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steve2470

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2. maybe our VT DU'ers can aid us ? nt

Reply to JaneyVee (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 12:49 AM

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A Call to Arms on a Vermont Heroin Epidemic [View all] steve2470 Mar 2014 OP

I don't know why I'm so skeptical of this story. I feel like it may be being JaneyVee Mar 2014 #1

maybe our VT DU'ers can aid us ? nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #2

cali has claimed it's bullshit, maybe she'll show up and comment. dionysus Mar 2014 #3

if it's BS, the Governor is overreacting pretty badly nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #4

i'm not the one to say. i know in my small home town in maine, drug use is up, a few pharmacies dionysus Mar 2014 #6

yes, I'm eager to hear what VT'ers have to say nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #7

in a smallish town it'd only take a dealer or two to make the joint look bad... dionysus Mar 2014 #8

No, I haven't said that. I said a specific article was bullshit cali Mar 2014 #16

I am a now removed Vermonter... Agschmid Mar 2014 #5

I worked on the NSDUH for quite a few years in Vermont... handmade34 Mar 2014 #9

thanks for the info, Handmade nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #10

Maybe people in more liberal states are more likely to admit it Marrah_G Mar 2014 #11

I'm guessing that this statement is based on a "per capita" basis, right? Ghost in the Machine Mar 2014 #14

this needs wide publicity. though some are shamed by it--admitting your state has a problem is Pretzel_Warrior Mar 2014 #12

just for you, pretzie. and all states have problems. btw, I think cali Mar 2014 #18

Where I live in Ohio JesterCS Mar 2014 #13

185 heroin deaths in MA, 45 in RI, 22 in PA - all in the past 4 months hack89 Mar 2014 #15

That's a function of drug prohibition and the black market. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2014 #17

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