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This is a really sad story of how America is failing the middle class. Ohio used to be a major manufacturing hub - no longer. Now there are more deaths from her
by lmg643 11y ago
This is a really sad story of how America is failing the middle class. Ohio used to be a major manufacturing hub - no longer. Now there are more deaths from heroin overdose in Ohio than car crashes. It started with the widespread accessibility of Oxycontin, then after the reformulation, heroin.
Chicago is the major importing hub for drugs - hence all the violence - and it fans out from there. We have no border security in the south, and people wonder how the drugs get in. The US is not powerless to stop any of this, but we need to admit we have a serious problem and start implementing solutions.
- MagicWishMonkey 11y agoI don't see how this is a middle class failure issue. We should prescribe less opiates, full stop. Without over prescription this issue would not exist.
- rdlecler1 11y agoThat's just a silly, uninformed blanket statement. Please. Give me an ounce of evidence to support this sweeping claim.
- aianus 11y agoWe'd condemn people who've done nothing wrong to a life of constant pain.
- DanBC 11y agoNo. We'd be giving people who have chronic pain better treatment of that pain without addicting them to opioids. People with long term pain need rapid access to pain management clinics. They often need to detox off the not-working opioids they were previously prescribed. Then they need to start running through the other alternative.
- aianus 11y agoWhat's better than opioids? Who cares if they're addicted to opioids if the alternative is pain and suffering?
- DanBC 11y agoYou're making the mistake of thinking that people addicted to opioids are also getting pain relief from those opioids, when actually they still have the pain, and then they have the problems of an addiction on top. > What's better than opioids? That depends on the condition. An answer was already given here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10285321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10285321 In general people with chronic pain need access to pain management clinics; physical rehab; and a range of medication - including if needed opioids.
- stephengillie 11y agoThe downfall of American industry and manufacturing didn't start with "the widespread accessibility of Oxycontin". It started with the Globalization movement, where poorly-paid foreign labor was combined with then-decreasing costs of global shipping. Since when is Chicago a major hub for importing drugs? What's your source? From where are they imported and how - air? Why do you tangent to border security?
- wahsd 11y agoWhat the upper class would never say and the middle class never realized is that "globalization" was nothing more than relaunching and outsourcing slavery and improving on it by making it far more efficient than having take care of slaves.
- lmg643 11y agoEl Chapo is the head of the sinaloa cartel: "Chicago, home of the Mercantile Exchange, has always been a hub from which legitimate goods fan out across the country, and it’s no different for black-market commodities. Chapo has used the city as a clearinghouse since the early 1990s; he once described it as his “home port.”" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dru... "Chicago is a major trafficking route for Mexican cartels and has become a hub for the distribution of heroin across the Midwest. The dangerous result has been an increase in heroin overdose deaths in Illinois." http://www.wbez.org/news/heroin-its-cheap-its-available-and-its-dangerous-business-109304 http://www.wbez.org/news/heroin-its-cheap-its-available-and-... It's a border security issue because the drugs are coming from the south, by gangs that can operate across the border almost unchallenged.
- pstuart 11y agoWorse yet, the police spend more time looking for "drug money" to keep for themselves rather than looking for drugs.