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

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  1. Dr. Wankler

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    #151 Dr. Wankler, Dec 23, 2017
    Addiction doesn't. But compassion, along with calls for treatment rather than jail time? That sure as hell did.
     
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  2. Cascarino's Pizzeria

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    #152 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Dec 23, 2017
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    No, but the reaction to it does.

    I'll bet you anything if this was mainly a Newark problem (crack 25 yrs ago) and not a Livingston problem (Christie's hometown) we would not be seeing a zillion of these commercials.

     
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  3. stanger

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    #153 stanger, Dec 23, 2017
    My response was very much TIC.
     
  4. soccernutter

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    #154 soccernutter, Dec 23, 2017
    The phrasing reads that he is glad Blacks are not getting hooked on opioids so that he won't be called out for racism. It really could have been phrased it much, much better.

    TIC?
     
  5. superdave

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    #155 superdave, Dec 23, 2017
    Tongue in cheek

    You are the most humorless person on here.
     
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  6. LastBoyscout

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    #156 LastBoyscout, Dec 23, 2017
    What, treat drug addiction like a healthcare problem like the rest of the western world? What are you people? Communists?!
     
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  7. Dr. Wankler

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    #157 Dr. Wankler, Dec 23, 2017
    What can we say: we hate America.
     
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  8. soccernutter

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    #158 soccernutter, Dec 23, 2017
    The post was made by a guy who says he talks with his Black co-workers (or something similar) therefore he's not a racist - and I have see nothing to change my view point on him.
     
  9. soccernutter

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    #159 soccernutter, Dec 23, 2017
    Post 93 gives an interesting perspective on how to treat, um, dependency?
     
  10. VFish

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    #160 VFish, Dec 23, 2017
    No worries, Dave is just trying to assure himself he isn’t the most humorless person on the board.
     
  11. soccernutter

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    #161 soccernutter, Dec 23, 2017
    Oh, I own that when it comes to race and racism, I am fairly humorless, because of how seriously I take racism.
     
  12. stanger

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    #162 stanger, Dec 23, 2017
    Really.
     
  13. VFish

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    #163 VFish, Dec 23, 2017
    Well Dave is still the most humorless person in these parts regardless of the topic.
     
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  14. Timon19

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    #164 Timon19, Dec 23, 2017
    TBF, you're not far behind.

    TBF also, I'm sure I'm pretty high up that list from time to time.
     
  15. Timon19

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    #165 Timon19, Dec 23, 2017
    I think it's headdesk time.
     
  16. stanger

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    #166 stanger, Dec 23, 2017
    Or maybe kittens after he posts.
     
  17. Timon19

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    #167 Timon19, Dec 23, 2017
    I'll take ferrets before cats.
     
  18. Dr. Wankler

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    #168 Dr. Wankler, Dec 23, 2017
    Ferrets vs. cats: that really should be a thing. Full contact cage matches, etc.
     
  19. stanger

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  21. russ

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    #171 russ, Dec 24, 2017
    What ever happened to sucking it up, accepting that pain is part of life,and finding comfort we will be eventually pain-free in the arms of Jesus?
    Repent!
     
  22. Cascarino's Pizzeria

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    #172 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Dec 24, 2017
    See our massive incarceration rates. We hafta stay exceptional here in 'Merica.

    And those Christie commercials crack me up. No, not cause he had lapband surgery on our dime and is still King Kong-sized. But the implication that prescription opioids just appeared magically in Whitelandia's medicine cabinets with no assistance from doctors & BIG pharma.
     
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    #173 roadkit, Dec 24, 2017
    Being forced to suck off a priest when you're 12 kind of destroys the whole "things will be awesome in heaven with Jesus" thing.
     
  24. russ

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    #174 russ, Dec 24, 2017
    Always the priests...what about the music and youth worship arts ministers in the Evangs.Not a predator among them,amirite?

    Splitter!
     
  25. sitruc

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    #175 sitruc, Dec 24, 2017
    Just how much does POTUS like Duterte?
     
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