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[LovingA2andMI]

1. Yes, Let's Throw All The Workers Of Amtrak Under The Bus.....

For the Actions of a Few.....

[Initech]

2. All the War On Drugs does is create more drug users. It needs to go.

[RobinA]

3. We Should Probably

look at the circumstances of their use before getting hysterical. Maintenance of way workers have some pretty physical jobs. AND, ask if this crash had anything to do with drug use. Is this the one where the track wasn't properly blocked?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Yes. It was this one: "Amtrak train strikes backhoe, derails with 340-plus on board"

Amtrak train strikes backhoe, derails with 340-plus on board

Additional threads:

Amtrak Supervisor Was Trying to Save Colleague When Both Died

Federal Railroad Administration Calls for Immediate Amtrak Safety Reviews

Amtrak Safety Lapses Cited

Feds issue first report on Chester Amtrak crash

Amtrak engineer tested positive for marijuana and opioids in Chester, Pa. train crash

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Pot is detectable in your system for quite some time (weeks)

Was the engineer high at the time?

That's a different question.

[truthisfreedom]

5. The general term opioids does not differentiate between

Legitimate prescriptions for pain resulting from broken bones, etc, and illegal drugs obtained on the street.

[Coventina]

8. Yes, it's a way of demonizing the people who deal with chronic pain, and equate them

with those who mainline heroin.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. As with many workers in similar industries, those on the railroad are expected to work punishing

schedules without paid sick time. If you're off for an injury in construction, transportation, extraction or other industry that's hard on your body, the idea is to get back to work as quickly as possible. Opioids are great for working through the pain, but of courses then you never heal properly, and you become dependent, and then addicted. Twenty years ago, these guys were all alcoholics. Now they take pills. Any discussion about the opioid epidemic -- or any addiction issues in our nation -- needs to be paired with serious discussions about work, the role of work and what the idea of "productivity" should be.

tl;dr: Capitalism kills.

[snooper2]

9. I read that first sentence and I literally laughed out loud here

LOL-

I'ts bad, but I read it and instantly thought- To re-word.


A stoner killed two coke heads.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. NTSB to Meet on Pennsylvania Rail Accident

NTSB Press Release
National Transportation Safety Board Office of Public Affairs

NTSB to Meet on Pennsylvania Rail Accident

10/17/2017

​WASHINGTON (October 17, 2017) — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of an accident involving an Amtrak passenger train that struck a roadway maintenance machine (backhoe) near Chester, Pennsylvania, on April 3, 2016.

Information on the accident, including the accident docket, can be found at:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/2016_chester_pa.aspx

WHEN: Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at 9:30 a.m. ET

WHERE: NTSB Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, District of Columbia

WHO: NTSB Board members and investigative staff from the Office of Railroad, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Investigations.

LIVE WEBCAST: A link to the webcast will be available shortly before the start of the meeting at http://ntsb.capitolconnection.org/