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UPDATE: 26 Heroin Overdoses in Huntington (West Virginia) on Monday
wowktv.com ^ | August 15, 2016 | wowk

Posted on 08/15/2016 7:20:18 PM PDT by Morgana

CABELL COUNTY, WV -

UPDATE: 8:46 p.m. 8/15/16

Cabell County EMS tells 13 News there were 26 overdoses in a four hour period on Monday.

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The Director of Drug Control Policy Jim Johnson tells 13 news there were 10 heroin overdoses in Huntington on Monday. The 10 overdoses reported happened over a 90 minute period.

Nobody died yet from the overdoses. Dispatchers report the overdoses happened at several locations in the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at tristateupdate.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: addiction; cabell; heroin; potheads; rural; westvirginia; wv2016
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Am so glad not to live in that messed up county any more.

Knew they had a drug problem but that is just C R A Z Y !

1 posted on 08/15/2016 7:20:18 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

The open border is killing us in SO many ways


2 posted on 08/15/2016 7:21:09 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Morgana

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia


3 posted on 08/15/2016 7:21:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Morgana

Holy crap this country is going down the sh*tter.


4 posted on 08/15/2016 7:22:58 PM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: struggle

In former Soviet Union, DOPE DOES YOU!


5 posted on 08/15/2016 7:23:54 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Every word the "News Media" prints these days are a lie, including "and" and "the".)
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To: Morgana

That is absolutely insane.


6 posted on 08/15/2016 7:24:38 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Morgana

Somebody forgot to cut it.


7 posted on 08/15/2016 7:26:23 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Morgana

A new batch must have come in.


8 posted on 08/15/2016 7:27:47 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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Blast it. Had been there been ten fatalities it would be like putting some bleach in the gene pool.


9 posted on 08/15/2016 7:29:46 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Morgana
More Drug War silliness.

Does anyone think all these overdoses were intentional?

As distasteful as de-criminalization may be to some people, it would have the advantage of reducing such accidental overdoses, and also that "not being Tyrannical" thing.

It's too bad that so many "small government conservatives" are advocates for Prohibition, which necessarily requires an expansive Nanny/Police State to enforce its self-righteous tenets.

Along with necessarily infringing on the Fourth Amendment, and necessarily creating black markets for organized crime to flourish, no-knock warrants, searches without probable cause, runaway asset forfeiture, and all of the other "necessary" Tyrannical measures which accrue when "saving People from themselves"...

10 posted on 08/15/2016 7:33:28 PM PDT by sargon (George Will is a RINO compromiser that devolved the GOP to the Uni-party leadership we have today.)
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To: Morgana

I was born & raised in Huntington. Last time I was there I observed huge sections of Adams Ave needed to be bulldozed & re-developed. My parents still live there & they live very cautiously now. I only miss the food: Gino’s, Stewarts & Snyder’s Potato chips :)

Vote Trump 2016


11 posted on 08/15/2016 7:39:30 PM PDT by TheStickman (Trump will be the 1st Pro America president since Reagan)
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To: Morgana

Puh-Leeeeze!

This is hardly, ‘News.’

Unless it was a Whitey Police Officer administering the fatal doses of heroin to these Black Yutes, this is a non-starter! Nobody cares!

And have I mentioned lately how much I HATE the America I’m currently living in and how I HATE what a cynical B!tch I’ve become?

(Lost a Nephew to Heroin. Lost a Husband to Opiates. Evil EVIL stuff! All of it!)


12 posted on 08/15/2016 7:43:11 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Please explain how a pile of powder can be “evil”.

Can a hunk of metal be “evil” as well?


13 posted on 08/15/2016 7:49:13 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: moovova
Somebody forgot to cut it.

Bingo

14 posted on 08/15/2016 7:49:20 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: sargon

I am sure you know that this is a problem when heroin which hasn’t been cut as much as normal makes it out on the street. We used to see this fairly often when I was working. There is very little quality control in criminal enterprises. Only we usually had at least a couple dead ones when there were that many. Then we wouldn’t see much activity for a while.

I do not agree that the answer is legalization. Providing easier access to more consistent heroin would increase the population of idiot losers by simple supply and demand and especially the perceived safety. Right now many people are discouraged from using heroin because of the risks involved. Users who drop over dead send the only kind of message many of the idiots in our midst actually understand.


15 posted on 08/15/2016 7:50:34 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: moovova
they prolly cut it alright, wi fentanyl
16 posted on 08/15/2016 7:59:28 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: moovova

Yep.


17 posted on 08/15/2016 8:02:31 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Chode

You got that right. Wait till they start messing around with carfentanil.

Three mgs and its lights out forever.


18 posted on 08/15/2016 8:11:04 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: sargon

Maybe the supplier provided something that was too powerful.


19 posted on 08/15/2016 8:17:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: fireman15

The flipside is that getting people to rehab would be much easier, all aspects of it being as much in the open as alcohol rehab is. Half of the difficulty in rehab is the lies.


20 posted on 08/15/2016 8:19:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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