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Columbus, Ohio - rated by Forbes as #29 in the Top 50 Safest Cities to Live, in 2011 reached an all-time high in drug overdose deaths with 1,765 deaths. According to The Columbus Dispatch, one Ohioan died every five hours that year from a drug over-dose. In fact, since 1999, Columbus' drug overdose deaths have increased 440 percent. The drug problems appear to be pain killers such as OxyContin. From 1997 to 2010, prescriptions for OxyContin increased from 7 to 67 during this period, as reported by the Columbus Dispatch newspaper.
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Boston has drug issues too, not sure why you'd think it is better.
Well in spite of Rhode Island having the highest rate of substance abuse in the country, the problem literally stops at the Massachusetts border, making Boston totally exempt from drug issues.
Everyone knows Florida is cocaine state and most dangerous state / gunshine state .... 23 on the .... 100 most dangerous cities....or in Florida n south FLORIDA has 13 .... 1 in 3 bills n Florida has coke residue on it sadly....n murders robberies burglaries rapes don't come short .... Ex:ft Lauderdale had 103 murders ... Over 3,000 robbeies....(WELL OVER)6,000 burglaries n smallest 300 rapes .... I know right that's nothing compared to other cites in Florida ...
Staten Island has a bad heroin problem. I see needles a lot discarded on the ground and not a day goes by where I don't see some 15 year old sitting on the curb nodding out. Same with New England I know the Boston suburbs and VT/NH have heroin problems. Cities in NJ like Paterson and Newark have large open air drug selling markets.
Is there any major city in the US WITHOUT a drug problem going on right now? Pretty much once a city has a population that's over 400K, it starts to see some drug and homeless problems.
I mean, besides maybe Boston or Salt Lake City, I think drugs are a huge issue for everyone.
Boston and Massachusetts in general have became large heroin hot-spots since oxy was reformulated, one of the worst in the country. There is specials on TV all the time on Boston, definitely no different then any other big city.
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