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American opioid crisis Part 2

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 Today is part 2 of the American opioid crisis  These are some stories from people who have experienced first hand the effects this crisis is having on the kids over there. These kids that are taking these fentanyl laced drugs aren’t your high school drop outs or the rejects these are the friendly creative talented kids, the smart ones, the artistic ones, the musical ones, the ones who have futures of being doctors or scientists or high challenging jobs. One mother said her son switched overnight things he use to love to do he lost interest in. He basically became a recluse lived in his room addicted to his phone and social media. He started to get suspensions and then expelled, grades had slipped, then they discovered he was on drugs – something he had tried once at a friend’s party. On the 31st December 2019 his mother received a phone call – thinking it was her son when she answered but it wasn’t it was a cop telling her they had found her son unresponsive in a car along ...

DIY

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DIY Well it’s coming into August my parents are off to Budapest on Thursday and are away for 2 months, they are biking up the Danube River all the way to Switzerland. While they are away I am doing up my son’s room, I have filled in all the holes with wall paste, and just have to sand them down and redo any of the holes that aren’t quite filled up, I am also re-wallpapering and fixing the gap in the floor between the carpet and the door ( my son has a deck off his room) the carpet had worn through so the carpet nails have come thru, I do have a mat over it at present but since I am also laying down carpet tiles ( foam backed for extra padding) I am going to fix the gap first before I get the carpet tiles. He wants a travel room as he is wanting to become a flight attendant, I have peel and stick wallpaper in white wood design, I bought an electric drill and screwdriver, I am adding a rod to the top of the sliding door for rod curtains, these are scenery curtains ( they have a pictu...