[CodeToad]

To be old and wise one must first survive being young and stupid.

[Lurkinanloomin]

One thing I have learned in life, junkies die.

[HarleyLady27]

Since Our President came out yesterday with this very thing, I would suggest Eric Bolling would be great on this committee...

[nutmeg]

Oh geesh... another one. Sad. Thanks for the update.

[Bryanw92]

Accidental?? Did he think they were Altoids?

When a person takes a bunch of drugs and an opiod is one of them, it’s not the drug’s fault.

[S.O.S121.500]

The chlorine in the gene pool.....

[Brian Griffin]

Deaths from many drugs have risen sharply - methamphetamines, cocaine, benzodiazepines too.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

It’s not just opioids.

[The benzodiazepine graph is 2/3rds down the page.]

[Brian Griffin]

“an accidental overdose that included opioids”

I think that implies other drugs contributed.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Accident nothing, this idiot would’ve killed himself sooner or later, it just happened to be sooner.

[longfellowsmuse]

Wasn’t he a fraternity member at The university of Colorado Boulder? Interestingly, a girl who graduated 2 years ago from my children’s catholic high school goes there. She came back to talk to the students about how during her freshmen year she witnessed opioids and lines of cocaine being done at off campus fraternity parties. She was used to and had abused alcohol frequently, but the level of drug use she saw made a very scary impression on her.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I am SO glad the feds are FINALLY getting serious about this. Kudos to President Trump for leadership on this horrendous crisis that Obastard totally ignored:

October 16, 2017: US Prosecutors Announce First-ever Indictments Against Chinese Opioid Manufacturers

October 26, 2017: Pharmaceutical Founder Arrested In Alleged Nationwide Opioid Scheme. John Kapoor, billionaire founder of opioid spray manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, was arrested in Phoenix on Thursday morning. This bastard is responsible for thousands of deaths per year. I'd love nothing more than to watch his punishment be a forced addiction and slow, miserable death.

17,000 people die every year from this poison!

[originalbuckeye]

This breaks my heart. After our children made it to their 20’s, my friends and I decided we were lucky/blessed that some of the youthful stupidity didn’t bring harm to them. But most of them were levelheaded, religious and shy. Still blessed. And agree, driving home from some parties when I was in my twenties, I know I had a guardian angel on my shoulder.

[RooRoobird20]

So incredibly sad.

[Bullish]

Innocent victim?

Sorry, but those who get high on opioids aren’t exactly innocent, in fact they’re fully aware of the risk in most cases.

I have a nephew who is on his second term in prison over his heroin use. He stole from everyone in our extended family to support his habit. Same old story as most. He’d get out, promise everyone he was through with dope and then slowly but surely go right back to it. He isn’t an innocent victim of his own bad behavior and I have a feeling Bolling’s kid wasn’t either.

Sorry for the Bolling family but it’s a vicious addiction that can and does cause people to make very bad and very dangerous choices. But drug addicts are not forced to take drugs and illegal drugs don’t come with warning labels.

“Innocent victim” is kinda’ out the window here, IMO.

[Henchster]

I wonder if Trump had a heads-up on Bolling’s death and timed his opioid speech to help the family through the grief.

I also wonder if it really was an accident after he got his dad in trouble with his fake posts.

[MichaelCorleone]

I thought I read before that Mr. Bolling was very close to his son, implying that he was not neglected.

I bring that up because the usual reason kids abuse drugs are absentee or abusive parents.

It doesn’t seem so in this case.

I wonder if there’s any indication he didn’t take these either knowingly or willingly. Something like that happens fairly often, as some kids think it’s ‘funny’ or ‘harmless fun’.

[Jim Noble]

too many innocent victims

That statement is one of the reasons we have an uncontrollable problem.

I work with drug addicts every day. None of them are victims, and none of them are innocent.

"The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names" - Confucius.

[aquila48]

“We must fight against this national epidemic, too many innocent victims.”

I’m not sure about the innocent part - more like stupid.

[originalbuckeye]

I just wanted toc clarify, I was never a druggie, but I was known to occasionally have a glass of wine or have spirits ; )

[Nifster]

A tragedy