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An opioid crisis hits Britain
As studies already demonstrate, the origins of this crisis are much more deeply rooted in lack of community and capitalism than in any somatic illness or bodily demand, writes JULIAN VIGO

THE opioid crisis in the United States has taken over media reports this past year with CNN running several major stories that profile parents and couples overdosed in their automobiles with children in the back seat. 

These images strike straight to the heart as one feels immediate disgust and outrage about the harm potentially posed to children with a combination of empathy towards the parents who are themselves victims in a larger big pharma-fabricated addiction crisis. And often one is left wondering, “What is wrong in the United States?” 

The problem is that despite the British media reports of grandparents raising their orphaned grandchildren, the many stories relating this matter to Prince’s untimely death, and Louis Theroux’s investigation into the heroin crisis in Huntington, West Virginia, the sad fact is that Theroux could have stayed back home and made his film. 

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