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In reply to the discussion: Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI [View all]madokie
(51,076 posts)48. None of them came by way of me
so get off my ass is what I say. leave me the fuck alone. I speak for the thousands of us who take pain meds who don't abuse them nor add them to the problems on the streets.
Edit to Add: In fact only a few of the people I know even have a clue that I take a pain pill and that few who do is the ones who I've chose to tell for one reason or the other. Its not because I was all fucked up and they figured it out on their own so again get off my Ass.
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Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI [View all]
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
OP
Just finished a book called "American Pain" that talked about the pill mills in Florida
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#7
Well, that's true too, just....reading this book feels like another piece of
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#4
Most of the book isn't about the Medicaid fraud, only one chapter, the rest was
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#9
That's what we see in MT too. No jobs, no hope, drugs and booze fill the void.
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#20
Some of them vote against these benefits when the benefits go to non-whites. eom
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#13
I think many people think of Ohio as Cleveland and Cincinnati, not the rural southern part.
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#32
The chapter was on Portsmouth, Ohio. About the clinic Dr. David Procter set up and
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#37