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Headphoneus Supremus
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I just read a report that there is a serious heroin epidemic in small towns in New England (which is an area in the United States). To me it is one of the strangest things and it probably even baffles many residents there too. I've been to small towns in New England and the people there are generally very nice and down to earth minded. It is strange to imagine it especially since I've seen the drug problem in big cities but to hear about it happening in far off distant small towns is wierd to my thinking.
Yeah, I know there's lots of explanations or theories but I don't want to make this post too long. Typically the stereotype of a heroin addict is a person living in a large city in a bad neighborhood with rats and stray cats and I've seen this stereotype since I used to live in a large city. But this is a relatively new problem in America in quiet small towns where the local lady working at the grocery store or the friendly mail man is now the new face of the heroin addict. It seems that so many people there have at least one family member who is facing this problem of serious addiction and numbers of people are dying from over doses.
Rural small towns fascinate me. You drive through them and it looks like everything is cozy and fine but there can be at times, some troubling issues.
Yeah, I know there's lots of explanations or theories but I don't want to make this post too long. Typically the stereotype of a heroin addict is a person living in a large city in a bad neighborhood with rats and stray cats and I've seen this stereotype since I used to live in a large city. But this is a relatively new problem in America in quiet small towns where the local lady working at the grocery store or the friendly mail man is now the new face of the heroin addict. It seems that so many people there have at least one family member who is facing this problem of serious addiction and numbers of people are dying from over doses.
Rural small towns fascinate me. You drive through them and it looks like everything is cozy and fine but there can be at times, some troubling issues.