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 ...
“Ohio is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic”
Honestly, our country should be ashamed of itself...to allow this to happen again after the 70’s and 80’s ...Obama and Bush did nothing to stop the flow of drugs over our borders and Americans are dying because of them. The blood is on their hands for sure. Imagine, DJT is the first national figure in 20 years to bring these issues to the forefront.
Our body politic is a bunch of murderers sitting around DC collecting paychecks. What a shame!!!
And the opposite of that graph is METH
“And a huge percentage of drug overdoses occur because drugs are illegal.”
Every time a story like this comes out the libertarians start talking pure BS about legalizing drugs to save lives. It won’t work...you will have a generation of addicts and deaths in 2 years...it’s a deadly fantasy!!
They have the added social pressure of being white, poor and supposedly responsible for being the root of the modern world’s problems, according to our Leftist overlords as parroted incessantly by the media.
“I know this sounds terrible, but druggies are better off dead not spreading their DNA or wasting other people’s money.”
You are one sick puppy!!!
Someone I know has relatives or relative associates, lol, in the Mexican drug trade. They have switched to heroin since pot is basically legal here. Although they are keeping their hands into pot as it is going to be so regulated there may still be a cheaper black market.
“Although they are keeping their hands into pot as it is going to be so regulated there may still be a cheaper black market.”
Absolutely correct...the government will guarantee that legalized drugs will be more expensive...the black market will explode.
Agree; brutal, but needed. None of these people want to make something of their lives and we are told over and over not to pull this stuff.
At the hospital I work we had to restart the freezers in the decommissioned food services building for the flu non-survivors. Nothing to do with drugs, but once again the flu shot was a misfire.
I know, because I am forced by my employer to get the shot, but I have had a bout with flu for the last six CONSECUTIVE years. This year was particularly bad, in that I had to take 2 full weeks off, and will be returning to work on Saturday.
It’s flu, not drugs IMHO.
H isn’t much H anymore. You have it right CC.
Are you sure it is Heroin or is it what the trafficers are cutting into the H.
Apparently, the addition of Fentanyl that is not diluted properly is responsible for the spike.
Seriously?!?! Compared to what—Ebola?
I highly doubt you can defend your statement!
Heroin was initially marketed in the United States as a pain killer for children.
Why is life so bad in our nation that so many people use such dangerous drugs to escape it?
“Exactly. It’s almost impossible to get any Pain meds because of the Puritans.
Pretty soon, even cancer patients won’t be able to get any pain medication. Ridiculous.”
The geniuses here in VA changed state law.
All pain patients are being shoved into Pain Management clinics.
Problem is Medicare and insurance considers that specialty treatment with a larger co-pay and they pay little to nothing of the treatment.
The pain management docs don’t prescribe any opiods but demand monthly drug tests, that insurance doesn’t pay for, to make sure you aren’t getting pain meds elsewhere.
I know one woman whose shoulder is so bad that it’s bone on bone. She came down with the flu so her surgery was put off six months.
They are giving her steroid shots but nothing for pain.
Screwed up!
A friend of mine has neuropathy, like me, and his insurance forced him into pain management nine years ago.
He figures he has spent $20,000 out of pocket in that time.
His wife had to go back to work full time at the age of 68 so they could afford the pain docs.
And he lives with intense pain every day.
I met a couple who were talking about getting hydrocodone from a drug dealer so the wife could get a few hours sleep at night.
Oh yeah?
Well you’re a racist.
So there. :)
/sarc(???????)
On an international, industrial, scale. The Brits killed over 150 million Chinese with opium after fighting two wars to force China to continue to allow the importation of it. It's our turn to be the goose that la;ys the golden eggs for the globalists, that's all.
Anyone who doesn't believe it should consider the fact that four years after losing control of the Golden Triangle in SE Asia, the US moved into the Golden Crescent and did so nearly nine months before the Afganistan government asked the Soviets to come in and help them.
They had to ask for help because the US had begun providing arms not to anti-communists, they were a dime a dozen and only fought when the mood struck them. Instead, they provided money, guns, and transportation, to the opium growers who had been all but but out of business by the Afghan government cracking down on and the huge flow out of the Golden Triangle. It's no coincidence that after the US lost control of the Golden Triangle the next area that was "critical" just happened to be the Golden Crecent.
So, yell "conspiracy theory" or whatever else you like, but if you don't bother to research you're only fooling yourself. The US doesn't care about the international drug trade, siphons off a cut of that business at the wholesale end to fund all sorts of operations they wouldn't otherwise have money for, and until recently chose the markets for the major dealers to sell into limiting the total amount that came into the US to a fraction of the total volume.
Now, there's so much opium being grown (and protected by US military might in Afghanistan) that the price has collapsed. The ease of bringing it in from Mexico has revived the opium crops there to such an extent that the US no longer controls either the wholesale end or the middle men. There are plenty of people happy to have the chance to sell for $3 US what was a dime bag of smack back in the sixties. In addition it's both much more pure and usually cut with whatever some dolt believes will make their suppliers the preferred suppliers due to their selling, "better sh* t".
In a country where the "Christians" rationalize away the deaths of people they make only the most feeble efforts to lead to Christ and the culture glorifies living for the moment no matter what the cost, the market couldn't be better for dope dealers.
Nor has it ever been better for those who profit from the drug trade directly and indirectly while rationalizing away the horrific effects it has on society. Many such folks find out the hard way that legal or not, that horror can get to them the same as it does to those they consider stupid and beneath them.
That’s why I’d never try heroin. I’d probably LIKE it! I see the addicts strewn about in the city. They look so peaceful, as if NOTHING mattered. At all.
And that’s why I’ll never go to a casino, etc. It’d wreck my family in a heartbeat.
At least when I have a bottle of beer, I know what the dosage is, and that I can get more if I really feel I need it at any time. And that I most likely will not “wake up dead”. :)
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