Something that puzzles me with this new drug epidemic is why Appalachia? I get big cities and larger urban areas having drug problems but it seems to me this area has been deliberately targeted for drug saturation. I mean, drug dealers from Detroit going to the mountains?? Seriously??
I am a West Virginia native and I can tell you that the depth of hopelessness in this beautiful state is rarely equaled.
“Hillbilly Elegy”.
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I read several, several years ago that when mail order pharmacies became popular UPS had to add a large number of trucks in the Appalachia area just to deliver pain medication. This is nothing new.
“Something that puzzles me with this new drug epidemic is why Appalachia? I get big cities and larger urban areas having drug problems but it seems to me this area has been deliberately targeted for drug saturation. I mean, drug dealers from Detroit going to the mountains?? Seriously??”
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Born and raised in Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky) - my people settled there in the early 1800’s and there still are some living by the creek where they settled back then. My parents, grandparents, etc - grew up dirt poor, but they were fiercely independent and proud.
I definitely think Appalachia has been targeted (like the blacks) by SOB politicians, as a group that can be torn down and then built back up to be dependent on the gov’t. LBJ said he’d get the ******* voting Democrat for two hundred years.
As bad as things have been here - Barack Obama damn near finished it off.... destroying the coal industry and the multitude of industry and businesses that proliferated from it. Coal miners made good money and then Obama closed it down. Terrible times ensued - and that’s when I noticed the influx of the drugs - BIG time!
Trump came and promised to bring their jobs back. That was music to our ears as most all politicians before only promised handouts and dependence...... and they did it for the votes. Just another targeted group that was vulnerable to being bought off.
I think Obama attacked Appalachia with a vengence, because we are the epitome of Bible clingers and gun toters.
We had a business in Huntington, West Virginia. I can tell you that the drug woes are very real - horrifically real - the situation is critical!
Thank God for President Donald J. Trump - you go Mr. President!!!!
“Something that puzzles me with this new drug epidemic is why Appalachia? I get big cities and larger urban areas having drug problems but it seems to me this area has been deliberately targeted for drug saturation. I mean, drug dealers from Detroit going to the mountains?? Seriously??”
Why not?
Both urban in the 1980’s and Appalachia today were or are in economic despair, and economic despair provides an environment for people to make poor decisions.
Crack is a different drug than oxy and urban ghettos may look different than Appalachia, but the people are the same.