The Opioid Crisis Is Surging In Black, Urban Communities

[reasonable_doubter]

Opioid crisis is just getting worse

"While the crisis began in rural America among low-income whites, it has now moved into larger urban areas, where minority communities now account for the fastest growth among overdoses and deaths. Emergency room visits in large cities rose by 54 percent over the last year, the CDC data show."

 

[Dr. Acula]

damn it.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

fukk

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

I believe it. Worked with a dude who said a few of his friends and cousins died from the shyt, not too long ago

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Anyone who gets seriously injured could get potentially addicted.

 

[88m3]

Please don't tell me you're surprised Coli

 

[BlackFruitPunch]

nikkas lost.

 

[John Mexico]

Y'all really thought it was just a white peoples disease?

fukk everything about the powers that be prescribing the shyt. There always will be opiates, hell they have always been around and truthfully there will always be a practical use. But we know who's setting the shyt off.

 

[NobleDrewAli]

Of course it is. Literally every song is about codeine, Oxy, Percs, Molly, hydros,etc. Nikkas been pill head junkies out here. This isn't new to black folks.


This really is sad though. Every heroin addict I know of got started by getting injured/surgery, got addicted to pills, then switched to Heroin cause it's cheaper. Shyt crazy.

 

[ORDER_66]

not buying it...they be down playing the epidemic in West va. Call me when they have actual freezer tucks for the boatload of overdoses in black neighborhoods. That something they STILL HAVE NOT ADDRESSED....

 

[Shogun]

Opioids are a white problem!
Opioids are a black problem!

How about opiods, and drugs in general are just a problem that Americans are facing?
Why is it so difficult to consider that whatever is causing this is not racially exclusive?

 

[Wild self]

Of course it is. Literally every song is about codeine, Oxy, Percs, Molly, hydros,etc. Nikkas been pill head junkies out here. This isn't new to black folks.


This really is sad though. Every heroin addict I know of got started by getting injured/surgery, got addicted to pills, then switched to Heroin cause it's cheaper. Shyt crazy.

Hate to say it to you, but people are a lot more educated now about drugs than ever before. At this time period, black folk who fukk with white people's drugs are nothing more than followers and c00ns. Like, you think that Future is lit with poppin pills and drinking lean?

Nah, if you are educated about those drugs and you take them willingly AFTER seeing white folks getting messed up with it, there is no need to sympathize.

 

[teacher]

Hate to say it to you, but people are a lot more educated now about drugs than ever before. At this time period, black folk who fukk with white people's drugs are nothing more than followers and c00ns. Like, you think that Future is lit with poppin pills and drinking lean?

Nah, if you are educated about those drugs and you take them willingly AFTER seeing white folks getting messed up with it, there is no need to sympathize.

People usually get addicted after a legal prescription due to trauma and/or surgery....The reason why it was a bigger issue for whites then blacks is because Doctors were more reluctant in prescribing opiate pain medication to minorities.... I guess now they just trying to even up the numbers

 

[Wild self]

People usually get addicted after a legal prescription due to trauma and/or surgery....The reason why it was a bigger issue for whites then blacks is because Doctors were more reluctant in prescribing opiate pain medication to minorities.... I guess now they just trying to even up the numbers

If it is a surgery, still bring up the warnings that addiction is a possibility. These doctors needs to still let white folks fukk with that.

 

[teacher]

If it is a surgery, still bring up the warnings that addiction is a possibility. These doctors needs to still let white folks fukk with that.

There are warnings on alcohol and cigarettes but we still have alcoholics ande nicotine feens