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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“Unless you kill all the humans, which is basically where your logic must necessarily lead, had you thought it through at all.”
You may want to read post 4 where I state that culture and self-control are both a large part of the opioid epidemic.
Each of us can take measures to teach ourselves and our children self-control in many areas we can modify our culture so that our children and other people’s children do not turn to opioids.
There is a personality type that has a hard time coping with life and its difficulties. This type will become addicted to whatever is available, be it opiods or alcohol.
“Are there an extreme number of people in Ohio without self-control or something?”
Well, we do know that humans in Ohio do not feel pain worse the humans in Texas.
Ohio has a far higher use of opioids than Texas and I’m guessing back pain in Ohio is just as bad as it is in Texas.
However, I have never heard a doctor give their patient that diagnosis of “Small Town Ohio Back Pain.”
Therefore, it is something about the cultures of Ohio, West Virginia, North Dakota, and Massachusetts that make pain more significant than the back pain in Wisconsin, California and Colorado.
“There is a personality type that has a hard time coping with life and its difficulties.”
But why does that personality type found in clusters in certain states?
I’m with you, brother.
You are right on every point.
However, what makes you and I smart enough to stay away from that crap while our neighbors eat it like M&M’s?
Are we that much smarter or do we just have better discipline?
This is the same area written about in the book “Hillbilly Elegy.” Many people in this area migrated from some of the bleakest parts of Kentucky.
“Many people in this area migrated from some of the bleakest parts of Kentucky.”
That would indicate that it is a cultural problem.
It’s them deplorable bourgeois types and their lack of self control obviously. They love to preach their family values but really they’re hypocrites. They’d rather build a wall than face the failure of their own character. Trump’s wall is pointless as long as red voting crackers create demand for the junk.
Right?
If you read the Book of AA you’ll find this in the Doctors Opinion page XXV “”We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.””
Then we look at what a physical allergy is. “”A physical allergy is an allergic reaction triggered by a physical stimulus. A physical allergy differs from other allergic reactions because the trigger is a physical stimulus. Physical stimuli include the following: Cold. Sunlight.””
Some peoples reaction to drugs or alcohol differ greatly from others. Many try both and walk away, others due to the reaction simply want more. Sugar, salt, and various foods can have the same reaction.
Military planes bringing it in by the ton? Not likely at all.
My father volunteers with hospice. He delivers hospital beds and home care supplies at four in the morning, because if the junkies see a hospital bed being delivered, the house becomes a target. They know that if they see that bed, the house has Oxy.
Even with terminal cancer patients, the drug still gets to the market.
You got in Texas. It is just better concealed, and maybe you are not quite so far down the road.
With every phenomenon, there is a distribution. Some areas will be more effected early than others. Just their bad luck. But it all evens out, over time.
To a certain extent, economic despair opens the door. Idle hands are the Devil’s playthings, as they used to say. But this door will get opened everywhere, eventually.
The kid in the story was a recovering addict with an infection from contaminated needles. The doctors prescribed him opiates for the pain, even though they knew he was an addict, and sent him home. Poor kid never had a chance.
Notice the article leaves out the obvious, if religion was in their lives.
How do you propose we modify the culture of Appalachia in order to bring opioid deaths under control, and who will be in charge of modifying it?
Heroin is bad enough but it’s the fentanyl that makes it a game of Russian Roulette. It’s out of control in Canada:
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.macleans.ca/society/inside-the-history-of-canadas-opioid-crisis/amp/
Bingo. The US does not have any crisis. Like many words in the English language, the word crisis has been re-defined to mean
I am addicted to money and want to get money from you by using the addiction of others to opiods as a tug at your heartstrings.
I was prescribed some a few years ago... made me sick to my stomach.. so never really took more than a couple. I never noticed the “high” though...
I had an oral surgeon insist I take a prescription after a procedure; I assured him I wouldn’t fill it anyway, but he replied that he couldn’t call it in if I had second thoughts later. I took the prescription but never filled it.
'Seems to have followed very closely upon the malfeasance of the Obama regime and the Deep State.
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