Posted on 09/09/2016 12:56:49 PM PDT by PROCON
Full title: Wasted: Horrifying photos of parents passed out by school bus after overdosing in their car with four-year-old boy in the backseat reveal the terrible toll of the opioid epidemic sweeping America
A police department in Ohio has shared on Facebook disturbing photos of a man and woman passed out in a car with a toddler in the backseat after the pair had allegedly overdosed on heroin.
The unsettling images appeared on the City of East Liverpool's social media page on Thursday.
Officials say they decided to make the photos public to raise awareness of the heroin epidemic in the state, and also to try and deter people from using drugs while having children in their care.
Addiction to opioids such as heroin, morphine, fentanyl and codeine in the US has reached the proportions of a full-blown epidemic in recent years.
In Ohio, which has been among the states hardest hit by the overdose epidemic, there were 3,000 unintentional drug overdoses last year, at an average of eight per day.
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So are they dead or just passed out?
Reason number 1,999,999 to build the wall on the Mexican border.
Yeah that really hits you in the gut to see that young, innocent, helpless child sitting there.
This is another thing we can thank teamobama for. I was shocked to see how herion has been on the rise since he has been in office.
They also have made more homeless too. Look at Los Angeles.
Plus invaders. He has transformed us.
This is another thing we can thank teamobama for. I was shocked to see how heroin has been on the rise since he has been in office. Said heroin from his Taliban pals in Afghanistan?
They also have made more homeless too. Look at Los Angeles. 200mil for 10 year project to help homeless....now way more than when they started.
Plus invaders. He has transformed us.
They survived and were arrested.
Don’t think this isn’t in your community folks. I live in a well off area, and heroin addiction and overdoses are increasing at an alarming rate. Moreover, prescription drug use is reaching epidemic levels, and that spills into all classes. When some can’t get their opiates, they turn to street drugs. Alcoholism and abuse is also a MAJOR problem in this country, and it seems to be getting worse. If your friends, family, or yourself think you are drinking too much, you are.
Passed out, soon to be arrested.
look at the meathook on that lady good lord
Looks a little bit like Bonnie and Clyde, doesn’t it?
Yet, there is no shortage of Jay-Birds who will insist drugs are a victimless crime.
I think it is Geddy Lee from Rush.
When I see and talk to EMT’s in the grocery store, they say that drug overdoses are the main calls they get nowadays.
FWIW, East Liverpool is a small city of 11,200 near where the borders of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania meet.
They’re just passed out.
Mommy and Daddy are so happy they need to take a nap. They just dosed up a bit early... or the school bus was late.
.........and the firing squad did their job??????????
I’m not saying it is victimless. I’m saying that the loss of our freedoms outweighs the benefits in the WOD.
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