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Another Dem here. The opioid crisis starts in 2010. The Republicans took over the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. Congress then grounded to a halt and bro

Another Dem here. The opioid crisis starts in 2010. The Republicans took over the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. Congress then grounded to a halt and broadly rejected anything Obama proposed even going so far as to shut down the government. Congress is still halted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic#/media/File%3AOverdose_Deaths_Involving_Opioids%2C_United_States%2C_2000-2015.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic#/media/File%... Not sure why the governing party isn’t being held responsible for, you know, governing. The transgender kids and sexual assault of college women coverage was on Fox. Again, guns, gays and god ain’t gonna get us out of this. But it will deliver the votes in places like WV.

throwit12347 9y ago
BS the opioid crisis was in full swing by 2010 and began in the late 90s early 2000s that graph you have linked to shows as much. This thread sure reads as though you're keen on burying your head in the sand. The spike in heroin deaths in 2010 is because of a crackdown on pill mills and the opiate addicts having to find another fix
- CalChris 9y ago
  The prescription drug part of the crisis begins in 2010 at the inflection point. Those prescriptions were something a willful Congress could have addressed.
  - throwit12347 9y ago
    Lol no it didn't read your own submission, you appear to be an empty ideologue >What the U.S. Surgeon General calls "The Opioid Crisis" likely began with over-prescription of powerful opioid pain relievers in the 1990s, which led to them becoming the most prescribed class of medications in the United States. Edit: also when you edit your post please make note of it, that's the third version of your post now
catawbasam 9y ago
Not just Fox. I read the Washington Post.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> The opioid crisis starts in 2010. People innth field were talking about it before that, but meth was still getting more attention; that's pretty much true of each of the unbroken sequence of specific-drug abuse crises, too.
throwitDownNow 9y ago
I've heard rumblings about the biased moderation on here this takes the cake, it's a sad state of affairs in this place. Your own submissions state your timeline and recollection of the past is incorrect. You use inflammatory language throughout your entire posts and yet...

throwit12347 9y ago

BS the opioid crisis was in full swing by 2010 and began in the late 90s early 2000s that graph you have linked to shows as much. This thread sure reads as though you're keen on burying your head in the sand. The spike in heroin deaths in 2010 is because of a crackdown on pill mills and the opiate addicts having to find another fix

CalChris 9y ago
The prescription drug part of the crisis begins in 2010 at the inflection point. Those prescriptions were something a willful Congress could have addressed.
- throwit12347 9y ago
  Lol no it didn't read your own submission, you appear to be an empty ideologue >What the U.S. Surgeon General calls "The Opioid Crisis" likely began with over-prescription of powerful opioid pain relievers in the 1990s, which led to them becoming the most prescribed class of medications in the United States. Edit: also when you edit your post please make note of it, that's the third version of your post now

catawbasam 9y ago

Not just Fox. I read the Washington Post.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> The opioid crisis starts in 2010. People innth field were talking about it before that, but meth was still getting more attention; that's pretty much true of each of the unbroken sequence of specific-drug abuse crises, too.

throwitDownNow 9y ago

I've heard rumblings about the biased moderation on here this takes the cake, it's a sad state of affairs in this place. Your own submissions state your timeline and recollection of the past is incorrect. You use inflammatory language throughout your entire posts and yet...