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This is a good law enforcement effort, but it doesnt address the deeper issues. Almost all heroin users start first with prescription opioid pills often taken from those with legal prescriptions (poppy plants for legal opioid pills are grown by a Johnson and Johnson subsidiary in Tasmania btw)... thats the broader issue, and they werent always so widely available. I wrote a five-part investigative series for the Waukesha Freeman newspaper this summer that explains the history of the heroin epidemic here. You can read it at this link (you need to scroll down a ways until you see the stories labeled On Heroins Trail). The series explains how opioid pill use and heroin use became so prevalent in society (including the ties to UW) and traces most heroin trafficking to a single Mexican cartel. gmtoday/content/m_magazine/2014/May/m_052014_48.asp jsonline/news/crime/da-announces-nearly-50-arrests-in-massive-milwaukee-heroin-ring-b99389684z1-282471331.html
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:11:13 +0000

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