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- May 31, 2012
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by exmarx
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This all has to do with the war on drugs starting to finally affect Middle/Working Class white people instead of poor minorities.
During the debate my parents asked me where this "heroin epidemic" had come from since they remember heroin as something from the 80's. The answer is quite literally "white people":
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/30/us/31heroin-deaths.html
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Heroin-related deaths jumped 39 percent from 2012 to 2013, and the longer-term trends are equally disturbing: from 2002 to 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers have found that prior to the 1980s, whites and nonwhites were equally represented among first-time heroin users. But that’s changed as heroin use has expanded across other parts of the country.
Now, nearly 90 percent of the people who tried heroin for the first time in the past decade were white. And a growing number are middle-class or wealthy.
In a July report, the CDC found “significant increases in heroin use were found in groups with historically low rates of heroin use, including women and people with private insurance and higher incomes. The gaps between men and women, low and higher incomes, and people with Medicaid and private insurance have narrowed in the past decade.”
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by exmarx
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That's some impressive levels of selective reading to support a desired narrative, you sure its not an epidemic because of that part that said
Yes. Deaths are going up because it is infiltrating the white community, and thus is a problem. Please don't be willfully dense.
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