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Chico’s mass overdose highlights severe new phase of opioid epidemic
sfchronicle ^ | 1/21/2019 | erin alday

Posted on 01/21/2019 9:42:27 AM PST by bitt

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1 posted on 01/21/2019 9:42:27 AM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

hey, SanFran Nan:

clean up your own house!

and get the feces off the sidewalks of San Francisco!


2 posted on 01/21/2019 9:43:31 AM PST by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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To: bitt

Welcome to Fentanyl.


3 posted on 01/21/2019 9:44:33 AM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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You rarely hear about drug overdoses in Singapore. Just sayin'.


4 posted on 01/21/2019 9:46:12 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

The sign arriving passengers see in the Singapore Airport reads: DADA MEANS DEATH! Dada translates to Drugs!


5 posted on 01/21/2019 9:48:35 AM PST by vette6387 (WQew)
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To: bitt

Just about every level of government, institution, and religion is out to “do something about the opiod crisis”. But it just keeps getting worse.

Obviously something is amiss.

Maybe it’s time to emulate China and do what they did when they had a heroin problem. Sounds inhumane and probably is, but there doesn’t seem to be any solution.


6 posted on 01/21/2019 9:49:26 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: bitt

U.C. Chico is drug central for Butte and other counties.

5.56mm


7 posted on 01/21/2019 9:51:47 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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No sympathy here. Drug use, other than as prescribed, is a CHOICE. Choose badly and you pay the price.

Let the abusers die in the streets and execute the dealers.


8 posted on 01/21/2019 9:54:08 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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I remember reading a while back that in China, drug users are FORCIBLY removed from society and given treatment until they give up drugs. Drug traffickers are executed.

Sounds like something this country could consider but a very small chance of this happening.


9 posted on 01/21/2019 10:00:00 AM PST by Signalman
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Play stupid games, win nasty prizes. Whst rock must you live under not to be aware of opioid/fentanyl/carfentanyl dangers? These folks show no concern for themselves or their fellow citizens. The approach of public health officials to this problem is far to conciliatory, from the start. There needs to be a more prominent case made for interdiction at the border/points of entry and draconian punishment for those who import and distribute. Users should not be shown such a sympathetic reaction. Somewhere along the line younger people were not educated well enough to never touch heroin/opiods. Makes me ask the question - are the right people dying of opioid overdoses?


10 posted on 01/21/2019 10:00:30 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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Four more victims were in the garage, a converted space with couches and coffee tables. One was in the bathroom, having collapsed while taking a shower. Six others were scattered around the house in various stages of intoxication

They report this like it's a bad thing for junkies to OD! Junkies are the lowest form of life on the planet. If they all dropped dead tomorrow the world would be a better place. They are NOT victims. Their troubles are willingly and knowingly self inflicted. Why should I or anyone else who is actually a responsible human being give a rat's a$$ about what happens to them.

I had a friend whose kid put him through hell: expensive rehab, arrests for burglary, all to feed his habit that the kid had no intention of seriously wanting to get rid of. Last I heard he and his wife finally had to give up because NOTHING they did made any difference. They had to change the locks to keep the kid from stealing whatever he could. ANd last I heard they hadn't heard anything from him for a couple of years.

11 posted on 01/21/2019 10:02:04 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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It is a self-imposed judgement on a defeating losing view of life. As long as we continue to court their terrible liberal philosophy this will be the future of our nation --- just as its promoters are hoping. It is sort of like the Colosseum games of ancient Rome: distract the people from the realities of a declining republic.

I told my son years ago: see where most suicides are committed - socialist societies. It is a losing view of life.

12 posted on 01/21/2019 10:03:12 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Signalman
I remember reading a while back that in China, drug users are FORCIBLY removed from society and given treatment until they give up drugs

When the communists took over they had a bad opium addiction problem. They executed the addicts as well as the suppliers and after a while the problem was not all that severe anymore.

13 posted on 01/21/2019 10:04:25 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: bitt

Chinese manufactured fentanyl, walked across our wide open southern border.

China learned a lot from the Opium Wars.


14 posted on 01/21/2019 10:04:52 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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To: JimRed

Yup. The first responders would’ve done society better if they just torched the house and walked away.


15 posted on 01/21/2019 10:04:53 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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Ah! Ha! Chico used to be where students wanted to attend college because of the drugs. Must be it’s never changed from the ‘60’s...


16 posted on 01/21/2019 10:08:44 AM PST by Thank You Rush ("")
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“”U.C. Chico is drug central for Butte and other counties.””

Should have kept reading and I wouldn’t have posted my reply...Agree!


17 posted on 01/21/2019 10:10:15 AM PST by Thank You Rush ("")
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The problem of the desire for these drugs created among young people who should have everything to live for IS a real crisis.

That addicts are saving society money in bunches by killing themselves? Comes with the territory.


18 posted on 01/21/2019 10:12:32 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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Some might say it was just Darwin doing his job.


19 posted on 01/21/2019 10:13:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats decide only elections they win are valid.)
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and they PURCHASED our ports of entry! so they can import at will! What ELSE is in those containers??? (boom?)


20 posted on 01/21/2019 10:34:10 AM PST by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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