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Addiction & Recovery

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1. The opium/opiate rackets make too many people too much money.

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 11:15 PM

Nov 2017

Small wonder the War in Afghanistan has become by far America's longest war - and with no end in sight.

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Trump Is Continuing the War on Drugs That Kept Me Addicted [View all] Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 OP

The opium/opiate rackets make too many people too much money. sandensea Nov 2017 #1

Excellent point... Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #2

What a tragedy. Worse than anything in the Cocaine Cowboy era, by far. sandensea Nov 2017 #3

I watched the 60 Minutes story on this, it truly is an epidemic Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #4

It's painful to even read that. sandensea Nov 2017 #5