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Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues
Washington Post ^ | March 16, 2017

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: consequences; drugs; heroin; karma; ohio; opioid; poppies; victimlesscrime; wod
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To: Vendome
"Something about this seems like a load of crap."

No, heroin and opiod use in general is out of control. A lot of times it starts with legal prescription drugs like Oxy and Hyrdo codone. Fentanyl and all of it's derivatives is the big cause. One of those Fentanyl family of drugs is used to sedate elephants and its out on the street in the heroin. In Pa, the law enforcement are starting to be required to wear gloves because some of the drugs they are dealing with can seep into your skin if you touch it.

We have a lot of problems in America right now, but perhaps the largest one is drug addiction.
21 posted on 03/18/2017 9:48:13 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Vendome

I agree. It is a concerted effort to control (white) people, it seems. Obama let out black drug dealers, but at same time all of these stories about mostly white druggies appeared, including pictures of dead people. There are not doing this out of compassion or concern for us. Both parties are doing it, it is an obvious scheme to influence and control people. Not sure what the goals are, but I know it will make it even harder for people to get the help they need since the police state will naturally extend their grip on doctors, pharmacists and sick people.


22 posted on 03/18/2017 9:48:28 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Vendome

“In the last 5 years opioid deaths have skyrocketed?”

Isn’t that what they’re saying is happening in New England? It’s so bad there that it became a campaign issue this past election! https://www.justbelieverecoverypa.com/drug-overdose-new-england/

Further south, in New Jersey, overdose deaths are up 214% in 6 years: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/12/overdose_deaths_skyrocket_in_nj_as_opioid_epidemic_continues_its_boom.html


23 posted on 03/18/2017 9:48:30 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Vendome
In the last 5 years opioid deaths have skyrocketed?

It surprises you that drug use and death skyrocketed during the Obama years? It shouldn't.

24 posted on 03/18/2017 9:49:52 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Timpanagos1

It seems odd to me that in 2017 that there are so very many people who still do not know that Heroin is evil. Has not any one heard the song GD the pusher man by stepenwolf?! Is the inner city that pathetic? Or Am I missing out on the real picture here?! Did Duane Allman really weigh just 75 lbs at the time of his death from H addiction on a motorcycle crash?!


25 posted on 03/18/2017 9:51:14 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: Timpanagos1

That old victimless crime again.
If only America would give up that war on drugs everything would be unicorns and rainbows.

Where are the paultards today anyway?
Shouldn’t they be on this thread explaining that these people are only dead because drugs are illegal, not because they screw your health up?


26 posted on 03/18/2017 9:52:23 PM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: PghBaldy

Pharmacists and doctors are the number one leading cause of opiate addiction. The drug dealers just reap the rewards of the health industry handing out narcotics like they are candy.


27 posted on 03/18/2017 9:52:32 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Porous borders and an incompetent, nefarious Obama presidency to blame. Him and Jorge Busho. Also thanks to a RINO Congress that enabled all the above.


28 posted on 03/18/2017 9:54:38 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: ErikJohnsky

Umm from Afghanistan?? Don’t think Opium comes from Mexico. Something has to fund the War you know.


29 posted on 03/18/2017 9:57:16 PM PDT by The Cuban (again Freaking French illegal immigrabta,)
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To: Timpanagos1

Damn you, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump! /s


30 posted on 03/18/2017 9:57:49 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: OrangeHoof

You are another glorious product of the reformation aren’t you? So smug and secure in your being “saved” so convinced of another’s damnation. FU.


31 posted on 03/18/2017 10:00:30 PM PDT by The Cuban (again Freaking French illegal immigrabta,)
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To: Timpanagos1

natural selection buy all the trailers we need.


32 posted on 03/18/2017 10:01:33 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Timpanagos1

Wash Posthole. More fake news. Increase DEA enforcement in everyones lives. Make it hard for normal people to get pain medication. Create a crises. Fake News.


33 posted on 03/18/2017 10:04:23 PM PDT by R Rogers
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To: MrEdd

Freedom’s a bitch. I guess you’ll ell us how that war on drugs is WINNING.


34 posted on 03/18/2017 10:04:55 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: OrangeHoof

I admit to mixed emotions.


35 posted on 03/18/2017 10:08:15 PM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
It is bad here in Cincy, I have drug deals on my street.

Don't get caught. ;)

36 posted on 03/18/2017 10:09:23 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Celtic Conservative

Isn’t killing your customer base a bad business model?


37 posted on 03/18/2017 10:09:33 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: Vendome

Yup.
1: oxycontin is harder to snort, and harder to get.
2: the government is shaking down doctors the prescribe too much painkillers
3: heroin has become VERY cheap compared to a decade ago.


38 posted on 03/18/2017 10:09:49 PM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: Timpanagos1
Drug Overdose Death Data

Opioids—prescription and illicit—are the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Opioids were involved in 33,091 deaths in 2015, and opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 1999.

In 2015, the five states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (41.5 per 100,000), New Hampshire (34.3 per 100,000), Kentucky (29.9 per 100,000), Ohio (29.9 per 100,000), and Rhode Island (28.2 per 100,000).

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html

39 posted on 03/18/2017 10:10:20 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: OrangeHoof

Well, aren’t you a sweetheart!


40 posted on 03/18/2017 10:13:20 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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