited and read the numbers do you call this intellectual dishonesty? 13% overall, but "the most?"

The report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the agency’s first geographic breakdown of deaths by drug. It’s based on figures from 2017, when there were more than 70,000 overdose deaths in the US, two-thirds of them involving opioids.

Fentanyl was involved in 39 percent of the deaths that year, followed by heroin (23 percent) and cocaine (21 percent). Those drugs top the list in the eastern part of the country.

Methamphetamine was No. 4 nationwide, cited in 13 percent of overdose deaths. But in the four western regions, it was No. 1, at 21 percent to 38 percent.