Posted on 02/05/2023 5:52:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The numbers are horrifying, but drug overdose death statistics can't fully convey the crisis ravaging America, so DailyMail.com has documented the suffering in some of the worst-affected communities.
There were 107,622 deaths from drug overdoses in the US in 2021, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the year prior, and shocking national trends show few signs of the crisis abating.
Just two milligrams of fentanyl - the amount that fits on the top of a pencil tip - is deadly. Despite successful nationwide stings to bust dealers, authorities admit there's no end in sight for the epidemic.
The animal sedative Xylazine - known as 'tranq' - is now exacerbating the crisis. It's often combined with fentanyl and its horrific effects cause visceral 'flesh-eating' abscesses and addicts to zonk out as they lose feeling in their muscles.
These harrowing pictures lay bare the devastation across the country - as 'zombied' fentanyl and tranq users collapse on needle-littered streets stretching from Washington to Massachusetts, Louisiana to Philadelphia.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Mexico and much of Latin American is beyond corrupt. The delusional believe that much of that corruption stops at our border. The cheap labor motive is just a smoke screen.
Without the enormous privilege, any one of those pictured people could have been Hunter Biden. And like you mentioned, all rat governors and by inference, a higher percentage of rat families producing these junkies.
“This is why libertarian politics fail. It denies human nature”
How would more conservative politics help?
Perhaps something like;
Bring in the head of a known drug dealer to the new Department of Health and safety, and receive a $10.000 dollar reward... If he was a politician, receive twice the bounty..
Same could be said for mashed potatoes and gravy....
Pointing at drug deaths and blaming libertarian policies is like pointing at “gun-free zone” school shootings and blaming gun rights. The country’s drug policies are very, very far from libertarian.
The published photos are all of white people, anyway. Do a Google (i.e. deep state propaganda) image search on shoplifters.
People who take seemingly harmless recreational drugs need to realize that they are playing Russian roulette with their bodies.
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We're up to reply #88,and only ONE image posted??
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They are in the link.
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Happening here in NH too, even in the small cities and towns.
While this is a tragedy, call me back when the numbers exceed the ones that CHOICE produces yearly.
Yes, more of the same BS. Just like ‘white supremacy’ crap. All deep state propaganda.
When I was a kid, my father would periodically drive me through the worst areas of Roxbury/Dorchester (Boston) at night to show me how bad it was there.
This was in the mid 1970s at the height of the busing controversy. It was quite an education. Kids younger than I were sitting on stoops drinking out of paper bags and pushers were standing on street corners. One of most vivid memories I have was an obvious transvestite walking up to us at a stoplight and asking my father and I, in a deep husky voice, if we wanted blowjobs for $10 each.
That was enough for me to stay away from those areas for life.
I see this played out in NYC a lot. You will find people in the middle of the street in a drug stupor. They are hunched over, walking like zombies, barely able to keep their balance as saliva drools out of their mouths and sometimes their pants falling down around them as they struggle to releive themselves. It's a grisly sight.
We need to disband our current social services model, fire all of the professional case workers and start over from scratch.
Ha. We need to disband the liberalism and lib politicians that hire these people!
A 23-year-old son of a co-worker of mine died a few weeks ago from a fetanyl overdose. He was taking what he thought was a “recreational drug”, not realizing it was laced with fetanyl. It was one of the most horrific wakes I have ever been to because he was celebrating the opening of a business that he started with his older brother. His older brother took the same drug that night but got lucky.
People who take seemingly harmless recreational drugs need to realize that they are playing Russian roulette with their bodies.
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This is also what gets me. Come on — don’t these morons read the news? Why do they keep doing drugs of any kind, knowing full well what’s going on? No one is standing there forcing them to start it up — some sort of fault and blame needs to start lying with the users.
I have an old friend from high school - their beautiful daughter who had everything in the world going for her decided to take opioid pills from friends. Now, mind you, this was a Barbie doll beautiful girl, a university cheerleader, ended up with a masters degree but eventually succumbed to a fentanyl poisoning. But, WHY did this girl start this all up in the first place??? Mom and Dad are on fire blaming the people who “murdered” her daughter — I feel for them, but her daughter made the decision to ingest the substance. Why — she was smart. She was from a top notch close and wonderful family. She knew, but she did it anyway!!
At some point we need to say to our young people — you start, you are responsible for the ending. And nowadays, the ending isn’t good and is risky even if you ingest marijuana ...so stop it already!!!
Yep. I believe we are on the same page.
Unless your drug was prescribed to you by a trusted doctor and came to you over a drug store counter, you should never, ever, put a drug into your system.
I took my kid downtown
Your first mistake. Teach your kids cities are evil DANGEROUS places to be avoided at all costs. Nothing good happsns in a big city. Nothing.
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It’s happening in small country towns and rural areas, too — even moreso.
It happens everywhere — rich, poor, city or rural. It happens because, “well, my brother/uncle/best friend had some and I just didn’t have anything else to do (because I’m just not that intelligent and I’m a bit careless as well) so I tried it.”
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