Heroin overdose explosion among Cali millennials

Small town America is besieged by heroin and drug use.. My own neck of the woods has been struck as well..

The plague is not sporadic but sadly contagious throughout the United States..

The LA DAILY NEWS is reporting about how heroin is exploding in use among California millennials..

From the article:

California’s millennials continue to flood hospital emergency departments because of heroin, a trend that has increased steadily statewide and in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the past five years, according to the latest figures.
The state data released last week show that in the first three months of 2016, 412 adults age 20 to 29 went to emergency departments due to heroin. That’s double the number for the same time period in 2012.
Overall, emergency department visits among heroin users of all ages increased, but the sharpest was among the state’s young adults. About 1,500 emergency department visits by California’s millennials poisoned by heroin were logged in 2015 compared with fewer than 1,000 in 2012.
Emergency responders, those who work in recovery programs, and parents of children addicted to heroin say the figures are unsurprising given the increase in prescription painkiller abuse that likely has led more young people to use heroin.
“One of the unintended consequences of this prescription drug epidemic has been the increase in heroin addiction and overdoses, in part due to the transition from prescription opioids to less expensive heroin street drugs,” according to state health officials. “Heroin deaths have continued to increase steadily by 67 percent since 2006 and account for a growing share of the total opioid-related deaths.”

The same problem that has hit big cities and small town America is not striking the CALI crowd.. the same stories as a bag of heroin only being $5 a bag on the street... deaths.. horrid deaths ... so many people visiting the emergency room for treatment.

More from the article:

Still, some parents and those who work in drug treatment programs continue to see heroin as a major drug issue that isn’t going away.
Jody Waxman saw it firsthand. Her son was 23 when she realized he was addicted to heroin.
“He went to the emergency department a number of times,” said the San Fernando Valley woman. “He once almost died on my living room floor. He had gotten a hold of heroin laced with other drugs. It was very bad. “

I have tried coining a term for this based off of an old film called THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN...
Right now, because of the plague of drug abuse and heroin addiction nationwide, we are filled with small towns that dread sundown.
It's not getting better. Anywhere.

The Bowling Green Mandela Effect!?

Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's advisor, got herself in a bit of a jam..

ABC news reported it this way yesterday:

Despite comments made by White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway, there never was a massacre at the hands of Iraqi refugees in the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
In fact there never has been a terror attack of any kind in the city of 60,000, and local officials are now rushing to assure everyone their town is safe – and always has been.
“I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre,” Conway said on MSNBC on Thursday night. “I mean most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”
It didn’t get covered because it didn’t happen. There was no massacre.
It is true – as ABC News first reported in 2013 – that in 2009 two al-Qaeda terrorists from Iraq were found to be living as refugees in Bowling Green. In court, they later admitted that they had attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The arrest of the two men, who are now in prison, led to a six month drastic curtailment and overhaul of the Iraqi refugee program in 2011.
The entire saga played out in the small Kentucky town without bloodshed, much less a massacre.

And with that, a scandal developed.. a laugh line emerged. And another political football was thrown.

But I try to delve deeper than the static noise..
I saw an interesting theory online tonight regarding this event.. something worth passing on for your thoughtful intercession.

This is not a defense of Conway, nor any attempt at making sense of the Trump Administration thus far.. but it's being offered up because of my life of the Mandela Effect, the paranormal, and politics..

What if--WHAT IF!--Conway experienced a Mandela Effect? A time slip!? A moment where the past seems to be different from what you thought it was..?
A very public Mandela Effect, perhaps?

This is where politics may rear its head.. and quite possibly where you stand on Trump will have some play in what you think next.

But follow this.. just think..
From a REDDIT thread:

I know the press is (unfairly?) hammering Kellyanne Conway about this and everyone just assumes she made it up, but does anyone else remember an actual Bowling Green Massacre?
And I'm not talking about the arms smuggling scheme or whatever that all of the articles I've read seem to think she might have been talking about. I mean an actual, honest-to-goodness terrorist attack.
I definitely recall a bombing in Bowling Green that killed ... maybe a dozen people? I think it happened either at the end of the Bush administration or the first month of the Obama administration. I'm pretty sure it involved a suicide bomb being set off on a city bus. The way I remember it was a young muslim guy--he could have been in his late teens, possibly early twenties? (I'm ashamed to admit this, but I remember seeing his pictures on the news and thinking he was kind of cute.) He hid an IED inside a dufflebag or knapsack or something and I think he detonated it using an ipod or some kind of portable music player.
Later, they arrested a second, older muslim guy. I think he was responsible for building the bomb. They were definitely both Iraqi refugees, like Conway said.
So am I nuts, or did this happen? Everyone at work thinks I've lost it.

Yes this is a big stretch, and yes most likely many skeptical people will continue to be critical of the original post on REDDIT.

But ... for a late night with stars in the sky, such thought seems appropriate. After midnight, no holds are barred.. even political Mandela Effects that are felt far and wide..