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Just as the “war on drugs” criminalized and destroyed large swaths of African-American and Latino communities,
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Out of curiosity,
Does anyone know what the drugs were doing to African
American and Latino communities?
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Remembering loved ones lost to scourge of drugs
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/haverhill/remembering-loved-ones-lost-to-scourge-of-drugs/article_a735eac7-4c97-5940-ad5b-8b595eb64325.html
PLAISTOW, N.H. — Rays of sunlight beamed through the stained glass windows of the First Baptist Church upon almost 70 people who sat just as they would on any Sunday morning.
But while they sat in the pews readying for a sermon from Pastor Aaron Goodro, they also prepared to mourn the losses of the many young people in their small patch of New Hampshire to the scourge of heroin.
The Sunday service marked the first National Day of Remembrance, which brought together worshippers of all faiths all over America to support one another and to stand tall against the opioid epidemic eating the country alive.
"I started seeing it over 10 years ago and I didn't understand it then. But over the past few years, (the epidemic) has skyrocketed" said Goodro, the pastor at the Plaistow church for almost four years who has served churches in Southern New Hampshire since 1998. "It doesn't discriminate — blue collar, white collar, no collar."
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Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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