Posted on 08/06/2017 10:41:29 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
Beth Genslinger doesn’t fit the stereotype of a victim of a drug epidemic. She thoughtfully sets out glasses of water for her guests before they arrive and wears a teacher’s warm, open smile: She retired from Valley View Junior High right before her granddaughter was born, after 33 years of teaching. Her husband was an insurance agent and, to his children’s friends, a formidable breakfast chef.
Their son, Andy, died of a heroin overdose in October 2015. The same thing happened to his cousin Daniel Weidle less than three months later, the day after Christmas. A third cousin had died after a battle with opioids in 2005.
The Genslingers live in Germantown, Ohio, a close-knit country community nine miles north of Middletown on Ohio State Route 4. The median family income here exceeds $50,000; less than 6 percent of the population is under the poverty line. These houses have porches, and their porches have flags. Beth grew up here. Her parents live right next door; they have now lost three grandchildren. The family is what a neighbor calls “preeminent” in the community.
The opioid epidemic does not discriminate. Unlike crack or meth, there is no single cultural profile. National statistics suggest that more men than women use, and the demographic is largely white. But the rich are affected almost as much as the poor, those with college degrees alongside high school dropouts.
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The opioid epidemic, like most diseases, will reach its limit. The market always has its limits. I expect it will reach its limits because the fools running the war on this epidemic are total clowns and many are bought off by the CEOs of the illegal drug industry. These limits will have most of America with the monkey on their back. America will be a third world nation under a dictatorship.
When you have military aircrafts bringing in heroin by the ton into McCord Air Force Base, you have idiots and people on the take. When you have police chiefs and drug enforcement officers being paid off, you have idiots letting themselves become compromised for their own fat bank accounts. When you have mayors lining their pockets with drug money and city officials orchestrating the distribution network, we are a sorry nation with their thumbs up where the sun does not shine. Enjoy the feel because there will be hell to pay.
Not something I understand.
No sympathy for anyone claiming chronic pain. I struggle with most steps a n d have for years.
The opioid epidemic has nothing to do with pain, and everything to do with culture and self-control.
If the opioid epidemic were about pain, the geographic distribution of opioid addiction would be evenly distributed as humans that suffer from pain are evenly distributed over all geographic regions.
That is all true, but without a market for heroin, there would be no Demand for heroin and there would be no incentive to Supply heroin.
I labeled the millenials as the beheadable millenials because they are weak and stand no chance against islam. Looks like their weakness is making them off themselves instead. With drugs, a victimful crime.
There has always been a heroin market.
The heroin market pre-exists... whatever.
“The market seems to have no limits.”
The market does have limits but I don’t think the market potential for heroin has been reached.
However, I don’t know what percentage of the population lack the control mechanisms that prevent them from making good decisions and have an addictive personality.
“There has always been a heroin market.”
The market for opioids has grown, the severity of physical pain has not increased.
People get addicted to opioids not because they are in pain, but because they are junkies.
What an ignorant fool you must be to make that remark.
Opiates have “solved” all man’s troubles since recorded history.
But history means nothing to fools.
> That is all true, but without a market for heroin
Always going to be someone who wants it, thus there will always be a market for it.
Unless you kill all the humans, which is basically where your logic must necessarily lead, had you thought it through at all.
> People get addicted to opioids not because they are in pain, but because they are junkies.
Wait, wut?
GTFO newbie, you’re embarrassing us. Your IQ must be this tall to participate here and you failed to make the cut.
You are an evil person and tyranny is in your blood. You are the enemy - go away.
False.
Almost 70% of opioid-related Emergency Room visits are billed to Medicaid.
Most of these folks are very poor.
Also, about half of prescription pill opioid deaths are suicides, and the other half of prescription pill deaths are caused by the certifiably insane decision to consume opioid pills with alcohol and other narcotics.
Also, the “opioid epidemic” that has suddenly emerged from nowhere is bogus.
The number of opioid deaths has been incrementally increasing for more than 10 years.
In my opinion, this is a politically manufactured “epidemic.”
When the death rate (from all causes) did not decrease after ObamaCare began, and the death rate fractionally increased in 2016, the Democrats and the MSM reached for the first good excuse they could find - the “opioid epidemic,” which, of course, requires MORE ObamaCare!
Heroin is no longer a lower class problem. Also no longer a millennial problem. All ages and races are getting crushed by Heroin. We haven’t had a deadly drug to come along since alcohol that reaches equally to all people.
Exactly. I do not see a good outcome.
Trust me. If drug dealers brought in a new drug tomorrow called Heroin, there would be addicts almost immediately.
The pharmacy that sells Oxycodone LIED about its addictive effects. It’s already paid 600 million in fines with MANY more to come.
People need to do SOME research on this subject before commenting.
ALSO, Oxy was originally ONLY for cancer patients but then the powers that be got greased enough to make basically synthetic heroin available for EVERYONE.
You unknowingly take a brutally addictive drug, then get addicted, then years later, when congress, only because they’re afraid of losing their jobs, makes it near impossible to get oxy, you turn to heroin, which is MUCH cheaper and easier to get.
Roxys go for 40 dollars a pill.
12 years ago I was offered 2000 dollars for a bottle of Roxys I had. I said no. I dont sell death.
It cost ME 5 bucks because I only had a copay.
How many people are going to say no to a multi thousand percent profit?
Not enough.
And now that they’re near impossible to get (except from law breaking doctors who sell scripts) heroin is the replacement drug of choice.
For some reason, the most I ever got was a 5 or 10 minute high off of them, and even I knew that WASN’T NORMAL to get that feeling from a SAFE DRUG!!
Stopped using rather quickly cause it didn’t help the pain at all and those 10 minute highs scared me.
“Opiates have “solved” all man’s troubles since recorded history.”
What?
All along I-40 there are pain management clinics that seem to be nothing more than prescription drug dealers.
Are there an extreme number of people in Ohio without self-control or something?
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