Making the world better, one answer at a time. In the state of Washington, the average annual pay for a welder is $32,000. This works out to be $2,666.he  average salary in the US for pipeline welders in 2014 is $64,778;  the average (for the same time period) i â¦ n San Francisco is $74,857.
âMost of the heroin users now, their first opioid exposures are the prescription drugs. Thatâs true for at least 80 percent of todayâs heroin addicts,â Compton said. âThatâs very different than 30 or 40 years ago, when the first opioid was heroin.â. Read More: Concerns Raised Over Prescriptions Given to Seniors Â».
But by 2002, opioid. analgesics were listed in 5528 (36.5%) deaths, more. than either cocaine or heroin. Opioids were listed. without cocaine or heroin in 4451 (29.4%) deaths that. year,morethanthecombinednumberofdeathslisting. either cocaine alone (2569) or heroin alone (1061). This increaseâin âopioids without heroin or. cocaineââaccounted for half of the overall increase. in the drug poisoning deaths in 1999â2002.