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Old 06-29-2017, 06:25 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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A grandma's new role: Raising grandkids amid heroin epidemic - CNN.com


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I think there is a moral crisis going on in much of rural America and in many small cities these days.

Odd how big, big cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles and El Paso close to the border have a fraction of the problems that these small towns in West Virginia and Kentucky have.
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Old 06-29-2017, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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This is what you get when you take the work away from the people who need it most. This problem was only going to get worse under Clinton.
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Old 06-29-2017, 07:42 PM
 
Location: mancos
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Well your freaking wrong.I live in super rural America and we have none of these problems.Kinda like me finding a bad area of a city and claiming cities are all like that.You hate rural America so just say it and stop searching for an example to convince others to hate us.Trump won get over it.
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Old 06-29-2017, 07:56 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Odd how big, big cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles and El Paso close to the border have a fraction of the problems that these small towns in West Virginia and Kentucky have.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:00 PM
 
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A grandma's new role: Raising grandkids amid heroin epidemic - CNN.com


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I97qNMT_0Wo

I think there is a moral crisis going on in much of rural America and in many small cities these days.

Odd how big, big cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles and El Paso close to the border have a fraction of the problems that these small towns in West Virginia and Kentucky have.
Drugs go hand in hand with poverty quite often.

So, if you have a small town that is very impoverished then drugs will be a problem just like in the poorer parts of larger urban areas.

You provided no support for you claim that those towns have a "fraction" of the problem so I'd like to see you source that.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:02 PM
 
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And then there are people that want to legalize all drugs.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:03 PM
 
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This is what you get when you take the work away from the people who need it most. This problem was only going to get worse under Clinton.
And you think it's going to get better under Trump? Why?

There is an opiod epidemic in this country that no one wants to talk about. But soon it will be impossible to ignore.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:05 PM
 
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Drugs go hand in hand with poverty quite often.

So, if you have a small town that is very impoverished then drugs will be a problem just like in the poorer parts of larger urban areas.

You provided no support for you claim that those towns have a "fraction" of the problem so I'd like to see you source that.
That's not necessarily true. My son worked in a rehab center in a Midwest town of about 300,000 and he said the majority of their patients were white middle class teens and young adults. And their substance of choice was either OxyContin or heroin.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:06 PM
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And then there are people that want to legalize all drugs.
I wont do drugs legal or not. You?
I'd rather we decriminalize drugs and make welfare illegal.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Sad and pathetic to see that. Sounds like parts of West Virginia are about as bad as parts of Chicago and LA. Well, but without the murders.
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