Opioids are the symptom. The disease is something different.
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But drug misuse is definitely a problem and knows no boundaries when it comes to taking a hold of someone (i.e., rich or poor).
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When you have no way to improve your circumstances. When their is no help in sight. When the opportunity to provide for your family is taken away. When you can no longer survive on minimum wage.... Drugs are an escape. The problem is so much bigger than opioids.
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These “rural” voters because of our electoral college and 2 senators per state have so much more political representation than Urban voters why isn’t their political party - GOP making their situation better.
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Good luck on that. With GOP plans to scrape most social programs and a distaste for Friday addicts, Mitch and Paul will suggest tin cans, prophylactics and prayer. Vote them out. Vote.
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I agree. It’s the number one reason I haven’t moved back home to
#BatonRouge since moving to the West coast of America to get and maintain my sobriety from heroin. I would’ve been dead at my rate of using. It’s still crippling & killing my cousins and friends back home in#BRLA. - 1 more reply
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I find their desire for government help to be ironic. These were the same people who were shouting for inner city crack addicts to be jailed for life. Things that make you say “of course it would be different”.
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They are snorting coke like it is going out of style in the cities. It won’t be long before the new rural drug epidemic will match. It’ll be the crack epidemic all over again, minus the cost of Naloxone.
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There will never be a crack epidemic. People won’t allow that to happen, the demographic is different. That changes everything.
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You have no control over that. Plus, the crack epidemic has nothing to do with “demographics”.
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Oh yes it does, maybe not so much now, but in the 1980’s crack was a Black issue. The way to handle that drug epidemic was to jail the addicts, full stop. No rehab, no care, no hope. But now that this epidemic isn’t affecting the inner city, policies quickly changed. Truth.
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I agree the cities were hit particularly hard, but suburban and rural areas weren’t immune. The cities still have major drug issues. I’m telling you right now, they are sniffing cocaine in the cities like it is the 70’s again. It’s only a matter of time.
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Rural areas have a closure relationship with law enforcement, since they are elected officials in a lot of cases. They rely on the Sheriff’s Department and maybe a couple small town cops. They can get voted out and lose jobs real quick.
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And the Administration is not doing anything about it
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Opioids affect White folks so it’s an epidemic. While other drugs that plaque minority communities isn’t considered an epidemic.
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Why does NPR care, he's White?
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