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It is something that I've been seeing for sometime now. Heroin use here in Memphis has been on the rise over the last decade or so and that has spilled out into neighboring towns & cities. It is different now than it apparently was back in the 60s and 70s, as it isn't largely poor, urban people that are addicted. There are a ton of young, white middle class kids in the suburbs that have used it and gotten hooked on it. For the life of me, I will never really understand how someone makes a conscious decision to stick a needle with heroin in their arm, know full well what it leads to and what the end game is.
There have been a number of other articles on this issue over the past few months. A major problem that these articles cover is the large number of opoid-based prescription drugs that have been manufactured, making it way more available for prescriptions and rife for abuse than it should be. One article recently mentioned that there were more opoid-based prescriptions in Mississippi than there are people. That is utter insanity and it shows just how greedly and lax the drug companies and doctors have been. Opoid-based prescription drugs are so powerful that they never should have become as widely-available as they are.
It is something that I've been seeing for sometime now. Heroin use here in Memphis has been on the rise over the last decade or so and that has spilled out into neighboring towns & cities. It is different now than it apparently was back in the 60s and 70s, as it isn't largely poor, urban people that are addicted. There are a ton of young, white middle class kids in the suburbs that have used it and gotten hooked on it. For the life of me, I will never really understand how someone makes a conscious decision to stick a needle with heroin in their arm, know full well what it leads to and what the end game is.
There have been a number of other articles on this issue over the past few months. A major problem that these articles cover is the large number of opoid-based prescription drugs that have been manufactured, making it way more available for prescriptions and rife for abuse than it should be. One article recently mentioned that there were more opoid-based prescriptions in Mississippi than there are people. That is utter insanity and it shows just how greedly and lax the drug companies and doctors have been. Opoid-based prescription drugs are so powerful that they never should have become as widely-available as they are.
Even back in the 60s & 70s the suburbs had heroin and other drug addictions residing within those communities. The focus was more so on the inner cities due to jump in crimes. It's truly is unbelievable that there's enough opioid based prescription drugs for every resident of Mississippi.
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