El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis
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#2If you haven't, I highly suggest you read Don Winslow's two books about this: The Power of the Dog and The Cartel. Both are fantastic.
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#3I stopped reading after the lead:
> If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week
About 3,000 people died today and about 60,000 got seriously injured in car accidents TODAY, according to ASIRT. I think the word "grips" is a bit of stretch here, no?
> take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels.
How is that legalizing sales of Apples will somehow made Oranges' lovers to switch? Hard to believe. Any proof of that??
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#4We need a stronger border to prevent heroin from entering our country.
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#5I stopped reading after the lead: > If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week About 3,000 people died today and about 60,000 got seriously injured in car accidents TODAY, according to ASIRT. I think the word "grips" is a bit of stretch here, no? > take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How is that legal…
You stopped reading too soon. This is like a train-wreck of unintended consequences.
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#6We need a stronger border to prevent heroin from entering our country.
Make borders great again!
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#7We need a stronger border to prevent heroin from entering our country.
There is no evidence to suggest that would be successful.
A "stronger border" and "higher walls" are nothing but campaign slogans.
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#8I stopped reading after the lead: > If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week About 3,000 people died today and about 60,000 got seriously injured in car accidents TODAY, according to ASIRT. I think the word "grips" is a bit of stretch here, no? > take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How is that legal…
Multiple people working on multiple things.
Tesla is trying to solve the car death problem, others are trying to stop deaths from super potent mexican heroin.
Both are noble pursuits and will save thousands of lives.
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#9Of the people I've known who died due to heroin, all of them got started off on narcotic pain killers prescribed by unscrupulous doctors.
One of my friends in university got hooked on pills his doctor prescribed for his back pain. The guy was 300+lbs, maybe that had something to do with the pain? Who cares, pump him full of pills! A year later he was on heroin. Three years later he was dead.
Nobody but a complete degenerate wakes up one day and says "You know what, I think I'm going to mainline some heroin." Opioid addiction starts with pills. If you take heroin out of the equation, they're going to start making krokodil or some other shit. You can't solve the drug problem until you solve the doctor problem.
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#10We need a stronger border to prevent heroin from entering our country.
I can't tell... are you being sarcastic?