The Opioid Epidemic - A.K.A The Crisis of Addiction

That's exactly what the first responders called it. No other way to describe it.

 

Heroin Giveaway Day by dealers in Camden
causes rash of ODs:

The paramedics were injecting naloxone into two people at a time.
It was 6 a.m. Wednesday on the streets of Camden, New Jersey and Death was attempting to claim 16 victims of the opioid crisis.

"We would get dispatched to a location and find two patients overdosed," Cooper EMS Chief Steve Hale said.
Hale's team typically sees nine drug overdoses in a day. Sixteen in just a little more than an hour stretched them to the limit.

He said the spike came from a bad batch of drugs given out by dealers during a so-called "free giveaway day."
Dealers will sometimes hand out free samples of heroin to drum up support for their product.

Drug users that NBC10 spoke with for our award-winning special report Generation Addicted about the heroin and opioid crisis explained how they would get up early in the morning and run to a corner where a dealer would throw free dime bags to the ground.

"If they give it free, people get hooked," Hale said.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...erdoses-in-1-Hour-on-Wednesday-439953353.html

 

and nothing to back it up

 

They're not people the way you or I are people. They're people like rich people are people. Or royalty.

 

Seven Days of Heroin in Cincinnati

 

The Amazing Jared's got this shot nailed down. He once copped weed behind the Short Hills Mall so he knows about addiction.

 

I lost a relative to a heroin overdose in 1999. People have overdosed outside my local library. I live in a wealthy county. It's really scary.

 

The main providers and over prescribers were arrested up here,and now the heroin overdoses are back.
#smh

 

Donald Trump today in a masterful presidential stroke to solve the Opioid problem says "Tell your kids, just say no!" That will solve that. Ask Nancy.

At the same time he ordered the Opioid "Opana" to be pulled from the market as of immediately. Today....maybe tomorrow. .

Perhaps somebody should have mentioned that FDA pulled Opana last June. Oops.

 

Addicts Who Can't Get Opioids Are Overdosing on a Diarrhea Drug

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/opioids-diarrhea-drugs-imodium/522195/

 

How shitty.

Story on the Sacklers who own Purdue Pharma. Didn't know anything about them but then saw that they donated the Temple of Dendur at the Met and have made a bunch of other gifts. All while keeping their link to Oxies a secret.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

 

The court system in this country is designed to trap people in perpetuity, and this is just another example.

Conditions of probation are so absurd that even a normal employed functioning member of society would have trouble. First they put a black mark on your record which makes you virtually unemployable. And you'll never get a rental lease. And then they place conditions that you have to piss in a cup every few days, meet your probation officers, court dates and attend mandatory 12 step classes in the evening. These conditions are often not flexible with set days and times you have to attend. This makes you even more unemployable because you have little scheduling flexibility. When you get out of jail you're usually destitute and now you have to zig zag across town every couple of days, most likely on public transport. And in many places you have to pay a fee for your 12 step classes and court fees. Now on top of being unemployed, you're placed in debt. Introduce just enough stress in a person's life that suddenly relapsing starts looking like a better option.

 

And, of course, you can't vote either.

 

I never understood that right. Does this "no voting" rule only apply to people on parole or to all people ever convicted for a felony even after their sentence has been served completely?

 

Depends on the state you live in or were convicted in - but they* try to make sure you can't vote for as long as possible

* well, one set of "they"s waaaaaay more than the other set.

 

Good. I won't be told I'm racist for caring now.

 

Not when you are constantly told this is a "white people" problem and that is why it gets attention.

Addiction does not see skin color.