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>In Minnesota, one in five people seeking treatment is addicted to opiates, says Carol Falkowski, the former drug abuse strategy officer for Minnesota and a mem
by philip1209 14y ago
>In Minnesota, one in five people seeking treatment is addicted to opiates, says Carol Falkowski, the former drug abuse strategy officer for Minnesota and a member of the Community Epidemiology Working Group at the National Institute of Drug Abuse, which tracks trends in drug use.
>"Heroin is huge. We've never had anything like it in this state," she says. "It's very affordable. It's very high purity. Most people did not believe that heroin would happen here in Lake Woebegone, but it really has a grip, not only in the Twin Cities, but all around the state."
From Wikipedia:
> Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor, who reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon
- gee_totes 14y agoUmm.... USA Today didn't 'cite' anything. They published a quote with a mention of Lake Wobegon, which be interpreted to mean the state of Minnesota. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation