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spinbaby

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Mon Aug 24, 2015, 06:57 PM Aug 2015

The heroin epidemic’s toll: One county, 70 minutes, eight overdoses [View all]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-heroin-epidemics-toll-one-county-70-minutes-eight-overdoses/2015/08/23/f616215e-48bc-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html

Washington County, PA is home to me and, yes, we have a major drug problem here. The quote from the article that really hit me:

“If we had a serial killer killing one-tenth as many [people], we’d have the National Guard here,” Capretto said. “We’d have CNN here every night.”
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