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user-inactivated  ·  2690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How bad is America's opioid epidemic?

Yeap. Indiana even gets the bonus of a full blown AIDS epidemic about an hour from where I live. Pence did somewhere between Jack and Squat to combat the problem as it blew up, and now he is V.P.

To give a "white guy whom never did drugs and is disgusted by those do" perspective... Asians in the US tend to have stronger families, make more money and less likely to live at or below the poverty line. Poor whites in rural areas and poor blacks and Latinos in inner cities are more likely to do heroin, because as you say, it is cheap.

Now, the real question is where is all this heroin coming in from all the sudden? Thanks for the link to the Frontline episode. I saw people talking about it, reminds me to listen to it in the background while I do data entry tonight.