Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived
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#2The opioid epidemic is huge. Legal Cannabis is helping in some places, but it's still illegal at the federal level.
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#3> Local jails have been overrun with people locked up and in need of treatment
Why. Do. People. End. Up. In. Jail. Seriously this one is beyond my comprehension - they need treatment, not jails filled with hardened criminals, rapists and probably more (and nastier) drugs than on the street.
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#4> Local jails have been overrun with people locked up and in need of treatment Why. Do. People. End. Up. In. Jail. Seriously this one is beyond my comprehension - they need treatment, not jails filled with hardened criminals, rapists and probably more (and nastier) drugs than on the street.
War on drugs & big government.
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#5This reminds me that the lead singer of GWAR died in Richmond from a heroin overdose in 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brockie
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#6> Local jails have been overrun with people locked up and in need of treatment Why. Do. People. End. Up. In. Jail. Seriously this one is beyond my comprehension - they need treatment, not jails filled with hardened criminals, rapists and probably more (and nastier) drugs than on the street.
War on drugs & big government.
Realistically it starts with the race to the bottom WRT being "tough on crime".
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#7Most of this stems from the overprescription of opioids. I remember when I had surgery for a broken leg the amount of drugs I received after the surgery was astounding. It was almost as if the hospital wanted me to become hooked. I didn't need or ask for the opioids, they were just prescribed for pain killing. A regular Tylenol or Advil would have done the job. Not saying hospitals want people on drugs, but at some point we have hold the people initially prescribing the drugs accountable.
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#8> Local jails have been overrun with people locked up and in need of treatment Why. Do. People. End. Up. In. Jail. Seriously this one is beyond my comprehension - they need treatment, not jails filled with hardened criminals, rapists and probably more (and nastier) drugs than on the street.
It's a long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation#Consequ...
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#9Just the other morning I got off of bart in downtown Oakland, 12th street and there was a guy just laid out, unresponsive right on the steps outside the station. He had smoked something out of a can. I stuck with the guy while the paramedics came, but the most tragic part was that he had a plastic "No Allergies" bracelet on. When the paramedics took off his shirt he still had adhesive on his skin from the EKG straps or what not. So he had gotten out of the hospital and then immediately ODed (presumably again).
I'm not sure what we need to do, but if you haven't encountered the epidemic first hand, it's only a matter of time until you do.
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#10> Local jails have been overrun with people locked up and in need of treatment Why. Do. People. End. Up. In. Jail. Seriously this one is beyond my comprehension - they need treatment, not jails filled with hardened criminals, rapists and probably more (and nastier) drugs than on the street.
Like my uncle says, a cop, "what would we do then". Drug & alcohol related arrests are 99% of their work.