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Obama, Red States and the Opioid Crisis: Coincidence or Connection?
The Coach's Team ^ | 1/6/18 | Suzanne Eovaldi

Posted on 01/06/2018 8:15:05 AM PST by Oldpuppymax

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To: libertylover

Who does drugs because of who is governor of their state?


21 posted on 01/06/2018 9:39:57 AM PST by Joe Dallas
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To: Oldpuppymax

People have been looking at this all wrong. I had a doctor tell me that because of new restrictions, he had to cut people off of painkillers. Then more than a few of those people ended up on street heroin. Its time to build a DMZ along the Mexican border and use it for military training. We have to attack the cartels like we are attacking ISIS.


22 posted on 01/06/2018 9:40:37 AM PST by se_ohio_buckwye
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To: Joe Dallas

Joe in Dallas....go to the hood, buy a cheap bag and try it. Ride the dragon.
Then you can tell me about it.
There is a crisis for a multitude of reasons.

BHO opened the floodgates against America one more time.


23 posted on 01/06/2018 9:40:40 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Joe Dallas

Hell, the people who do drugs probably don’t even KNOW who is governor of their state.

But the author was trying to make a point that drug problems are worse in “Red” states and I called BS.


24 posted on 01/06/2018 9:44:01 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: 2banana

Obama & his Democrat Party “hate America” ilk tried their utmost effort to destroy the American Republic. He, herded African-Americans onto his Democrat controlled, big city ghettos economic slave plantations, where he kept them in poverty, with drugs & booze, with no decent jobs, lousy education or opportunities. He did exactly the same with industrial & manufacturing, middle class workers and their families. He worked to kill and destroy both small and large businesses of both Whites and Black folks, and other minorities.

Obama was what he is today, A Kenyan, Radical Muslim, America Hater, like his drunk, womanizer father was. They come from a long line of West African Slave & Sex Traders & Sex Traffic brokers, going back hundreds of years. How do you think Sub-Saharan Africans became Slaves. Thank the Obama heritage from his family. By the way, the slave and sex traffic trade continues unabated in Kenya and other west coast African countries.

The real joke is how African-Americans actually supported this guy...Go figure!!! Trump has done more for Black Americans in one year then Obama has done in his entire life. Case closed.


25 posted on 01/06/2018 9:44:55 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: huldah1776

Hah! That was their problem wasn’t it? They distributed them where they wanted them but they all fled to LA where the Beast won by 3 million votes, but lost the EC. If those damn refugees had only stayed where they were put!


26 posted on 01/06/2018 9:45:18 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: Paladin2

I don’t think that’s fair. Mr. Sessions has been tuned in to the opioid and concurrent gang problem from the beginning. It’s probably not surprising he is preparing to address MJ as well.


27 posted on 01/06/2018 9:47:37 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: himno hero

The only reason for the drug crisis is that weak minded people lack self control and become addicted to drugs.


28 posted on 01/06/2018 9:48:08 AM PST by Joe Dallas
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To: himno hero

And, of course, now we know Obama ordered a stand down on investigation of Hezbollah’s running drugs into the US.


29 posted on 01/06/2018 9:49:25 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: Joe Dallas

You can put the blame on the individual, but the fact is wherever massive supplies of cheap opium are made available, people will succumb and some will die. Look at China in the 18th and 19th centuries. The UK forced China to accept it by the boatload and went to war to force it on them when they finally tried to say no. Then people walked around saying what a degenerate race the Chinese were. I believe THAT is remembered very well culturally over there and that they rather enjoy seeing the US flooded with drugs.


30 posted on 01/06/2018 9:53:11 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: libertylover

I thought the author was saying that under Osama these states were TARGETED for extra attention in making sure they suffered worse.


31 posted on 01/06/2018 9:55:18 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: Joe Dallas

Maybe we should just shoot them.


32 posted on 01/06/2018 9:58:14 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: Joe Dallas

Joe, do your homework!
Go to the Dallas hood, get a bag of treats and try it! Then tell me about it!
Heroin is very addictive.
Opoid addictions start in many places. Simple prescriptions.
Again do your homework.

Try to stay away from the personal experience down in the hood.
Stats on heroin addiction from first time use are very high.... and it has taken down bigger men than you.
Guaranteed.


33 posted on 01/06/2018 9:58:25 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: himno hero

“Heroin is very addictive.”

Heroin is only additive if you elect to use heroin.


34 posted on 01/06/2018 10:12:27 AM PST by Joe Dallas
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To: Oldpuppymax

“It’s odd how statistics showing the escalating opioid crisis show the same yearly growth during the waning years of the Obama administration! “

By the time of Obama’s waning years it’s no wonder so many were resorting to drugs, booze, etc to dull the pain.


35 posted on 01/06/2018 10:44:15 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“#11: “Rip van Sessions”
LOL. Good one! “

Jeff van Winkel.


36 posted on 01/06/2018 10:47:04 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: libertylover

“Almost half are Democrats in those elections. And if you look at the governors they are overwhelmingly Democrat.”

Sen. Joe Munchit.


37 posted on 01/06/2018 10:48:19 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Joe Dallas

Most of the current opioid addiction today is based initially in prescription products. Go look it up.
It doesn’t have to be heroin.
It can be fentanyl and other products.... then the street is another supply route.

Obama and this brethren were in the heart of the traditional opioids. Procurement, importation, distribution... and along with this came cocaine. All illegal. All criminal. All to the detriment of America.


38 posted on 01/06/2018 11:03:08 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Theoria

I bet the suicide rates drop for 2017. Won’t be able to tell sometimes if the overdose was accidental.


39 posted on 01/06/2018 12:42:39 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: himno hero

I don’t want to go out on a limb here, but it could be that there was cocaine, opioids and addiction in the country prior to 2009.


40 posted on 01/06/2018 2:59:58 PM PST by Joe Dallas
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