Posted on 12/18/2016 7:33:25 AM PST by pabianice
The story fit the grim emerging genre of the opioid epidemic: addicted caregivers who imperil their young children, their very public failings instantly held up for excoriation on social media. Tamara and Jacob had abruptly been added to a national tableau, fused in the popular imagination with the Ohio couple slowly turning blue in their SUV while a 4-year-old watched from his carseat; the Milwaukee pair revived with Narcan in front of the woman’s 2-year-old son; the woman who overdosed in the toy aisle of a Lawrence dollar store, while her toddler wailed and pulled at her arm.
Much less visible are the lives behind the headlines, especially of those who are trying to help the broken get whole again, and to bring life and hope to the children.
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No, meth is.
Leftism is the worst thing in the world.
Sometimes natural selection isn’t very pretty.
Drug dealers should be locked up for life, and drug users should have all public assistance funds cut-off.
Hang the dealers or shoot on sight.
That should say “Illegal heroin” instead of “Heroin” since heroin was a common active ingredient in cough syrups, analgesics and sleep remedies sold everywhere, that millions, including children took when America was the actual land of the free.
What I’ve heard is that crack is instantly addicting. Don’t know myself but I think any of these hardcore drugs are destructive. It’s just a matter of how long they take to kill you.
No doubt that heroin is a bad substance, but I think alcohol is just as bad. Both can kill you if you consume more than your body can tolerate. Just as both can, and often do, destroy entire families.
Tough. There isn’t a single person who starts using drugs that says, “Man, this will make me allll bettterererer!”
Everyone knows how messed up drugs are. Everyone.
As the other poster said, natural selection isn’t pretty.
We should turn take Cuba and turn it into a giant mental health Clinic.
Make it all available legally and at market prices in 5 pound sacks at Safeway and Wal Mart. The idiots will kill them selves off in about 60 days. Run some end loaders down the streets and dump the corpses into landfills.
Then the rest of us can go on with our lives without this stupid, counterproductive, and unconstitutional “war” on some drugs.
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maybe it has something to do with.........open borders?????
ring-a-ling Clue Phone.....it’s for you
There is nothing natural about this poison being deliberately targeted at our people. Especially the young and the chronically depressed
Especially when it’s your child or family member
Sorry, that would be Islam or Socialism, heroin can't hold a candle.
This makes Duterte seem like a sensible guy. Round up the dealers and shoot them. Watch the supply dry up.
How far is a trip from Cuba to Florida on water? If people go by rafts, probably not so far.
I do child abuse cases in Missouri. Meth is destroying the ability of the parents to give a crap about the kids. They would rather be a meth head than a parent. Then, the Oxycontin—red flag that they are using meth then oxy to sleep. Meth is hard to test for, but you can know it when you see it. It goes out of the system fast.
Well, the vast majority of it is coming from Mexico across that wide open border, so... heck, maybe it’s deliberate. Liberals always accused the CIA of funneling drugs into the inner cities to kill off blacks. Maybe it’s the other way around: Heroin being directed into the heartland to kill off blue-collar whites.
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