Notes on the Opioid Crisis

Notes on the Opioid Crisis

Notes on the Opioid Crisis 

These few following pages contain some items I have written over the past year and a half.

Every month I attend one of our forums where we listen to speakers talk about various aspects of the opioid crisis, addiction and illicit drugs.

.Each time there is litany of woeful stories and statements that include but are not limited to : ‘I lost my son…’, ‘I lost my daughter…’, ‘I lost my brother…’, ‘I lost my sister…’, and mothers and fathers and friends and neighbors.

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t could make some people numb and I can see that it has. These unexpected deaths by healthy, happy people struck down so swiftly and without sound and seemingly without reason contains within it a horror that can only not be adequately expressed it is seems it cannot be perceived adequately even in the first person.

So I’ve collected these items together in this short book to give you a glimpse into what is going on. If you are experienced with this situation perhaps these items will make it clear how simple it is to write about it and talk about it.