The rehab facility is not supplying an entire neighborhood. The area the clinic is in is the divding line between a very wealthy and an economicly depressed area of the South End of Boston. While there were junkies here before, certainly, it's absolutely a facility that treats a good deal of people from the greater boston region.

As for the examples you're using, that's almost entirely because of the additions generally starting from over-the-counter drugs. But that sort of proves my point - no one area is going to have a dramatic uptick in use for no reason. There would need to be a significant environmental factor for there to be an imbalance like we're seeing here.

I answered the question...where is the hate?

Don’t even try to front like you weren’t blaming the place for bringing in people that make you uncomfortable.

Just own your shallow bourgeois hate deflecto

I don't know what you mean by this.

Opiates are not available in over the counter drugs. They are available in prescription drugs. These addictions are largely fueled by pill mills where shady doctors sell scripts to drug dealers. When the pill head can't afford oxy anymore they turn to heroin.

In West Virginia, for example, there are basically no pill mills. There are strict laws around prescription drugs in the state to combat the epidemic of pill use. The biggest state for pill mills is Florida where the laws are more lax. At least this was the case when I lived there. We literally had dealers from WV driving down to Florida to get their supply because the demand for pills up there is so great and the supply is so limited.

This is my point. If you are saying it wouldn't be concentrated in one area, I gave you multiple examples where it is, and for varying reasons.

I've lived in this neighborhood for 7 years, you clown. If it made me feel uncomfortable I would have left.

Yeah, that's me trying to do too much at once. They aren't over the counter. I meant they're available at pharmacies which I'm mentioning here because they're essentially operating on corporate supply chains - probably one of the most hyper-analyzed parts of corporate life. They'd distributed very efficiently.

As for what I mean by "it wouldn't be concentrated in one area" I mean OH's argument seemed to suggest the decision was made to put a clinic in an area where there are more junkies. That doesn't add up.

More people? Sure. But the idea that one area has more junkies than another - inherently - doesn't add up.

Man it used to be like no one has to stay in pain. They’d ask you on a scale of one to ten...
Yak yak you say seven or above you’re at least getting Vicodin. Now it’s like you come in with spinal damage and they tell you to do yoga.

That only follows if you think junkies don't typically concentrate in a certain area, which is why I listed a few (out of countless examples) where they do.

No offense but this seems like some amount of ignorance on your part. There is absolutely no doubt that certain areas have higher concentration of drug abuse than others.

Can you count to potato?

Why would they put up a methadone clinic where there ain’t no junkies?

That's what you implied though.

yeah it's been 10 or so years but back then it was the hub for dealers throughout the east coast. I figured they might've cracked down since then.