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The Opioid Crisis in America and Mexico
Topic Started: Aug 2 2017, 04:15 AM (318 Views)
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August 1, 2017

By Louis Epstein, Extramural Contributor at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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We don't have an opioid crisis....What we have here are too many junkies............. :oyvey
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oh, it seems Afghan opium production, which multiplied under American occupation of Afghanistan - has finally reached the US....

Jake, I'm surprized it was not you who posted this article... :)
It's time for you to repeat "Russia sucks", I suppose :)
Though, tripling of drugs caused deaths just within 4 years is quite impressive, another several years of such economic recovery and you will reach Russian catastrophe of 90s.... and by the time when US debt pyramid funally collapses all who would die in turbulence, chaos and hunger would have been already dead. Good choice! :)
Edited by Siberian, Aug 2 2017, 09:32 AM.
Goood morning GULAG!!!
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THOUSANDS DIED IN OPIOID CRISIS WHILE TRUMP COMMISSION STALLED ON DELIVERING CRUCIAL REPORT
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THE PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis called on President Trump Monday to declare a public health emergency over the epidemic of overdose deaths nationwide. This urgency came in an interim report by the commission that was itself more than a month late.
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High-profile lawyers targeted in Mexico spyware scandal
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s surveillance scandal widened Wednesday to encompass a pair of prominent human rights attorneys probing a multiple homicide case whose victims include a photojournalist and an activist.

The internet watchdog Citizen Lab said lawyers Karla Micheel Salas and David Pena were targeted in 2015, weeks after they questioned prosecutors’ handling of the killings of activist Nadia Vera, journalist Ruben Espinosa and three other women in a Mexico City apartment in July that year. The victims were tortured and shot to death.
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2015 file photo, a photograph of murdered photojournalist Ruben Espinosa sits among flowers and candles in front of his casket inside a funeral home before his wake begins in Mexico City. Mexico’s surveillance scandal widened Wednesday, August 2 2017, to encompass a pair of prominent human rights attorneys probing a multiple homicide case whose victims include a photojournalist and an activist. The internet watchdog Citizen Lab said Karla Micheel Salas and David Pena were targeted in 2015, weeks after they questioned prosecutors’ handling of the killings of activist Nadia Vera, journalist Ruben Espinosa and three other women in a Mexico City apartment in July that year. The victims were tortured and shot to death. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
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We don't have an opioid crisis....What we have here are too many junkies............. :oyvey
More ignorance on this subject from this poster ...

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Mexican Dirty Wars: Violence against Journalists
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There is an ongoing silent war against investigative journalism in Mexico. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ 2017 Armed Conflict Survey, Mexico’s war on drugs is the second-most-lethal conflict in the world only after the war in Syria, even though it has received much less attention than other conflicts. The declared war on drugs, though, has brought on an undeclared war on freedom of the press and political expression. Over 100 journalists have been murdered or “disappeared” in the country since 2000. Mexico already leads the list of “deadliest countries” for journalists this year, with four “motive confirmed” killings reported thus far;[ii] “motive confirmed” meaning that there is enough evidence to prove that they were killed because of the nature of their work.
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Mexico’s Deadliest Town. Mexico’s Deadliest Year.
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TECOMÁN, Mexico — He slumped in a shabby white chair, his neck unnaturally twisted to the right. A cellphone rested inches away, as if he had just put it down. His unlaced shoes lay beneath outstretched legs, a morbid still life of what this town has become.

Israel Cisneros, 20, died instantly in his father’s one-room house. By the time the police arrived at the crime scene, their second homicide of the night, the blood seeping from the gunshot wound to his left eye had begun to harden and crack, leaving a skin of garish red scales over his face and throat.

This was once one of the safest parts of Mexico, a place where people fleeing the nation’s infamous drug battles would come for sanctuary. Now, officials here in Tecomán, a quiet farming town in the coastal state of Colima, barely shrug when two murders occur within hours of each other. It’s just not that uncommon any more.
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Tecomán is part of what was once one of the safest states in Mexico. Now bodies are a commonplace sight. Credit Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times

Mexico violence: Gunmen kill three on Baja California Sur beach
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Gunmen have killed three people and wounded two others on a popular beach in north-western Mexico, officials say.
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In a separate development, a mass grave with the bodies of 14 people - 11 men and three women - was uncovered in a mountainous region of Valparaíso, in the northern state of Zacatecas.
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TRUMP’S OPIOID COMMISSION HAD SOME STUNNINGLY GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS. HE IGNORED THEM FOR 80S DRUG WAR NOSTALGIA.
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION will not declare a public health emergency on the opioid epidemic, dismissing the top recommendation his own blue-ribbon commission called for a week ago. The commission argued such a declaration was critical to unlock emergency funding and expand treatment.
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30,942 People Reported Missing in Mexico: Report
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Families and human rights organizations say the real figure could be much higher.
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In Mexico, 30,942 people are reported missing. | Photo: Reuters
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Pet hamster junkies miss out on $billions............ :wah:
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Trump to declare opioid crisis a ‘national emergency
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a “national emergency” and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the epidemic.

“The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it’s a national emergency. We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,” Trump told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session ahead of a security briefing Thursday at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before a security briefing at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Candido Rios, 10th Journalist Assassinated in Mexico
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Rios was a correspondent for a regional newspaper in the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico.
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Tecoman was once a wonderful place. For more than 60 years my industry maintained off season winter operations there. The increased violence in the area prompted the decision to shut down the program and move it to Costa Rica.
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After Declaring Opioid Crisis A National Emergency, Trump Sends More Troops To Guard Afghan Poppies
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There is no way to uncouple the massive surge in Afghan’s opium production from the burgeoning crisis of opioid use in the United States. In banishing all thought of an Afghan “endgame,” has Trump just made our “national emergency” of opioid abuse a permanent one?
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Many addicts seeking opioid recovery find relapse and fraud
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Reflections treatment center looked like just the place for Michelle Holley’s youngest daughter to kick heroin. Instead, as with dozens of other Florida substance abuse treatment facilities, the owner was more interested in defrauding insurance companies by keeping addicts hooked, her family says.

“It looked fine. They were saying all the right things to me. I could not help my child so I trusted them to help my child,” Holley said.
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Michelle Holley holds a photograph of her daughter Jaime Holley, 19, who died of a heroin overdose in November 2016, at her home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Reflections treatment center looked like just the place for her youngest daughter to kick heroin. “It looked fine. They were saying all the right things to me. I could not help my child so I trusted them to help my child,” Holley said. Instead, the center refused to give 19-year-old Jaime Holley her prescription medicine when she left, forcing her to use illegal drugs to avoid acute withdrawal symptoms, her mother said. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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The Narco-State to the North
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The astronomical levels of drug violence and corruption in Mexico can be directly attributed to the policies of the United States.
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Another Journalist is Gunned Down in Central Mexico
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The press freedom group Article 19 says a reporter is now being targeted every 15 hours.
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