Heroin 'apocalypse' shadows New Hampshire primary

[enhanced_deficit]

Drugs being the No.1 issue in NH primary was a surprise news today:

Heroin 'apocalypse' shadows New Hampshire primary

Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY 6:19 p.m. EST February 8, 2016

(Photo: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY)

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A day after the heroin and opiate epidemic claimed one more life here last week, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and police officers were charging up the creaky stairs of a ramshackle rooming house to reach the unit at the end of the narrow hall where Eric Piccard was clearly in distress.
The 35-year-old unemployed drywall worker — roused back to consciousness by the clamor at his door — had collapsed on the bed earlier that evening after snorting a $20 heroin dose, prompting his mother's panicked 911 call when Piccard repeatedly failed to answer his cellphone.
"I know it's not right,'' Piccard told Manchester police officer Guy Kozowyk, tears tunneling down his wind-burned face. "I just wanted some peace, to go to sleep.''
The addict's plight, at once terribly sad and dangerous, nevertheless brought a small measure of relief for local authorities who have been encountering waves of overdose fatalities and hundreds of others teetering on life's precipice with uncommon regularity.

New Hampshire State Police: Lab swamped by heroin, opioids

National politics, as it does every four years, has taken center stage here. Yet there is no ignoring the national public health crisis that has been raging for years in the very idyllic New England communities where Democrat and Republican presidential hopefuls are now stumping for votes.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...mary/79720402/




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[AuH20]

I wonder if this is related to the Misery Index? As quality of life declines, people fall into these poor decisions.

[Origanalist]

I wonder if this is related to the Misery Index? As quality of life declines, people fall into these poor decisions.

People fall into these decisions in good times and bad, always have, always will.

[enhanced_deficit]

I wonder if this is related to the Misery Index? As quality of life declines, people fall into these poor decisions.

Interesting point, actually there might be a relationship here.

Hope n Change era does not seem to be working for much of America other than sympoblism of changing colors in political drawings.

[phill4paul]

National politics.....

[TheTexan]

Hopefully they gave that young man who almost killed himself a stiff prison sentence.

To teach him a lesson. For next time.

[RJB]

Hopefully they gave that young man who almost killed himself a stiff prison sentence.

To teach him a lesson. For next time.

And a permanent felony record so officials can administer the future care he will need. Also it's good for employers to know this in case the guy tries to sneak into the job market and injure himself from the excess stress.

[FindLiberty]

Oxycodone out, "Hero in"

Does Trump realize who is flying the heroin cargo airplanes from Afghanistan?
Forget the impossible 8,000 mile "wall". As commander -N- chief of the
on-the-books portion of the military, just shutdown a few runways instead.

RE: post #7 above, It's pathetic, tragic, and one heck of a anti-drug jobless trap!
Say, are there even any remaining non-gov job leftovers to send off to China?

Good times ahead for the gov half of the homeland population;
Prolly get pay raises to keep up with the pace of runaway inflation too.

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What new gov plan comes along next to shake the confidence out of the masses?
Bombs away "Syria", Hello refugees, Bye bye EU culture
Arm enemies overseas, dial down oil prices and taunt Putin

This path towards WW3 that the USA is marching on concerns me the most.
Is it all intentional, or just some freakish streak of bad luck?

Grey skies are gonna' clear up, just Putin a happy face...

Just thought of a great product: Smiley face dosimeter badges!

[enhanced_deficit]

National politics.....

Shhh.. this is reckless post.

On unrelated note, heard in news that 25% of NH voting demo was Vets.

[Anti Federalist]

In the 50s and 60s it was heroin, in the 70s and 80s it was coke, in the 90s it was crack, and now we're back to heroin.

And in every case, in every decade, when you tracked the supply chain back, you found the US government or it's intelligence arms, involved in the drug trade that was creating a "national crisis".

From Batista's Cuba to "Air America" in SE Asia, to Ollie North and Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton running a coke ring out of the $#@!ing White House for Christ's sake, to our puppet regime in Afghanistan...and the band played on.

But try and get an average Idiot AmeriKan to under-$#@!ing-stand that.

National politics.....

[Anti Federalist]

Oxycodone out, "Hero in"

Grey skies are gonna' clear up, just Putin a happy face...

Just thought of a great product: Smiley face dosimeter badges!

[donnay]

It's interesting too...that the hospitals love to push morphine on people for pain.

[otherone]

WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY WAITING FOR?
CAN'T THEY SEE HEROIN DESTROYS LIVES?
IT'S TIME TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL!

[Anti Federalist]

WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY WAITING FOR?
CAN'T THEY SEE HEROIN DESTROYS LIVES?
IT'S TIME TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL!

Not just illegal.

This is a national security threat.

There needs to be a war declared.

A "war on drugs" if you will, to wipe this scourge off our streets and out of our schools and...I...wait...what's that you say?

[presence]

Switzerland

The national drug policy of Switzerland was developed in the early 1990s and comprises the four elements of prevention, therapy, harm reduction and prohibition.^[17] In 1994 Switzerland was one of the first countries to try heroin-assisted treatment and other harm reduction measures like supervised injection rooms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy#Switzerland

[Anti Federalist]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy#Switzerland

Pipe down, hippie!

[otherone]

Not just illegal.

This is a national security threat.

There needs to be a war declared.

A "war on drugs" if you will, to wipe this scourge off our streets and out of our schools and...I...wait...what's that you say?

WHERE THE HELL IS MY TAX MONEY GOING IF THEY CAN'T PROTECT MY KIDS FROM THIS $#@!.
BUILD THAT WALL ALREADY TRUMP