Heroin town USA: Louisville (KY) is hit with 52 overdose cases in just 32 HOURS......

dailymail.uk ^ | Feb. 14, 2017 | Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: Heroin town USA: Louisville is hit with 52 overdose cases in just 32 HOURS as opioid epidemic continues to ravage America

Louisville, Kentucky, has become the latest American city to have experienced an alarming cluster of heroin overdoses, with 52 drug-related emergency calls coming in during 32 hours last week.

According to Louisville Metro Emergency Services, it was more than double the number of overdose calls that came in during the same time period the previous week.

The agency said the 911 calls started coming in at around midnight on Thursday and continued through 8am on Friday.

[Rusty0604]

Goodness! Hopefully the pharmacy was investigated.

[BeadCounter]

I agree but have never understood the economics of cutting with Fentanyl. Are they getting it almost free from labs in China or something?

That's a good question and I don't know the answer. One does hear vague references to China. I really don't know where the fentanyl comes from. I think I've heard it's an elephant sedative too; being as to why it is so powerful. This is a topic to study in itself.

[Timpanagos1]

“State laws with respect to opiate dispensing vary a lot.”

There is a pharmacy in a West Virginia town of 392 people that sold 9,000.000 hydrocodone pills in two years.

[RC one]

I see heroin as being a chemical weapon directed against our children. Mexican drugs have killed far more people than muslim terrorists ever did. If we actually give a shiite about this country, letting them die is not the right answer. putting an end to this devilry is the right answer.

[Celtic Conservative]

Buy the Naxalone by the gallon.

CC

[dfwgator]

That's why Singapore has the right idea.

[RC one]

a lot of “desperate chronic pain patients” are simply lying drug addicts btw. I deal with these people all the time.

[BeadCounter]

And that organized crime too, is killing a lot in the inner city, probably what a lot of the problem is in Chicago where El Chapo was designated as the first Public Enemy Number 1 since Al Capone. Of course, El Chapo is in jail now.

[Celtic Conservative]

It’s not the heroin. It’s what they’re mixing it with. Primarily fentanyl, or its vetrinary analogue which is carfentanil. Both when mixed too strong will depress your involuntary reflexes so bad your heart simply stops beating.

CC

[Gene Eric]

>> C’MON people, we’ve got to clear the streets and stop this madness!

Definitely. Capital punishment for dealers.

[Garth Tater]

Thus, addition to pain killers is cultural and specific to certain areas around the country. These people are letting themselves become addicted to opioids and becoming junkies.

There's nothing like a good job and a good woman to keep a young man heading down the proper path in life. As a 35 year resident of the Huntington W.Va. area I can tell you good jobs are very, very hard to find - and a woman can easily do better on her own with govt assistance than she can hooking up with a man with a minimum wage job.

Yes, drug addiction is a choice but it's a choice most young men would never be in the position to have to make if the factories hadn't been off-shored. Of the five close friends my son had growing up here two are dead from drugs, two have decent jobs and one works in the underground economy. NONE of them were bad kids growing up.

[RC one]

The Cartels are worse than terrorists and they have extensive networks inside this country. They need to be dug out of their dens and exterminated.

[FrdmLvr]

Sad to say, but once they become a junkie, they’re almost better off dead.

[RC one]

that’s why we need to get this poison off the streets.

[nopardons]

In Chicago, it's the Mexicans, on the West Side3, who control the drugs. The blacks, on the South Side, are the lowest level pushers and expendable.

There was a time, in America, when heroin addicts were looked down on and shunned and there weren't as many of them. Now? Apparently there are tons of them.

[Timpanagos1]

“Yes, drug addiction is a choice but it’s a choice most young men would never be in the position to have to make if the factories hadn’t been off-shored. Of the five close friends my son had growing up here two are dead from drugs, two have decent jobs and one works in the underground economy. NONE of them were bad kids growing up.”

The relationship between drug addiction and the economics of certain areas is a two way street, in that yes, lack of job opportunity in a geographic area can cause higher rates of drug addition, but high rates of drug addiction in a geographic area leads to a lack of good workers and companies do not want to open up shops.

That same situation is true for the South Side of Chicago and the towns in West Virginia.

Speaking of WV did you see this piece?

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses - See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161217/drug-firms-poured-780m-painkillers-into-wv-amid-rise-of-overdoses#sthash.403EkXBB.dpuf

[nopardons]

You misused the term “epicurean” and I suggest that you look up the meaning of epicureanism; it has to do with the “simple life” and NOT “decadence”.

[GraceG]

[ Hell, just let them die. ]

The worst thing you can do to a junkie is prevent them from hitting rock bottom by rescuing them from their own stupidity.

[Eagles6]

It’s broughg across the southern border by the Mexican cartels. soetoro commuted life sentences or pardon 4 brothers that worked for the siniloa cartel. Smuggled 3/4 of a million lbs of drugs. Not a peep from msm.

[Garth Tater]

but high rates of drug addiction in a geographic area leads to a lack of good workers and companies do not want to open up shops.

It's not that companies don't want to move in, it's that they all left. When I moved to Huntington in '78 factory jobs and jobs on the river were plentiful. Huntington, a town of 50,000 went for years without a murder. Every street was safe to walk at any hour of the day or night. W.Va. had one of the country's lowest crime rates.

Then the factories started closing. The glass plant - gone, the bumper factory - gone, the Nickel plant cut way back, the metal fab shops serving the coal mines - mostly gone. All gone and we're in our second generation of jobless men now where women rule the roost. They get the govt check for doing nothing and it's bigger than the pittance a hard working man can bring in from a minimum wage job - tough on a man's pride to be in that situation and maybe it ain't right, but pride is one of the big things that keeps a man on the straight and narrow. I'm watching poor, white, ghetto culture take over this once beautiful area. Work a bit, deal a bit, drink, drug and screw as many woman as you can because there is little chance to go down the solid citizen route.

Speaking of WV did you see this piece?
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV

I don't read the Charleston Gazette, but I do know a lot about the pill business in rural W.Va. Poverty and desperation and little chance for a good man to make a good life leads many to drugs. A man dealing drugs outside the city can make a lot of money, get plenty of respect (and women) and has a minuscule chance of getting caught (everyone knows everyone and nobody turns anybody in.)

This subject really depresses me and when I talk to young men around here I highly recommend they MOVE to where the JOBS are. And do it fast before you get hooked into the drug culture.