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1 posted on 02/26/2017 6:05:01 AM PST by Religion and Politics
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I don’t hear democrats crying and protesting about this.


2 posted on 02/26/2017 6:07:51 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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The rats have allowed drug gangs to conduct business freely and kill the youth of this nation. All it takes is one stupid time and your done! Trump cleaning up the gangs and drugs is a start, jobs and seeing a future is another. A long hard road


3 posted on 02/26/2017 6:10:49 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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Gun fatalities are certainly not under-reported. Heroine fatalities almost certainly are. The problem is worse than stated.

I saw this coming forty years ago, as attitudes and morals crumbled with my generation coming of age. Clinton, Obama, and Rather are both symptoms and cause. The boomers have totally screwed up this country and left an irreparable mess for coming generations.


6 posted on 02/26/2017 6:23:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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We should make them illegal!

Saw a good documentary on Fentanyl on Netflix. What a mess.

These are the ‘homeless’ people you see at your local train station.


7 posted on 02/26/2017 6:26:30 AM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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Well, then, there can only be one set of solutions:

  1. There shall be a NICS check for anyone wishing to purchase opioids.
  2. High-capacity 'Assault Opioids' shall be banned as 'drugs of war'.
  3. Small-dose 'concealable Saturday Night Special' opioids shall be banned.
  4. Only one pill may be purchased per month.
  5. You must store all your opioids in a safe, and authorities must be allowed to inspect.
  6. You may not 'stockpile an arsenal' of opioids. Only three pills are allowed in your certified drug safe.
  7. You may not own opioids that are colored black.
  8. There is a 3-to-10 day waiting period between perscription and reciept of your painkillers.
IF IT SAVES *ONE* *LIFE*, it's WORTH IT!!!

Signed,

The Brady Campaign to Ban Painkillers.

8 posted on 02/26/2017 6:30:07 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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The article blames over-prescribing of pain meds in the 90’s and 2000’s as the cause of the problem. What else happened in this time frame? NAFTA and an increasingly porous southern border. This allows massive quantities of heroin to get into the country (its not being produced domestically). I remember reading stories about heroin starting to become cheap and readily available during the 90’s. Right around the time the border started weakening. If the heroin wasn’t so prevalent, the OD deaths would not be happening anywhere near as often. But the PC types can’t make this connection (open border = heroin deaths) because that would be ‘Racist’. It’s easier to blame it on the doctor (easily stereotyped as an old, rich white guy) pushing pills on his unsuspecting patient.


9 posted on 02/26/2017 6:32:01 AM PST by nhbob1
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=>"How Obamacare Is Fueling America's Opioid Epidemic"
19 posted on 02/26/2017 7:03:40 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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“That’s all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood.”

— Clemenza


22 posted on 02/26/2017 7:05:22 AM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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Wait til the Nanny-Staters can't get their pain meds because they squealed for fedgov to 'Do Something' about the overdoses.

Remember pseudo-ephedrine? Screw the nannies.

24 posted on 02/26/2017 7:11:11 AM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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I can’t say I would believe these numbers to be accurate, like the 1 in six children are starving. I do not believe as I know more than 6 children, none of them are starving...

You have to thin the herd some how....


28 posted on 02/26/2017 7:28:05 AM PST by Pilated (.)
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I know this is a problem but I know an 80 year old who basically bedridden who has horrible constant pain. Opioids take away a little bit of the pain. There is nothing else that does anything. They keep cutting down on the dose and making it harder and harder for her to get some relief. When she asks for more help they just shrug their shoulders and say their hands are tied with the new regulations.


34 posted on 02/26/2017 8:25:45 AM PST by skyman
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Nothing more than the herd thinning itself. /s


35 posted on 02/26/2017 8:29:55 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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Uh huh but pale in comparison to deaths by abortion, alcohol and tabbaco


38 posted on 02/26/2017 10:12:38 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you an2d to save you, He will.)
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You can have my opioids when you pry them from my cold dead fingers! Opioids don't kill, people abusing opioids kill!

Sorry, I know that there are people out there with addictive personalities, and they abuse opioids and some die, but come on, those people will always find a drug or beverage to abuse and some will die, always.

There are too many people that need the use of pain meds to just get through the day and do manage to use them without abuse or addiction.

Humans throughout time have found or invented ways to get stoned and there have been and always will be those that abuse them.

39 posted on 02/26/2017 10:44:05 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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They really need to ban opoids/s


41 posted on 02/26/2017 12:04:23 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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Years ago,young and in need of $$$,I signed up for a research study at a major medical school.It involved getting an IV infusion of Valium,Morphine and a placebo on successive visits.It was "double blind" meaning that neither I,nor the doctor,knew which one I was getting.

But I knew.

With the placebo I felt no different.

With the Valium I felt sleepy.

With the morphine I started to york my guts out.

I can't understand being a morphine addict.A food addict I can understand.But not morphine.

42 posted on 02/26/2017 12:23:31 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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