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.
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That is an absolute disgrace.
I suspect that many people who use internet drug sites are normal, law-abiding people who just want men’s to ease their pain.
Just because some addicts abuse opioids doesn’t make it right to deny pain meds to people who need them.
The ironic thing is that “dark web” sites that sell drugs are much safer than acquiring drugs on the street because those sites have rating systems for every seller.
The so-called War on Drugs has gone way too far.
Bingo
same thing happened in the 1960s when the guys were fighting in some jungle near there
Or possibly meds. ;-D
Thanks for reminding me, I had forgotten that it was actually J.J. Cale who wrote that song and not Clapton.
It’s a sad situation that people who truly need pain meds can’t acquire them because of the Drug War fascists.
There are websites on the so-called “dark web” that sell drugs. I suspect that many of their customers are law-abiding people who are just desperate to relieve their pain.
Those websites are much safer than buying on the street because those sites have a system to rate the seller, similar to Amazon or eBay.
It’s a crime that it has come to that point.
Post of the thread. You have nailed the ugly truth to the wall.
Actually heroin is dirt cheap these days. I personally know too many dead and not dead yet junkies. All of them got there using recreational drugs, not through a MD.
Most of the heroin available in the United States comes from Mexico and Colombia,” the DEA noted in its 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment.
But, “despite significant decreases in Colombian heroin production between 2001 and 2009,” the DEA reported, “South American heroin continues to be the predominant type available in eastern US markets.”
While a significant amount of the heroin consumed in the US comes from South America, most of it passes through Mexico on its way to American consumers.
http://www.businessinsider.com/heroin-in-the-us-from-mexico-and-afghanistan-2016-3
The only one I can't seem to find is one that was translated from German and covers how the drug trade was sponsored by the Brits in Germany after WWI and how the US paved the way for a huge influx of heroin into Europe during the seventies often running into strong resistance from European Police and Intelligence agencies.
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of Modern China
Julia Lovell
ISBN: 1468308955
The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
W. Travis Hanes III & Frank Sanello
ISBN: 0760776385
Drugging A Nation: The Story Of China And The Opium Curse
Samuel Merwin
ISBN: 1163527920
The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
Arthur Waley
ISBN: 0804706115
Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Richard J. Grace
ISBN: 0773544526
Commissioner Lin and the Opium War
Hsin-pao Chang
ISBN: 0393005216
The Chinese Opium Wars
Jack Beeching
ISBN: 0151176507
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Alfred W. McCoy
ISBN: 0060129018
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This one is good because it shows the same approaches used in China by the Brits and the US have been continued and refined.
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America
Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall
ISBN: 0520214498
The first two of the following are pretty much a complete history of how the US has always subjected efforts to stop drug trafficking to other concerns with halting the flow of drugs being a distant second. The third one sort of wraps it all up and puts a bow on what those other concerns are.
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 1844675645
The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA
Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 1936296098
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 0997287012
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This one isn't really about the opium trade but it's very helpful in understanding our history with China although it doesn't really make the point that several US family fortunes originated with the opium trade in China (Astor, Forbes, Delano, Russell, others) as it should.
The China Mirage
James Bradley
ISBN: 978-0-316-19667-3
I am surprised that Arizona is not on that list. It is getting pretty bad here too.
the debate is how effective narcan is on fentanyl.
Lost a niece recently due to this pandemic. (Dayton,OH 33 deaths just that weekend)
Horrible.
Where have you been? There have been tons written in the past 5 years in the increase of overdose deaths. Trump talked about it constantly in his rallies.
You are sadly weird and f’d up. What a load of crap you just wrote.
We had 9 heroin deaths in Cincinnati last weekend. Its not a big town. About 20 were revived with Narcon.
Yes, the rates have skyrocketed. Especially high are the death rates from black tar heroin that is being pushed in neighborhoods with no previous heroin problem.
Recovered alcoholic here, 23+ years sober.
I have witnessed just about every scenario, for drug and alcohol folks.
The truth is some people simply cannot handle their use.
In my not-so-humble opinion, the medical profession places too low of a priority on managing a patient to get off pain meds.
Patients that are cut off from prescription meds, can get heroin or street meds fairly easily.
By then they aren’t “patients,” but rather addicts.
Obamacare has included substance “treatment,” so they are often swept into professional care, rehab, housing, treatment. But this is mainly coming in place of hitting an horrific bottom, under olde skool times.
So people wind up getting rescued from themselves, only to restart the cycle.
Really bad consequences, which used to teach folks about better living practices, have been largely removed from life.
THX
Let 'em have the GOOD stuff CHEAP and take away the incentive to acquire the Bad stuff CHEAP.
You misunderstood my comments. Don’t poke the bear.
Bad science or not; the old propaganda WORKED!
THIS is what I'm trying to illustrate!
We have MULTITUDES of laws that are based on BAD science.
There is something in the 'news'; I hear; about a thing called HUMAN CAUSED Global Warming.
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