Posted on 01/10/2019 9:56:33 PM PST by be-baw
300 U.S. citizens die weekly from Heroin and 90 percent of it floods across the southern border.
He’s talking about heroin overdose deaths ! 300 a week!
From the Oval Office speech
Thanks. I figured someone here would know. Looks like many do. And now I do. Thank God Trump is still making sense, right?
He tweets in shorthand a lot
Well below globalist goals. The plan adds another zero to that 300.
So ... 300 Americans a week get lost but somehow find their way back to the US over the southern border? :-)
Yeah it is poorly written. We know what he meant ... but damn.
CDC:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/upshot/opioids-overdose-deaths-rising-fentanyl.html
Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, a record number that reflects a rise of around 10 percent, according to new preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. The death toll is higher than the peak yearly death totals from H.I.V., car crashes or gun deaths...
I suspect that he purposely ‘screwed up’ the Tweet to get it more attention. Now the media is going to make fun of him for it...while getting his message out to FAR MORE PEOPLE than he ever could directly.
A good percentage of those drug overdoses are a result of prescription drugs. Many Americans are over prescribed
with 1384 overdoses a week, 300 from smuggled drugs or DWIs or armed rapes/robberies/cantina murdrs doesn’t sound like an exaggeration.
1384 FATAL overdoses per week.
You'd think with over 300 deaths a week from fentanyl, the word on the street would be to steer far clear of the stuff.
I guess the grapevine ain't what it used to be.
“A good percentage of those drug overdoses are a result of prescription drugs. Many Americans are over prescribed”
I’m not sure that’s that big a problem. I’m more concerned about people who need pain meds but can’t get them because of government interference making it too difficult. Go after the illegal drugs, but allow people who need meds get what they need.
1300 deaths a week, upwards of 300 via mexico/southern border. A “WTC” a month.
and some fentanyl deaths were in laced drugs where people thought they were getting xanex or something else.
Didn’t Prince and Tom Petty die from fentanyl overdoses?
Two top draw “rock stars” died from it (who retained their drawing power in concerts to the end) and yet it isn’t as noted as the deaths of Jimi, Jim, and Janis.
And tens of thousands of “anonymous” regular Janes and Joes. Soon enough (a decade or more?) many Americans will probably personally know some family or friend who was affected by it.
What kind of lives?
yep
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-tom-petty-overdose-death-20180119-story.html
Tom Petty died last year because of an accidental drug overdose that his family said occurred on the same day he found out his hip was fully broken after performing dozens of shows with a less serious injury.
...The coroner’s findings showed Petty had a mix of prescription painkillers, sedatives and an antidepressant. Among the medications found in his system were fentanyl and oxycodone. An accidental overdose of fentanyl was also determined to have killed Prince in April 2016.
Petty suffered from emphysema, a fractured hip and knee problems that caused him pain, the family said, but he was still committed to touring.
He had just wrapped up a tour a few days before he died in October at age 66.
“On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,” his family’s statement said, adding that he performed more than 50 concerts with a fractured hip...
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