Opioid Epidemic 'Getting Worse Instead of Better,' Public Health Officials Warn

[numbah1grimey]

"nearly half of America's largest cities is one quarter black, thats why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack"

Mighty Mos Def!!

 

[Jimmy Two Times]

The hell is this dude talking bout?

W/o the government allowing cocaine into the country YOU DON'T HAVE CRACK. CRACK COMES FROM COCAINE.


Which is why the laws on crack vs powder was clearly racial.

Ya they did allow it in the country but they didn't introduce it like alot of people say. Crack is what messed everything up.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Not sure if this **** called carfentanil is popping up down south, though i wouldnt be surprised.

"And last month, Durham Regional Police seized enough of the synthetic opioid — considered 100 times more potent than its derivative, fentanyl, and as much as 10,000 times stronger than morphine — to wipe out a small city."

http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/carfentanil-the-drug-of-mass-destruction

Dude got caught with 53 kilos of the ****, street value 13mill, and like 30 burners. Smh

Holy ****

 

[getback]

It only take 1 "sand sized" grain of fetanyl to kill a human. That's the stuff people have been injecting and OD'ing on unknowingly the past few years. Only a matter of time before that carfentanil stuff starts being cut with dope and the OD numbers skyrocket even more. Lambs to the slaughter.

 

[ahat]

It only take 1 "sand sized" grain of fetanyl to kill a human. That's the stuff people have been injecting and OD'ing on unknowingly the past few years. Only a matter of time before that carfentanil stuff starts being cut with dope and the OD numbers skyrocket even more. Lambs to the slaughter.

You already know thats what dude was gonna do with that.

Plus 30+ burners... Someones plug got snatched up

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Ya they did allow it in the country but they didn't introduce it like alot of people say. Crack is what messed everything up.

People don't say the government introduced crack. Lol

It don't matter who introduced crack. The point is you don't have crack w/o cocaine. You can't deflect from a fact.

 

[seasoned vet]

Crack landed and right away they had to "lock these evil people up forever"


Opioid's and meth been big in white communities for years and it's "these people need help"

shocking that our oppressors find empathy and understanding when addressing an epidemic plauging their own people and communities after NOT extending the same to those that have been oppressed for hundreds of years

absolutely shocking

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Salute this sistah

 

[rustlenomics]

Crack was pretty much a direct response to the black panthers and civil rights movement, imagine brothas and sistas still unified by principles to improve life for their community and protect their own with education and healthy food alternatives, there was way too much for the African American community to gain meanwhile Amerikkka would lose nothing in the process besides prisoners and the usual stereotyping of the violent drugged out Blackman.

Had crack not happened the cop killings would be met with national outrage and people would be held accountable, but because of crack they can tap into the fear of the black man inside of white america.

I’m not black but the injustices to our people of color is beyond disgusting, we are now watching as families are being torn apart and sent to Internment camps like they did with the Japanese during ww2, instead now they call em ice detention centers and they’re rounding up innocent people, they are blaming hispanics for the heroin coming in and for putting those syringes and meth pipes in white amerikkkas mouth.

 

[Jimmy Two Times]

Crack was pretty much a direct response to the black panthers and civil rights movement

they call em ice detention centers and they’re rounding up innocent people

But the government didn't invent crack ..

Are you saying illegal immigrants are innocent ?

 

[T Lo Sweater]

But the government didn't invent crack ..

Are you saying illegal immigrants are innocent ?

The whole war on drugs bs

 

[tomdiginson]

So much facts in this thread.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

For those of you unfamiliar, read journalist Gary Webb's Dark Alliance pieces if you can find on the internet. It connects all the dots to the CIA's cocaine trafficking starting in black neighborhoods like LA's South Central & various boroughs in NYC & the contras. reagan & his regime were evil POSs.

It's crazy of pharma lobbies have politicians wrapped around their fingers that helped them do their bidding & push opioids on the public causing this. I

The prison lobby has been ultra successful to in privatizing prisons & keeping them full. Its an open war on the poor/minorities & they'd rather put them in prison that help them.

 

[feeninlikejodeci]

girls that were gorgeous were looking busted selling themselves or trading sex for drugs, nobody was older than 24 during this time.

Crazy thing is, this happens alot more than you'd think (and for alot less)

Weed
Xanax
Adderall
Molly

Your average college girl has done all of the above, and chances are she does 1 on a regular basis ($200-300 month habit). These girls working $12/hr jobs, yet somehow manage to keep a fresh wardrobe, hairstyle, pedi/mani and other spa services

Even low level drug dealers get laid like crazy. Seen this bummy looking white guy riding a KIDS BICYCLE down the street, and he chats up this dimepiece I was about to approach. , this dude was wearing second hand clothes from a thrift store it looked like. Girbaud Jean Shorts, oversize yellow stained White Tee, "Stunna Shades" from 2006, beat up pair of white on white AF1s with a bunch of creases/scuffs and excessive dirt. While she looked upper middle class (Kourtney Kardashian style)

Mind was blown that day...

 

[Jimmy Two Times]

For those of you unfamiliar, read journalist Gary Webb's Dark Alliance pieces if you can find on the internet. It connects all the dots to the CIA's cocaine trafficking starting in black neighborhoods like LA's South Central & various boroughs in NYC & the contras

Interesting read from Gary Webbs editor Jerry Ceppos, who initially supported all of Webb's claims, wrote himself after an internal investigation of the "Dark Alliance" series.

https://web.archive.org/web/19971119070955/http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/column051197.htm

 

[rustlenomics]

But the government didn't invent crack ..

Are you saying illegal immigrants are innocent ?

not saying they "invented" it but they did have a hand in making sure it was peddled into black and latino neighborhoods, they had a bunch of operations going on to discredit the panthers and other organizations that were helping their communities out, the government needed an excuse to wage war on its citizens after the failure that was vietnam.
they had to use all of their new military toys on someone so why not bring tanks and heavily armored soldiers into communites of color and bulldoze entire homes even if they werent the right place or because they had intel that someone was selling rocks.

they started charging people by the rock meanwhile wallstreet dudes were carrying pounds of powder and were given probation, theres still people dying in prisons because of outdated laws that were made to disrupt the black community specifically, no treatment for those men and women.

crack babies were all the rage, meanwhile white women are giving birth to heroin addicts and they have to be put on methadone then go through withdrawal.

you get a glimpse into the nonsense the CIA was into with these newly released JFK papers, they mention how far the FBI went to try to discredit Dr.king, aside from that, the whole cointelpro thing where they turned the black panthers into each other, then you got the iran contra thing.

the feds were bored during late 70's-early 90's they had to create a new fear.

 

[cedric ceballos]

The opioid crisis = trailer park trash crackheads.

No sympathy for their poor life choices from me.

 

[ahat]

http://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/cit...tion-facility-opens-at-tph-building-1.3668621

They opened first permanent supervised injection site here

 

[ahat]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/29/w18-calgary-police_n_9114152.html

Another derivative called W18. Similar to Carfentanil, 10,000 times stronger than morphine and 100 times more than Fentanyl.

http://www.cp24.com/news/drug-trafficking-ring-corrupted-tps-employee-to-spy-for-them-rcmp-1.3670788

"Leather said the sustained seizures of fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, have given way to the discovery of even more powerful opoids which were previously only used to sedate large animals and are often lethal to drug users."

“Even more powerful substitutes are beginning to appear. Shipments of Carefentanil and W18, which are both 100 times stronger than fentanyl, have recently been seized by police in Canada.”

 

[getback]

The opioid crisis = trailer park trash crackheads.

No sympathy for their poor life choices from me.

Nah the trailer park folks mess with meth. Pills and heroin are literally everywhere. Colleges, suburbs, rural areas, inner city.

 

[Jimmy Two Times]

http://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/cit...tion-facility-opens-at-tph-building-1.3668621

They opened first permanent supervised injection site here

I think this is the way to go.

 

[ahat]

http://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/dru...erdose-prompts-police-investigation-1.3681035

"An officer with the Toronto Police Service's drug squad died of a fentanyl overdose earlier this year, prompting police to conduct an investigation.

Const. Michael Thompson was found at his Durham Region home in medical distress on April 10, 2017.

He was rushed to hospital, where he died three days later.

In a statement released Thursday, Acting Chief Jim Ramer confirmed that Thompson, 37, died from a fentanyl overdose.

According to Ramer, the amount of fentanyl found in his system was “too large to have been caused by mere contact with that drug.”

An investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the officer’s death but police say “many questions remain unanswered.”

“We have questions such as where did Michael obtain the drugs that he took but those are questions that we may never have answers to,” police spokesperson Meaghan Gray told CP24 on Thursday afternoon. “Michael was a member of the drug squad so he could have gotten the drugs from the unit itself or got them at the street level.”

Thompson joined the Toronto Police Service in 2006 and was assigned to the drug squad in 2014.

Gray said that Thompson was a “professional and dedicated police officer who was well respected by his colleagues.”

She said that police have notified the Crown in upcoming cases that Thompson was involved with about his death and the circumstances surrounding it. The fate of those cases is not immediately clear.

“We had to disclose Michael’s death and the reason for that death to the crown as part of disclosure process. There are cases that Michael was involved in that are coming forward through the justice system as early as next Monday. The Crown will have to make a decision as to how to proceed or not. I don’t know what that decision will be nor do I know how many other cases there are,” Gray said,

In his statement, Ramer said that the wellness of members of the TPS is a “significant priority” for the organization.

He said that while there are many resources available to TPS employees to help them deal with various personal issues, he noted that the service needs to “better understand if we can provide additional support to members.”

Meanwhile, in a statement issued late Thursday afternoon Mayor John Tory offered his condolences “on behalf of the people of Toronto” and expressed his support for a review of whether or not additional supports could be provided to TPS members.

“I understand that Constable Thompson's death on April 10 shocked the service and sparked an ongoing investigation into the death itself and surrounding circumstances. I support the service reviewing whether it can provide additional support to its members for their wellness,” he said."

 

[hand2handking]

Ohio police asking for help after mother of nine dies from overdose

http://nbc4i.com/2017/12/14/ohio-police-asking-for-help-after-mother-of-nine-dies-from-overdose/

MIDDLETOWN, OH (WCMH) — Police in Middletown are asking for help after a mother of nine kids died from an overdose in front of the children.

According to the Middletown Division of Police, officers were called to a residence Wednesday night on the report of an unresponsive female.

Police say when officers arrived on scene, they found the mother of nine children dead from a heroin overdose.

According to officers two men, who may have been a father/son duo and were with the woman when she began to overdose, left the mother to die in front of her nine kids.

“The father had gray hair and gray facial hair with a red and black coat on. The son had on a brown jacket and was of thin build,” police wrote in a Facebook post.

While police posted the information to their Facebook page to help search for the two men, they also are using it to ask for help for the woman’s children.

“We will take anything you are willing to donate. We need clothing desperately, we need coats, blankets, food, a stove, a refrigerator, we even need ornaments for the Christmas tree we just took to them and of course toys. The kids range in age from 14 to 1. They are: female-14, boy-13, boy-11, boy-10, boy-6, girl-5, girl-3, boy-2 and girl 1,” police wrote.

According to police, anyone wanting to make a donation can bring goods to the police department at 1 Donham Plaza, Middletown, Ohio.

 

[hand2handking]

Former DEA agent shares insight into solving America’s opioid epidemic

Former DEA Special Agent and President of The TITAN Group, Jack Teitelman (right), at American Pain Association’s Turn The Tide Summit with Former NFL Offensive Lineman, Todd Herremans (left), commented on the opioid crisis with fellow Athletes For CAREAmbassadors, Super Bowl champion Marvin Washington (center).

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...-solving-americas_us_5a2f53d6e4b0cf10effbb00a

Alongside New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, medical experts and former pro athletes,Jack Teitelman, was “honored” to participate in the inaugural Turn The Tide Summithosted by The American Pain Association (APA) and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Addressing challenges and strategies to combat America’s opioid epidemic, at Camden’sCooper Medical School of Rowan University last week, the Former DEA Supervisory Special Agent and President of The TITAN Group said “As various strategies for addressing the rising tide of addiction and abuse of opioid pain medications were discussed, one of the issues that came up was the stigma of opioid addiction.”

“No one chose to be an addict,” said Teitelman, who “never once” in his 26 years in the field meet “someone that wanted to be an addict.”

Citing “a lack of willingness to discuss the epidemic, particularly for anyone who has dealt with opioid abuse firsthand,” the expert in “all things drugs” said “those who have lost someone to opioid addiction, or who are currently dealing with an addicted loved one, don’t want to talk about it.”

Referencing Governor Christie’s keynote address, Teitelman said the opioid crisis in America is a “silent epidemic.”

“There is a social stigma associated with addiction that makes people feel ashamed and often includes an underlying belief that addicts are weak or immoral,” said Teitelman, a New Jersey native and leader of a full-service regulatory compliance, drug security and anti-diversion solutions provider.

“Stigma says that it’s a choice that individuals have taken, one they can control, and one that results from being morally inferior. More than a judgment of the behavior, the stigma around addiction casts judgment upon the person, leading to feelings of disdain,” said Teitelman.

“Such stigmas perpetuate feelings of shame, an emotion closely linked to fear. The combination of shame and fear together can be lethal,” said the author who has studied the drug industry for the past 32 years.

Retired DEA Special Agent Jack Teitelman brings his extensive experience in law enforcement to The TITAN GROUP, with more than three decades of continuous leadership expertise in government, security, law enforcement, and private industry.

A volunteer with Power Forward, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the stigma of opioid addiction, Teitelman’s personal experience with opioids are rooted in his days as a high school and college student-athlete that left him with a long list of injuries and significant chronic pain.

During the summit, Teitelman joined several medical experts and former professional athletes from Athletes For CARE, a nonprofit raising awareness of issues concerning current and former professional athletes, one being addiction to pain medications due to injuries incurred while competing.

Speaking on how he took a “dark turn“ while using pain medications to stay on the field, Former NFL Offensive Lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles and Indianapolis Colts, Todd Herremans, commented on the crisis with fellow Athletes For CARE Ambassadors, Super Bowl champion Marvin Washington and Former Philadelphia Flyers enforcer, Riley Cote.

“It’s not something you talk about,” Cote said. “There are a lot of people making money off people dying. We need to speak up and have the tough conversations and dialogue to end this epidemic.”

The Turn The Tide Summit also featured guest lectures by Dr. Edgar Ross, Director of the Pain Management Center at Harvard Medical School; Dr. J. Cheng, Director of theCleveland Clinic Pain Fellowship Program; Dr. Michael Sabia, Chair of Cooper University Hospital Pain Program; and Dr. Vanila Singh, Chief Medical Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(HHS).

“We each have a role to play in shaping social stigma around opioid addictionand substance use disorders,” said Teitelman.

“Rather than perpetuating the societal shame that is contributing to a national crisis, we can help reduce it by sharing our experiences, extending support and cultivating a safe environment for those dealing with addiction.

“Together, we can be the community that encourages others to pursue their potential, rather than hide their struggles.,” Teitelman said.

 

[hand2handking]

Grandmother kills baby by putting opioid in sippy cup, gets 20 years

http://pix11.com/2017/12/18/grandmother-kills-baby-by-putting-opioid-in-sippy-cup-gets-20-years/

PICKENS, SC — A South Carolina woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her grandson by putting OxyContin in his sippy cup, according to the solicitor’s office.

WSPA reports that 46-year-old Angela Denise Brewer was convicted of homicide by child abuse last week.

Deputies arrived at the home on Oct. 17, 2014, to find a family member performing CPR on the unresponsive 14-month-old boy.

The child was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Results from forensic testing during the autopsy found the toddler had a lethal dose of OxyContin in his system.

Investigators say OxyContin was found in a sippy cup provided to the child by his grandmother, Brewer, who was the boy’s caregiver the day he died.