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Examiner: Philadelphia had 35 drug overdoses in 5 days
Associated Press ^
| Dec 9, 2016 4:23 PM EST
| Errin Haines Whack
Posted on 12/09/2016 7:43:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Philadelphia medical examiner’s office says as many as 35 fatal drug overdoses over a recent five-day period might be part of a bigger problem: the national opioid crisis.
Philadelphia police and the medical examiner’s office are working to determine the cause of the overdoses and possible reasons for the spike in deaths.
“There are overdoses that occur every day and people don’t die,” said police spokesman Lt. John Stanford. “What’s coming to the forefront is the fact that people are overdosing and dying.”
A dozen people alone died from overdoses Dec. 1. Another four died the following day. That weekend seven died of overdoses on Saturday, another nine on Sunday and three on Monday. …
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TOPICS: US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: heroin; obamalegacy; opioids; overdose; philadelphia; wod; wosd
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:43:30 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
The CDC announced today that, in 2015, opiate OD deaths exceeded deaths caused by gun violence.
The alphabet soup agencies feel the Trumpalution in the wind.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:46:07 PM PST
by
lightman
( Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Vas is das? TRUMPALUTION!)
To: lightman
Trump is thinning the herd.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:47:07 PM PST
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: Olog-hai
Good. Maybe their loss will improve society. Losers.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:48:46 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: Olog-hai
"Bush's fault!! Trump's fault!
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:49:43 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: Olog-hai
Was watching a show on that “spice” garbage. People were flopping around on the sidewalk like fish after smoking it.
They said it came from China as an industrial chemical or something.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:51:08 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: hal ogen
I’m sure their families would appreciate that.
To: Olog-hai
Philadelphia was once called the City of Brotherly Love.
Today Philadelphia is the City of Brothers on Drugs.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:52:18 PM PST
by
detective
To: ilovesarah2012
What’s wrong with admitting an improvement of society?
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:53:48 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: Olog-hai
Well if they legalize drugs, addicts would just disappear and they wouldn’t have this problem. Support your local libertarian drug advocate!
To: lightman
The drug equivalent of being driven to drink? I’d be curious to see the demographics of the people most involved here. Probably not a lot of anybody who has a job.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:56:46 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: ilovesarah2012
I’m sure their families would appreciate that.
Hey, bro. It's called natural selection. There's no stopping it.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:56:58 PM PST
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: ilovesarah2012
I’m sure their families would appreciate that.
Hey, bro. It's called natural selection. There's no stopping it.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:57:16 PM PST
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
The problem might grow to the point that people would look for other answers than the law. Sometimes there is such a thing as trying to lock a society into a rubber room.
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posted on
12/09/2016 7:57:41 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/09/2016 8:03:40 PM PST
by
Eddie01
To: dynachrome
Actually this one is “Bushes fault”, with Jerkbama as an accessory after the fact.
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posted on
12/09/2016 8:03:45 PM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: Olog-hai
Was that before or after the election?
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posted on
12/09/2016 8:07:39 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: 867V309
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posted on
12/09/2016 8:09:12 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: Olog-hai
What drugs caused the overdoses? This is very important information.
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posted on
12/09/2016 8:21:17 PM PST
by
NetAddicted
(Just looking)
To: PLMerite
Narco-Darwinism. We have more addicts every year. So it proves Darwinism is false.
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