[pabianice]

>>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

So does Chicago. We must shut Chicago down.

[North Coast Conservative]

The dealers ought to be dropped where they stand, preferrably by sniper rifle, and left to rot in the sun.

[henkster]

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.