Opioid "Crisis" by the numbers

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

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So officers like Eric Adams, a white former undercover narcotics detective in Laconia, are finding new ways to respond. He is deployed full time now by the Police Department to reach out to people who have overdosed and help them get treatment.

"The way I look at addiction now is completely different," Mr. Adams said. "I can't tell you what changed inside of me, but these are people and they have a purpose in life and we can't as law enforcement look at them any other way. They are committing crimes to feed their addiction, plain and simple. They need help."

Nothing changed inside of him. The only change was the race of the addict.

 

[hashmander]

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Nothing changed inside of him. The only change was the race of the addict.

it's so touching. he's just filled with compassion. i hope one of those fiends stabs him with a dirty needle.

 

[Serious]

I actually read an article earlier that gives a different perspective. In short, doctors are less likely to prescribe minorities these types of prescription painkillers.


Why are black Americans less affected by the opioid epidemic? Racism, probably.

their racism and prejudice saved our community from being overprescribed

 

[NZA]

mcgruff the crime dog did his job at my school, apparently he didnt go to the outskirts of phoenix to help those other brehs...

 

[BK The Great]

they need to eliminate all of these drugs period, turning kids and adults to crack heads

 

[Sire366]

that 50-65 group fukkin with something.

They are doing the same stuff, the body just cannot take the abuse anymore

 

[ZEB WALTON]

rap music has caused a DRASTIC increase of opoid abuse in the black community; especially here in the nj/philly/nyc area... idk what yall talking about getting all excited and shyt cause whites dying. the doctors did this shyt.

and the numbers they give will NEVER be close to the truth of how many people do that shyt

 

[BaileyPark31]

'There was no compassion for Black addicts'

 

[JoogJoint]

I'm thankful that doctors under treated me for pain. Now they are killing off their own community.

 

[Firefly]

rap music has caused a DRASTIC increase of opoid abuse in the black community; especially here in the nj/philly/nyc area... idk what yall talking about getting all excited and shyt cause whites dying. the doctors did this shyt.

and the numbers they give will NEVER be close to the truth of how many people do that shyt

NAW Philly Syrup and Pills Pre-Dates any rappers talking about that shyt. Always was bad in Philly. I'm talking early mid-90's

Malik B of the Roots fell victim to it bad and this was like 1996........

When I lived there my friends were all doing that shyt, Xanax etc.......Aint nothing new about that. Always was bad. It was a casual drug up there because the MOB ran the Pharmacies so ALL those pills were flooding the streets, BEEN flooding the streets.......

 

[levitate]

Heroin Queens and Fatherless Fentanyl Addicts... Sad!