Singapore has the right idea.
Posted on 05/22/2017 8:10:51 AM PDT by Hojczyk
“We feel it necessary to show the other side of this horrible drug,” East Liverpool police officials wrote in a caption on the photo. “We feel we need to be a voice for the children caught up in this horrible mess.”
The photo caused the country to shudder.
And, then, the country forgot.
Politicians forgot, too, said Lane. “Governor John Kasich said he was going to come to town and get to the bottom of this. He never did.”
Meanwhile, the problems in East Liverpool are deepening.
People are dying, yes, “but the broader dangers are ignored,” Lane said. “Think of the potency of the fentanyl that almost killed my officer. What if a kid had hugged him in the grocery store? Or an elderly person? They’d all be dead.”
And what if someone with larger, more devious plans in mind used such a toxic substance in an act of terrorism, he wonders. “Imagine if someone put that in the water system. Or tossed it on a crowd. Now think about that, the dangers are unlimited.”
And these deadly drugs? Well, they are pretty easy to get, Lane explains. “Just go on the Internet and order them from China. They deliver them to your door.”
Lane is dissatisfied with Kasich, who has cut funding and hurt the chief’s ability to go after dealers and track down the sources.
He’s hopeful that President Trump will make good on his promises to solve the epidemic.
Opiate abuse kills 91 people a day in the US, according to the CDC, and much of the problem is concentrated in Rust Belt counties where Trump won
Many voters in these states switched their support from Barack Obama and the Democrats to Trump, hoping to shock the political class into noticing the problems in their communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
This is must read for people with kids
http://nypost.com/2017/05/20/the-opioid-epidemic-tightens-its-grip-on-america/
We should legalize it (all drugs, in fact) so that people would magically become unaddicted to it.
“And what if someone with larger, more devious plans in mind used such a toxic substance in an act of terrorism, he wonders. ‘Imagine if someone put that in the water system. Or tossed it on a crowd. Now think about that, the dangers are unlimited.’”
*SHUDDER*
So does Chicago. We must shut Chicago down.
Death to drug dealers....first offense...federal statute.
The dealers ought to be dropped where they stand, preferrably by sniper rifle, and left to rot in the sun.
Much of the problem is in the rust belt...this is true.
Much of the opioid and methamphatamine problems are in the small towns. There used to be one or two small factories in those towns that provided employment, but now there are no factories there. No jobs, no future, no reason to NOT do drugs for a lot of these people.
These are the communities that put Donald Trump in office with the promise of jobs. The opioid problem is only one facet of the effects of the de-industrialization of America.
A lot in Maine, NH, and MA
Governor John Kasich said he was going to come to town and get to the bottom of this
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Probably got distracted by a large delicious sandwich.
Served by one of those “law-abiding” illegal aliens he loves so much.
Who are importing the dope.
>>>Much of the opioid and methamphatamine problems are in the small towns. There used to be one or two small factories in those towns that provided employment, but now there are no factories there. No jobs, no future, no reason to NOT do drugs for a lot of these people.
Utah has an unemployment rate of 3.1%. They need to call U-hual and head west.
[ We should legalize it (all drugs, in fact) so that people would magically become unaddicted to it. ]
We should de-legalize alcohol because being an alcoholic should be illegal. You know like it used to be,.
Maybe we could have saudi style vice squads going around kicking in doors and beating people who are drunks too.
It is not that legalizing things will magically cure addicted people, it won’t at all, but it will destroy the dangerous black market that thrives around it being illegal.
Singapore has the right idea.
We lived through it. Ex-husband is still an abuser, son runs a half-way house to help others out of that black pit of Despair.
There has GOT to be a lot of money in this for someone along the line. Easy money.
I have no solutions other than to turn back time and undo all the damage the Socialists have done to Society as a whole - destroying the Nuclear family, giving kids ‘two mommies’ instead of a parent, each, etc.
Before my time, it was pot, heroin, and alcohol...that I know of. I'm sure that there have been others.
Each was an epidemic, destined to destroy all of society. And yet, here we still are.
Indiana “officially” has the same unemployment rate, and has a severe opioid and methamphetamine problem. The national rate is “officially” 4.4%. I question the statistics.
NH Unemployment rate is the lowest in the nation at 2.6 percent, and we have one of the worst opiate problems in the US.
My adult son told me that, in his workplace (which is a health care facility!) that 3 employees have lost adult children to opioids in the last 6 months.
The only reason he found this out is because they lost one of their graveyard shift employees, a mom of 38 years old, a couple of weeks ago. First time she tried it, the story goes, but tainted with some deadly substance.
Suburban, mostly white community, very middle class. Ohio
Thanks, Mexico.
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