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Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues
Washington Post ^ | March 16, 2017

Posted on 03/18/2017 9:26:32 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

By about 3 p.m. Friday, a county morgue in east Ohio was already full — and more bodies were expected.

Rick Walters, an investigator for the Stark County coroner's office, had just left for two death scenes: a suicide and an overdose.

From the road, he called the director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency to ask for help. He needed more space, he explained — specifically, a cold-storage trailer to act as an overflow morgue.

As with much of the United States, Ohio is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic that shows no signs of abating.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: consequences; drugs; heroin; karma; ohio; opioid; poppies; victimlesscrime; wod
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To: Rashputin

You have a good knowledge of history eg Britian, China, cresent.

What historical books do you read??


161 posted on 03/19/2017 5:38:39 AM PDT by TheNext (REPEAL Slavery AND REPLACE with Slavery)
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To: knarf

I see it all the time.. trust me.. I see it in the morgue, I see it in drug testing.. stone cold facts. Drugs costs money, or other things, like prostitution. Why do you think welfare recipients sell their free food to convenience stores? The welfare we provide addicts with is being sold for drugs. They do have the money. I see it, ask your local LEO.


162 posted on 03/19/2017 5:39:33 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: momincombatboots

They probably also drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, gamble among a number of other things. For every pot smoker that ends up ODing, I can point to 50 that are still productive/mostly productive members of society. By making pot illegal, you are increasing the likelyhood that pot smokers end up using heroin (a pot dispensery or store that legally sells pot isn’t going to try to “upsell” you to heroin - a street dealer will)


163 posted on 03/19/2017 5:40:24 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: FreedomStar3028

“Pharmacists and doctors are the number one leading cause of opiate addiction. The drug dealers just reap the rewards of the health industry handing out narcotics like they are candy.”

The majority of addicts that I deal with, daily, don’t have doctors at all. You aren’t wrong about overprescription, but it isn’t the actual cause.


164 posted on 03/19/2017 5:40:31 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: momincombatboots

Well, I wonder if that trend varies by location. Because I have been told that directly by both the head of local law enforcement, and the director of the local social services agency.


165 posted on 03/19/2017 5:41:04 AM PDT by independentmind (In te Domine confido non confundar in aeternum)
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To: OrangeHoof

Have you personally known any people addicted to drugs, legal or illegal?


166 posted on 03/19/2017 5:41:07 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Post5203

This article is not about our youth. It is about middle-aged white women.LOL


167 posted on 03/19/2017 5:42:34 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: independentmind

Well.. I live and serve a working class community. I have also moved in the last year. I saw this in both states. I imagine the upper eschelons of society may not have it in this magnitude. So I suspect that may be a factor.


168 posted on 03/19/2017 5:45:19 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: Timpanagos1

Close the borders...execute drug dealers on the spot!


169 posted on 03/19/2017 5:45:27 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: Vendome

Yes. It became drug of choice because it is cheap. Cheap because it is virtually unimpeded.

Now we know what addictive drugs will do on an open market. A lot of people too stupid to say no.


170 posted on 03/19/2017 5:45:38 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: momincombatboots

The area I am talking about is mostly rural, but within 90 miles of DC.


171 posted on 03/19/2017 5:48:33 AM PDT by independentmind (In te Domine confido non confundar in aeternum)
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To: xzins

My ex wife gets a large script of Norco’s every month and sells them for about $4-$5 each. She doesn’t take them.


172 posted on 03/19/2017 5:48:46 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Trumpet 1
GD the pusher man by stepenwolf?

My favorite!

173 posted on 03/19/2017 5:50:34 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My once 6 pack abs are now a keg......)
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To: umgud

Free enterprise. Lol.

He’s kidding NSA...honest.


174 posted on 03/19/2017 5:50:50 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Vendome
"In the last 5 years opioid deaths have skyrocketed?"

All the libs that can't deal with Trump's election, don't cha know?

175 posted on 03/19/2017 5:54:54 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: mowowie

“I used to do a little
But a little wouldn’t do
And a little got more and more
Just keep tryin’ to get a little better
A little better than before
I’ve been dancin’ with Mister Brownstone
He’s been knockin’
He won’t leave me alone...”
(Guns & Roses tune)


176 posted on 03/19/2017 5:57:54 AM PDT by W. (Out with scum in government just there to steal our treasure!)
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To: PghBaldy

Yup. Read up the Opium Wars and what the globalists (same people, really) did to China. This is all part of the replacement plan for white European American stock. Take their jobs, destroy their communities, destroy their values and flood their gutted, hollowed out cities and towns with life destroying drugs and the sickness of addiction.


177 posted on 03/19/2017 6:00:32 AM PDT by riri
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To: independentmind

Probably insulated from it, then. I would trust my local LEO, so your lucky to live in a place where you don’t serve those in this particular circumstance. It is a terrible heartbreak. I find your situation odd still, as my husband prayed last week with a Doctor whose daughter was in federal prison for drugs. It might be a tsunami headed your way though. Much Love to our faithful first responders. If you do have to serve the addicts, someday, then serve them with tough but steadfast love.
Just remember, it isn’t your fault they are right back at it.


178 posted on 03/19/2017 6:06:31 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: Catmom

Yep ....pain is “whatever they say it is.”

Dude sitting there wolfing down a cheeseburger in the hospital bed gets his immediate dilaudid dose because he says his pain is a 10!!


179 posted on 03/19/2017 6:07:54 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Freedom56v2

You have completely missed the point. You asked sarcastically if Heroin is worst then Ebola. The point is that it isn’t worse than Fentanyl. Get it?

BTW, how many reports can you find of children who died from Heroin when it was marketed legally?


180 posted on 03/19/2017 6:13:48 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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