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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Also, having no sympathy is tantamount to being unwilling to forgive, which is not Christian.
Where I live in Maryland heroin is an epidemic. I got a chance to sit on a jury for a dealer and we fried his ass.
Yes, yes it does!
Except for the bullet holes, of course.
Disparate impact will be the argument the black SJWs will use, for dope dealing is racially well out of proportion.
Disparate impact is no why crack cocaine weight is the same as powdered cocaine, although it was the drug predominately favored and sold in the black community. Heroin has outpaced it now by leaps and bounds, but in urban communities, the story is by and large, whites go into city to buy heroin from black dealers.
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Heroin mostly comes in in shipping containers, not so much from Mexico.
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