I listen to all the presidential candidates promise what they're going to do to save the nation. Call me a skeptic but I really believe they could care less about the people and the greatness of this country and curing its ills and I'm referring to both Democrats and Republicans.
Ohio is the epicenter of the opioid crisis in America. It started here, specifically in Portsmouth, Ohio which borders the northern side of the Ohio River across from Kentucky. It began in the 1960's and has spread its tentacles not only across the state but the nation.
The statistics for the number of deaths from opioids in Franklin Country Ohio for the first nine months of 2019 are in. Franklin County is the City of Columbus plus a few outlying suburbs. Its population is on the shy side of one million. And the stats tell us 444 people died from drugs in those five months. Of these 86% were due to fentanyl. Most of these deaths were humans between the ages of 30-49.
The War on Drugs is a waste of time. Didn't the Reagan Administration have a War on Drugs? Yes, it did. Every administration, national and state, claims they will wage a War on Drugs. The Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, a republican ran on a platform of taking on the War on Drugs. "Mike, if you were a college football coach you'd have been fired by now".
Car accident deaths, gun deaths, doctors mistakes, cancer: They all pale in comparison to the number of opioid deaths and there is no specific plan of action because it's too far out of control.
Sad, huh?
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