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ELDERLY PUSHERS?

CNN:

..."When a person is on Social Security, drawing $500 a month, and they can sell their pain pills for $10 apiece, they'll take half of them for themselves and sell the other half to pay their electric bills or buy groceries," Floyd County jailer Roger Webb said.

Since April 2004, Operation UNITE, a Kentucky anti-drug task force created largely in response to rampant abuse of the powerful and sometimes lethal painkiller OxyContin, has charged more than 40 people 60 or older... [*]

You can call these people pushers or you call realize a society that impels its elderly to sell their own PRESCRIBED drugs TO BUY FOOD is what is criminal. I choose the latter.

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exactly. these poor folks are simply left with 2 options die a slower death from lack of medicine than suffer and die from starvation

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