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Why is The Opioid Crisis Now a National Emergency?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 74841941:MV8zNjc1MTE5XzY1NjgwNjczX0NGMERDODE5] [quote:Tarnished Halo:MV8zNjc1MTE5XzcwRTgxNjMy] I just find it fascinating that suddenly POS drug addicts are now causing everyone to freak out in this country. [/quote] It's worse now. I have a friend who's a paramedic in Providence, on most days she spends her whole shift going from one overdose scene to the next, sometimes the same house twice in a day. The next overdose call sometimes comes in while they're transporting the previous. And it's not junkies in the ghetto. It's middle class suburban kids 15-25. A good friend of mine is a cop in an upper middle class Massachusetts town. Almost on a daily basis now he's finding people passed out in cars after shooting up... not overdosed usually but just asleep after shooting up a bit too much. The old timers in the department say it was never like this. [/quote]
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I just find it fascinating that suddenly POS drug addicts are now causing everyone to freak out in this country. Are any of you old enough to remember when crack first hit the market? What about the heroin epidemic in the late 70's and early 80's? What is happening now that is so different?
What does declaring a public health emergency do? Does it open up the checkbook of the government?
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