Keep cutting social services and taxes. Misery will keep going up. The right thought that just blacks and hombres would suffer from the cuts. Nope it's white people too. Blame the Chinese. Blame the Indians. Blame the liberals. And as more people die the more the more they can blame others. You want to stop the tragedy? Stop blaming others Abd stand
The idea that we are divided into different races based on variances in our skin pigmentation is patently absurd. There is only one race, the human race.
There is but one race, but so many shades of colors. That idea is very human and to deny it is to deny human's ideas.
As seen in the map @ question 5, a lot of focus (on this BBS) is aimed toward rural areas of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia; but you can clearly see that more densely populated areas of the northeast are likewise affected. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/upshot/opioid-drug-overdose-epidemic.html#question-5 ... 3. So is this crisis about prescription painkillers or heroin? Both. ... 5. Where is the worst of the problem? The Midwest, Appalachia and New England. For now. There’s a lot of geographic variation in the rate of drug deaths, with the highest overdose rates clustered in Appalachia, the Rust Belt and New England.
Fentanyl hit the north-east the particularly hard, and especially for Baltimore - Trump capital. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/fentanyl-overdoses/?utm_term=.e0f1ba32cd41
President Trump declares opioid abuse a public health emergency. Government data last month showed that nearly 62,000 people died from opioid drug overdose - many of them opioid overdoses. 2016 saw one of the largest ever recorded annual jumps in overdose deaths. NYT updated their previous article:
No, actually many of them are not. It just takes such a headline as “white people” to get attention about the subject here on Clutch Fans and with the greater US population. Really tells you something.
Is this a pretext for more DEA funding on the assumption Trump has invested in a prison supply company (or the land to build it on). Otherwise minimizing low income healthcare would seem counter-intuitive.
That is a noble sentiment indeed. I just wish everyone felt the same way. Unfortunately, discrimination and racism are still realities.
This is a disingenuous response. Yes... not ALL people affected by the opioid crisis are white. However.... West Virginia - 93% White Ohio - 82% white New Hampshire - 93% white Kentucky - 91% white The fact that this is a crisis that is hitting heavy white majority states and counties puts into context many variables that bring up the racial component, the differing response to previous drug epidemics such as the crack epidemic, and the Reagan era Mandatory sentencing "Anti-Drug Act", as well as the racial scapegoating component in the current opioid crisis in how its treated as a problem with Mexico and the border when in reality its a drug company and doctor problem. case in point- Based on what you see above do you think that is likely? This is hitting Trump country hard. These are areas where Trump is more popular than anywhere else. Not sure if he has an interest in putting his own most loyal supporters behind bars. Yesterday he showed two things- A. Its a big enough issue for him to give an appearance of caring B. Its not big enough to fund a single dollar towards putting forth an actual solution with disaster relief funds. Under Jeff Session's DOJ though who knows.... I don't put it past Trump and his voters for him to put massive amounts of them behind bars, and for the fans to thank him in the process.
Here is some perspective on the amount spent treating opioid use: it's massive - nearly a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) per year. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...ed-access-to-addiction-treatment-report-finds And the number of people affected by various kinds of opiates is rather astoundingly large. By the way: totally "Trump country" here :
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions thinks it's 1981, that you can Just Say NO to drugs! ...and also that mar1juana is the gateway to opiod addiction.
