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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You must not be a lawyer.

I am a big law partner (of color). Big law attorneys and their children are dropping like flies. I can think of six overdoses and three deaths in the past two years, and I am not even trying hard. All whites.

I don’t feel sorry for any of them. UMC whites have zero compassion for others. If this epidemic was killing blacks at sky high rates, the UMC whites who decide what is newsworthy and control news networks wouldn’t give the issue any air time.

I believe the opioid epidemic is a side effect of the winner takes all, zero sum, every man for himself culture that prevails in America today. Guess who are the architects of that culture. Karma.[/quote]

[b]Agree with you 100% on paragraphs 3-4. When it was the crack epidemic, society viewed it as a character flaw among the AA victims. Now that it’s affecting whites, it’s a disease and getting political and media attention. [/b][/quote]

I think a huge difference between the crack epidemic and opioids epidemic is that most of the people who are becoming addicted to opioids are being introduced to them through a physical injury. They have an injury, are prescribed opioids, become addicted and it's downhill from there. In the 80's people started doing crack simply from partying. They choose to do it simply so they could get high. [/quote]

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