I’m so sorry. It can happen to anyone. I’m from a small rural town and I’ve seen all kinds of people struggle with this. It is not at all something that only happens to “bad” people.

By the time I was in high school, wearing ripped up old D.A.R.E. shirts was an ironic punk rock thing to do.

The funny thing was at my school, the kids with the best drugs were the ones who wore the DARE shirts.

“Just Say No” was pretty much the mantra of the D.A.R.E. campaign, but the big difference is it is profoundly different to “just say no” to a medical professional who is prescribing you medication for a condition you are experiencing or “just say no” to creepy Steve trying to hawk joints behind the gym after school.

Well, I don’t know how much Trump realizes it, but the people in his administration know it for sure. When Pence was governor of Indiana, there was a major HIV outbreak in Scott County due to opioid addiction and the prohibition of needle exchanges. And I believe most of the people affected were poor whites. He needed…

I don’t think he will recognize that the opioid crisis effects white people. To him drug addicts are people of color living in run down shacks and killing white people to pay for their habit.

There was an article in The Seattle Times a few weeks back about a small Washington town that had voted overwhelmingly for Dump, and they have a HUGE drug crisis. They felt ignored and forgotten and thought he’d “bring change.”

Dammit,you beat me to it. I guess I should have scrolled down before posting. And I’m too lazy to do an “edited for deletion”.

I usually love raccoons but this GIF is extremely disturbing.

Seriously. Even Liberace would have been “it’s too much; maybe tone it down a little?”

It just screams “new money.”

I shudder to think.

;-)

You leave the raccoons out of this!

Don’t you dare insult raccoons like that

They are really lacking in White House pets right now!

I’m an EMT, married to an EMT. I haven’t been on a truck for a few months because my bipolar is kicking my butt, but he has. ODs have tripled - TRIPLED - in the last year. We’re having trouble stocking enough narcan, which is a problem because we’ve also had a few accidental ODs from cops and providers coming into…

Imagine how much he’ll be spending on gold leafing!

Kindly don’t defame the cute little trash panda’s good name

Trump is spending $1.75 million to spruce up the White House. The total cost includes “$17,000 for custom rugs, $7,000 for ‘furniture pedestals’ and $5,000 for wallpaper.”