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.
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I agree. It is a concerted effort to control (white) people, it seems. Obama let out black drug dealers, but at same time all of these stories about mostly white druggies appeared, including pictures of dead people. There are not doing this out of compassion or concern for us. Both parties are doing it, it is an obvious scheme to influence and control people. Not sure what the goals are, but I know it will make it even harder for people to get the help they need since the police state will naturally extend their grip on doctors, pharmacists and sick people.
“In the last 5 years opioid deaths have skyrocketed?”
Isn’t that what they’re saying is happening in New England? It’s so bad there that it became a campaign issue this past election! https://www.justbelieverecoverypa.com/drug-overdose-new-england/
Further south, in New Jersey, overdose deaths are up 214% in 6 years: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/12/overdose_deaths_skyrocket_in_nj_as_opioid_epidemic_continues_its_boom.html
It surprises you that drug use and death skyrocketed during the Obama years? It shouldn't.
It seems odd to me that in 2017 that there are so very many people who still do not know that Heroin is evil. Has not any one heard the song GD the pusher man by stepenwolf?! Is the inner city that pathetic? Or Am I missing out on the real picture here?! Did Duane Allman really weigh just 75 lbs at the time of his death from H addiction on a motorcycle crash?!
That old victimless crime again.
If only America would give up that war on drugs everything would be unicorns and rainbows.
Where are the paultards today anyway?
Shouldn’t they be on this thread explaining that these people are only dead because drugs are illegal, not because they screw your health up?
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.
Porous borders and an incompetent, nefarious Obama presidency to blame. Him and Jorge Busho. Also thanks to a RINO Congress that enabled all the above.
Umm from Afghanistan?? Don’t think Opium comes from Mexico. Something has to fund the War you know.
Damn you, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump! /s
You are another glorious product of the reformation aren’t you? So smug and secure in your being “saved” so convinced of another’s damnation. FU.
natural selection buy all the trailers we need.
Wash Posthole. More fake news. Increase DEA enforcement in everyones lives. Make it hard for normal people to get pain medication. Create a crises. Fake News.
Freedom’s a bitch. I guess you’ll ell us how that war on drugs is WINNING.
I admit to mixed emotions.
Don't get caught. ;)
Isn’t killing your customer base a bad business model?
Yup.
1: oxycontin is harder to snort, and harder to get.
2: the government is shaking down doctors the prescribe too much painkillers
3: heroin has become VERY cheap compared to a decade ago.
Opioids—prescription and illicit—are the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Opioids were involved in 33,091 deaths in 2015, and opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 1999.
In 2015, the five states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (41.5 per 100,000), New Hampshire (34.3 per 100,000), Kentucky (29.9 per 100,000), Ohio (29.9 per 100,000), and Rhode Island (28.2 per 100,000).
Well, aren’t you a sweetheart!
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