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JohnnyRingo

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5. We had eight deaths in the first three days of April.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Apr 6, 2017, 04:00 AM

Apr 2017

28 overdoses that were brought back in those same days in the medium sized city of Warren Ohio.

The problem is that the heroin gets cut at each level of dealing. People are adding synthetics to avoid a weak dilution. Eventually, it's nearly all cut because no one knows how many times it was stepped on previously.

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Louisville officials brace for overdoses from people using elephant tranquilizer [View all] TexasTowelie Apr 2017 OP

Pittsburgh had a couple of those. So did Stubenville, Ohio. That crap should not even be touched appleannie1943 Apr 2017 #1

Some of the synthetic opiates out there are really bad news Warpy Apr 2017 #2

It's ''anything to get high'' mentality. They are incapable of getting high on life. YOHABLO Apr 2017 #3

Some junkies overdosed on this stuff outside my office in Canada Sen. Walter Sobchak Apr 2017 #4

We had eight deaths in the first three days of April. JohnnyRingo Apr 2017 #5