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Blaze to Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago

The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County

www.newyorker.com

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The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County

www.newyorker.com

Blaze to Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago
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Students have overdosed during class, in bathrooms, and in an elementary-school parking lot.
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    …so they can tighten the screws even further, making lives even less happy, less prosperous, less rewarding. All they ever do is dig deeper into the mudpit they drag everyone down into.

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      Fentanyl deaths occur ONLY because drugs are illegal. ONLY

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        Most anything negative about drugs is because they are illegal. Fentanyl would be almost unheard of outside the silly war on drugs.

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          Let’s be real. The FAULT of %99 of drug deaths is explicitly the DEA & Prohibition.

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          Yup. Precisely.

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