The newest kind of drug dealer is
your Grand-ma. Older Americans are selling prescription painkillers to drug
dealers to raise needed cash at a time when the Republicans want to slash
Social Security to raise funds to pay for Trump’s out of control deficit. The
fact is that senior citizens also do not have funds to keep up with the cost of
inflation either. Many are poor and can’t afford to buy the things they need to
survive. This is the reality of what is happening in Trump’s America and it is
heartbreaking.
Drug dealers don’t have a short
supply of customers on the streets for painkillers, but they have a short
supply of the pills. So, a good business deal however illegal, is to find
Senior Citizens willing to trade their pills for cash. I guess it is a win, win
deal but is it? Well when a senior citizen finds out that they can get $20 per
pill, then they are very interested in the deal. Law enforcement officials across
the country confirm that this kind of deal making is a growing problem in
America. Court cases are starting to pile up with criminal senior citizens who
just need more cash.
Some senior citizens are not
willing accomplices to a crime but are victims with their caregivers or even
family members pilfering their prescribed medications they legitimately need
for their pain and the elderly suffer. That is the real crime! Many times the
family members take the elderly person’s pills to satisfy their own terrible
addictions that is occupying this country still. Trump took a very large
campaign contribution form major pharmaceutical companies so he could care less
about the harm and inaccuracy that is taking place with their highly addictive
drugs. More oversite and regulations should be required but it is not.
What helps fuel this troubling
trend is not just the poverty facing some older people but their ability to easily
gain prescriptions from their doctors. While there are no precise statistics to
gauge the size of the problem, law enforcement
officials from New York to Los Angeles say that older people selling
prescription medication is a real issue. The reason for the lack of data is
that Federal prosecutors focus their efforts on large-scale opioid pushers and
dealers. And local prosecutors say there
is a reluctance to prosecute people at or near retirement age for selling their
relatively small amount of pills. This is happening in the very poor state of Kentucky,
Republican Senate big shot Mitch McConnell’s state and even he could care less.
He is a millionaire who voted for the best salary, medical care and paid prescriptions
for himself.
Trump’s war on drugs is not going
anywhere. At his re-election rallies he concentrates on saying nasty things
about any Democrat that comes to his mind that now his angry mob is probably
responsible that every prominent Democrat including two Presidents are under
attack for no real reason. Yes this is Trump’s NOT so great again America.
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