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dionysus

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

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 01:06 AM

Mar 2014

got held up over the last few years, the bank got hit last week, but it's not NY Times, call the Natl Guard bad, but drug traffic is up.

sometimes smaller towns near the thruways in new England are stopovers for drug traffic going north or south from boston, in our case, north.

but when I go home, I don't see junkies passed out on the ground or anything...

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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