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Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues
Washington Post ^ | March 16, 2017

Posted on 03/18/2017 9:26:32 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

By about 3 p.m. Friday, a county morgue in east Ohio was already full — and more bodies were expected.

Rick Walters, an investigator for the Stark County coroner's office, had just left for two death scenes: a suicide and an overdose.

From the road, he called the director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency to ask for help. He needed more space, he explained — specifically, a cold-storage trailer to act as an overflow morgue.

As with much of the United States, Ohio is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic that shows no signs of abating.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: consequences; drugs; heroin; karma; ohio; opioid; poppies; victimlesscrime; wod
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To: lilypad
The brother of Annie Hall comes to mind. Duane played by Christopher Walken.


181 posted on 03/19/2017 6:14:45 AM PDT by xp38
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To: momincombatboots; shibumi

Finally someone tells the truth about “wonderful, harmless, miracle cure-all” pot.

Thank you.


182 posted on 03/19/2017 6:19:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Elsie
But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem, and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further.

The DDT/egg shell link has been debunked more times that the flat Earth theory. Please don't try to breath new life into that old propaganda. By eradicating harmful insects, the wide spread use of DDT in the third world over a span of three decades probably saved more human lives than all the medicine ever practiced.

BTW mosquitoes bite eagles too.

183 posted on 03/19/2017 6:21:05 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Timpanagos1

If true... then the self-created process of “thinning the herd” is at work.


184 posted on 03/19/2017 6:26:42 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Celtic Conservative

If this keeps up we’re going to run out of junkies, oh no!


185 posted on 03/19/2017 6:30:31 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“We have a lot of problems in America right now, but perhaps the largest one is drug addiction.”

The largest problem is that we’ve turned from God. All the other problems are just symptoms.


186 posted on 03/19/2017 6:31:37 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: Timpanagos1

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/kratom-us-ban-drug-heroin-addict-help-quit-habit-fda-government-a7608421.html


187 posted on 03/19/2017 6:31:55 AM PDT by muggs
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To: muggs

https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1067&bih=481&q=kratom+opiate+withdrawal+reddit&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9k_mr1uLSAhUG7yYKHcQyDWMQ1QIIfigH


188 posted on 03/19/2017 6:32:56 AM PDT by muggs
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To: Salamander

This is not the 60s pot your stupid friends smoked in HS.. this is more powerful. I have seen my own data over the last ten years. For some reason the same people that brought you the food pyramid want to tell you how safe and natural pot is. And how successful their pothead friends are. The question is why? My answer, if majorities become potheads (we are getting closer to that)..Then they are easy to control.
Easy to manipulate.. and until they start supplementing their pot with other drugs.. simply nonproductive zombies. The successful ones have been using a lil LSD and Cocaine to jumpstart them.
This is the silent epidemic today.
Imagine millions wo want to eat and sleep all day as long as they can afford to smoke.. as useful as cattle being fattened for slaughter.


189 posted on 03/19/2017 6:34:13 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: Vendome

“In the last 5 years opioid deaths have skyrocketed?”

Heroine. Mexican sourced and military from overseas sourced. Military bases are having epidemics.


190 posted on 03/19/2017 6:38:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: The Cuban

“Don’t think Opium comes from Mexico.”

Think again, this time do some research.


191 posted on 03/19/2017 6:39:24 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Please read the message I just sent you.


192 posted on 03/19/2017 6:40:06 AM PDT by muggs
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To: OrangeHoof
I know this sounds terrible, but....

I know I'm going to make a f***ing idiot out of myself and volunteer as the thread jackass, but here goes nuthin'.

193 posted on 03/19/2017 6:40:12 AM PDT by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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To: PLMerite

“Isn’t killing your customer base a bad business model?”

Not when the customer is dying to get more of your product at any cost.


194 posted on 03/19/2017 6:40:24 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: OrangeHoof

[I know this sounds terrible, but druggies are better off dead not spreading their DNA or wasting other people’s money. America needs to thin the herd and has needed it for some time.]

Unless it was your son or daughter.

I have a friend who is a deputy Sheriff in my county and he basically says the kids are using it (heroin) to virtually commit suicide. They’re dropping like flies.

We think of the twitching druggie running around shooting up but its mostly kids who have never touched the garbage before and then they are hooked and dead in short order.


195 posted on 03/19/2017 6:40:48 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: momincombatboots

“After all.. marijuana isn’t a gateway drug, well unless you look at the experiential evidence.”

Not an advocate, but illegal marijuana is often sold by the same black market dealers as other contraband. Therefore potential marijuana customers are shopping at the same store as junkies. One week the guy may be out of weed, but just happens to have something else... Just a thought. I never met anyone who claimed pot just wasn’t doing it for them and they wanted something stronger. Experimentation due to proximity is my thought.


196 posted on 03/19/2017 6:47:02 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Timpanagos1
The Washington Post. (fake news)

"east Ohio"

Nice specifics, I surprised it didn't use, "two towns over."

197 posted on 03/19/2017 6:48:02 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: bk1000

Pot evidently isn’t doing it for them based on drug testing data from the two Emergency Rooms I have been at. All the data is just being hushed, and I don’t know why.


198 posted on 03/19/2017 6:50:20 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: Timpanagos1
The U.S. does not have a drug problem. Drug use is a symptom of another problem that nobody wants to address.

Every morning when you wake up and look in the mirror, you're looking at a loser. What you do that day to make progress toward winning is all up to you. And the guy who goes up to home plate and strikes out on three swings is making more progress than the pathetic sh!t who sits in the dugout strung out on heroin.

199 posted on 03/19/2017 6:54:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Timpanagos1

Well, building the drug delivery infrastructure over the last 8 years under the watchful eye of Obama was not an easy thing to do. But the good new is that now it is working as planned.


200 posted on 03/19/2017 7:02:07 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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