The 'horrific' reason fentanyl deaths
are going down
Posted By: OhioNick, 10/1/2024 3:33:54 PM
Deaths from fentanyl appear to be going down for the first time in a decade after reaching astronomic levels - but experts warn it's for 'horrific' reasons. They say the drug is simply running out of people to kill, after claiming the lives of over 500,000 Americans in the last decade. Drug overdoses killed about 107,000 Americans in the past year, down from a peak of 77,693 last summer. [SNIP] But Dr Caleb Banta-Green, an addiction expert at the University of Washington, said it could be because so many users are already dead.
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Deaths from fentanyl appear to be going down for the first time in a decade after reaching astronomic levels - but experts warn it's for 'horrific' reasons.
They say the drug is simply running out of people to kill, after claiming the lives of over 500,000 Americans in the last decade.
Drug overdoses killed about 107,000 Americans in the past year, down from a peak of 77,693 last summer. [SNIP]
But Dr Caleb Banta-Green, an addiction expert at the University of Washington, said it could be because so many users are already dead.
Union members at the JBS Foods meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, said hundreds of Haitian immigrants were lured to work at the plant on false promises.
"[They were told,] 'You can come here. You are going to have a very good job. And you don't have to worry about where you're going to sleep because the company is going to take care of that for you,'" alleges plant worker Tchelly Moise. [SNIP] "We are talking about eight or 10 people inside of one motel room, a small room with just one bed inside of it and one bathroom," said Moise.
ABC has been accused of deliberately limiting coverage of the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a high-profile college football game.
The former president, 78, attended the highly-anticipated University of Alabama vs. University of Georgia college football game Saturday, despite major security measure concerns after two assassination attempts.
Social media users took to X to blast ABC - claiming the network deliberately avoided showing Trump and only put him on the screen for a mere six seconds.
It worked for Venezuela, it’s gonna work for California. [SNIP] Up next. State ownership of oil refineries.
The California Energy Commission, meantime, has offered a list of 12 options for policymakers to help manage the industry decline while keeping gasoline prices stable and supply levels high.
Beyond a minimum inventory mandate for gasoline storage, the possibilities include a limit on retail gasoline profit margins; a state lease or ownership of storage tanks and the gasoline that would fill them; a state lease or ownership of oceangoing tankers that hold emergency supplies of gasoline; and even a state takeover of one or more gasoline refineries.
Not only did the Biden-Harris administration decide to admit sanctioned Iranian dictators (responsible for the murder of Americans) and other enemies from around the world to attend the UN’s grand terror shindig in New York, but it conveniently served as a pretext for shutting down an outdoor Trump rally.
The Trump campaign had planned to host a rally in Wisconsin at an outdoor airport venue Saturday, but was told by the Secret Service that it did not have the manpower and assets to secure the venue while the United Nations General Assembly meeting was happening in New York.
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona, on Friday, and a local sheriff who will greet her at the airport revealed a message he will give her.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, who has served in his role as a border town lawman since 2012, told DailyMail.com that his home has been ravaged by President Joe Biden and VP Harris's border policies.
He described how the rural area has been swamped with deaths, tragedies and crime related to the border, and that the Biden-Harris agenda has caused irreparable damage.
Janet Jackson has claimed that Kamala Harris is not black - and that the Democrats' 2024 presidential nominee has a white father.
Jackson, 58, made the shocking assertion in an interview with The Guardian, when asked on her feelings about the United States having its first female black president.
'Well, you know what they supposedly said?' the singer answered. 'She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.'
'Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.'
Chicago has a $9.9 billion budget. Its teachers’ unions, who control the city and have one of their own in the mayor’s office, get everything from free abortions to weight loss surgeries, to $145,000 salaries even though their students know absolutely nothing. [SNIP] The teachers we spoke with work in CPS elementary schools and say they spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English, making communication virtually impossible. They also added that because their schools were located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, they offered no English as a Second Language (ESL) support.
Iran hacked the Trump campaign, stole vetting materials, and passed it along to the media and to the Biden-Harris campaign.
According to the FBI, this was to sow chaos, rather than the obvious motive of helping the Democrats win.
The Biden-Harris campaign did not respond to the Iranian emails by going to the FBI. It did not contact law enforcement at all.
The media coverage is using all sorts of weasel words to explain the actions of the Biden-Harris campaign people. There are claims that they did not open the emails. The Biden-Harrs campaign claims that its people were the real victims of Iran.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear banned the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky on Wednesday, calling his executive order a necessary step to protect children from a widely discredited practice that tries to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.
The governor used his executive powers. [SNIP] “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God," Beshear said during the signing ceremony at the Kentucky Capitol. "And where practices are endangering and even harming those children, we must act. The practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy’ hurts our children.”
Furious tech workers at the New York Times are threatening to strike on Election Day unless bosses meet their lengthy list of outlandish demands.
Requests from the union members include a four-day work week for increased pay, unlimited sick leave and paid time off for pet bereavements, Semafor reports.
Employees are also demanding trigger warnings around discussions of the news, banning scented products in break rooms and well as job security for foreign employees on visas in the event of layoffs.
Democrats have painted Kamala Harris' vice presidential pick Tim Walz as a squeaky clean military veteran, small-town teacher and well-loved football coach.
But as media scrutiny of the Democratic nominee ramps up, fact-checkers are increasingly poking holes in his public image.
Mr Walz, governor of Minnesota and a less practiced politician on the national stage, has been accused of distorting the truth about his military record, his son's birth, his time as a football coach, and a DUI arrest after doing 100mph in a 55mph zone.
Psychologists have suggested his string of mistruths represent a worrisome pattern of dishonesty.
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Despite his grandson saying he was 'limited' as he turned 100, Jimmy Carter spent his birthday in the sunshine enjoying a military flyover at his Georgia home. Carter - the first American president to reach the century mark - was able to watch a flyover of four F-18 jets and several vintage planes that graced the skies over Plains, Georgia as part of the town's celebrations, per CBS News.
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Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz stunned watchers of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate as he nervously fidgeted, frowned and even called himself a “knucklehead” — while his Republican counterpart, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, gave a steady and lawyerly presentation and was widely seen as the victor.
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I don't know what the viewership numbers were on the vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, but if they're not high they should have been because that was one of the best debates I've ever watched in my time as a political junkie (which goes back a looong time).
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Some things are true — for collectivist communists and individualist capitalists, for all people, regardless of who they are.
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