Posted on 11/19/2016 8:12:29 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: America's heroin epidemic laid bare outside McDonald's: Shocking footage emerges of the moment two men had to be rescued after overdosing in a parking lot
A disturbing video has emerged showing the extent of the country's heroin epidemic, with two men having to be rescued after overdosing in a McDonald's parking lot in Ohio.
The video, taken on a cellphone and posted to Facebook Live, has been viewed more than 50,000 times following the incident in Sandusky on Thursday afternoon.
According to police, a group of people found one man passed out behind the wheel of a car, and a second man unconscious on the ground by the vehicle.
The video begins with the man, Eddie Wimbley, pulling up at the McDonald's in his car and asking somebody to call 911.
Others quickly arrive at the scene and try to help the men. They determine both are breathing, but while the driver soon comes to, the man on the ground will not respond.
One woman, who Wimbley said is a nurse, takes charge and attends to both men.
Paramedics soon arrived at the scene, followed by police.
Wimbley, who had his four-year-old son in his car, said he was worried the man on the floor was dead.
'He wasn't moving or responding or anything,' Wimbley told Fox 8 Cleveland.
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Im outraged. They should stop serving the McHeroin meals, they just are not healthy.
I haven't listened to rock and roll for DECADES. I listen to classical, opera and, when all stations are on commercial, un poco de salsa
Why rescue?
Both can be, should be and should have BEEN all this time ... effectively patrolled.
But there were young girls, young boys, hot women and old ladies to molest at the airport
Couldn't waste time searching for drugs
bozo's all wee wee'd up and hissy fittin' 'cause a rich white guy is gonn'a evict his undocumented ass and accompanying wookie out of public housing in not too many weeks.
tough !
I bet these guys never tried marijuana first.
It was mainly weed that was glamorized. Cocaine may have also been celebrated at times, but was condemned at other times. Heroin and meth never have been.
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyQpAiMXkg
Drop out,Turn on,Tune in.
Heroin is an epidemic where I live - kids die from it on a weekly basis around here.
They see it happen again and again, but they think they won’t become addicted if they try it once. So sad.
Yep, er, I mean, RIGHT ON, DUDE.
Those folks now have MUSH for BRAINS.
Think about it for a moment.When 911 is called you have the police notified,The Fire Dept Emergency Unit is dispatched and then an Ambulance is called.Think of the expense right there.
The one way to stop the consumption of these illegal drugs is to not rescue the users following there overdoses.That will be one less drug user and Health care dollar consumer.
I'm told that it is. People who take these drugs get so unbelievably high that they are hooked pretty much for life. Once they come down from the high, their life's mission becomes obtaining the next fix. I cannot imagine how the high can be worth the utter depravity that follows but apparently these drugs are extremely powerful and addictive.
90% of the heroin comes out of MEXICO!
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True
Portman
“We understand that this heroin is primarily coming from Mexico, over the border.”
— Rob Portman on Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 in Department of Homeland Security hearing
Most heroin in U.S. now comes across Mexican border, Rob Portman says
By Nadia Pflaum on Monday, March 14th, 2016 at 1:24 p.m.
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman has been busy in Washington touting the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act in response to a shocking number of heroin overdoses in Ohio.
The bill just passed in the Senate, 94-1. (Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse was the sole “nay,” saying he believes that fighting addiction is a local issue.)
Ohio ranks high on the list of states reeling from the national epidemic. In Montgomery County, which encompasses Dayton, Ohio, heroin-related deaths increased 225 percent between 2011 and 2015.
Back in the 1970s, the heroin on U.S. streets was the “black tar” variety, and much of it came from southeast Asia. In 2010, 80 percent of the heroin in the world came from poppy fields in Afghanistan, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
So when Portman said that most of the heroin in America comes from Mexico’s border, we were skeptical.
Portman, it turns out, has done his homework. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Drug Threat Assessment of 2015 says that Mexico is the primary supplier of heroin to the United States.
“Southeast Asia was once the dominant supplier of heroin in the United States, but Southeast Asian heroin is now rarely detected in U.S. markets,” the report state. “Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Colombia dominate the U.S. heroin market, because of their proximity, established transportation and distribution infrastructure, and ability to satisfy U.S. heroin demand.”
The report also says that Mexican “transnational criminal organizations,” (the DEA’s term for drug-dealing gangs) “pose the greatest criminal drug threat to the United States; no other group is currently positioned to challenge them.”
The National Drug Threat report notes that Colombian gangs were traditionally the suppliers of wholesale cocaine and heroin to Mexican and Dominican groups. But cartels in Mexico are ramping up their roles on the supply side — opium production in Mexico increased by 50 percent in 2014.
Mexican labs also produce fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller that is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. Fentanyl is sometimes mixed with heroin or substituted for heroin, and the DEA reports more than 700 overdoses attributed to fentanyl between late 2013 and early 2015.
Drugs get past the U.S. borders mostly “by land, not by sea,” said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, in the same March 8 hearing with Portman. And a 2015 Washington Post series on the surge of heroin puts the border detection rate at a scant 1.5 percent.
Smugglers’ creativity defies gravity: One successful bust came when agents caught two men flying a drone carrying 28 pounds of heroin from Mexico to California.
Our ruling
Portman said that heroin is coming to the United States primarily from Mexico. He hasn’t been studying drug facts for nothing.
We rate this claim True.
Translation: BUILD THE WALL...DEPORT DRUG SMUGGLING ALIENS!
Re : Post #13
The actual number of heroin overdoses is much higher than reported. I know this because the local hospitals distribute free Narcan; and I know people have had to use it to revive friends of theirs.
Naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan among others, is a medication used to block the effects of opioids, especially in overdose. Naloxone may be combined within the same pill as an opioid to decrease the risk of misuse. When given intravenously, it works within two minutes, and when injected into a muscle, it works within five minutes.
The medication may also be used in the nose. The effects of naloxone last about half an hour to an hour. Multiple doses may be required, as the duration of action of most opioids is greater than that of naloxone.
While Afghanistan does produce huge amount of heroin, the vast majority of heroin used in the US originates from Mexico and South America.
They did it to themselves. Best to leave it at that.
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