Rooster in Review: Finally, some good news
Opioid overdose deaths hit an eight-year low in the Buckeye State as some experts credit the cartels for banning fentanyl from their product.
Welcome to the Rooster in Review, a weekly recap provided for free to all subscribers—even the freeloaders huffing fumes in the parking lot.
If you’ve been on the fence about subscribing to the Patriots Caucus for full service on all of Ohio’s political depravity, there’s never been a better time to join. (Read: I’ll be buying a new bike next week to replace the one that some scumbag nicked off a porch in the Hilltop.)
In all seriousness, it’s a good time to join before this fall’s General Election, which is starting to look like it will involve Ohio’s hillbilly cosplaying Senator as a Vice Presidential candidate. Fun times!
Today, however, we start with some good news.
From Elizabeth B. Kim of cincinnati.com:
Overdose deaths in Ohio fell to an eight-year low in January, raising hope after years of a brutal opioid epidemic but also uncertainty over what’s behind the improvement.
Some credit statewide drug treatment and outreach efforts, particularly those connected to the dangerous drug fentanyl. Some point to a decline in fentanyl contamination of other drugs. And some say a drug cartel may be making good on a promise to cut fentanyl production.
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Though Harm Reduction Ohio focuses on public education and outreach to people who use drugs, especially those at high risk for exposure to fentanyl, the group’s president, Dennis Cauchon, suspects the recent drop in overdose deaths has more to do with the supply of drugs.
Cauchon noted that the downturn in deaths coincided with the Sinaloa Cartel’s claim that it was banning fentanyl early last year.
I’m no capitalist guru, but it seems that killing your customer base is counterintuitive to most business models. You need people to buy the drugs to make money.
Regardless of the reason, it’s good to see that Ohio might finally be moving past the overdose epidemic that claimed more of my high school classmates than I’d like to think about.
This week in Ohio Man…
Mikey—or Matty, according to some reports?—Pancake got the headlines this week.
I covered the saga in Wednesday’s dispatch.
It’s hard to beat a story about a man in a leopard print leotard breaking into a bunch of stores and cops discovering the bandit with multiple hamsters in his possession.
But prosecutors in Marion County got a horrible man off the streets, too.
From fox8.com:
MARION, Ohio (WCMH) – A Marion County man will spend at least the next 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and torturing a woman last year.
A judge sentenced Shane Edward Hooper, 36, to between 50 and 55 1/2 years in prison, Marion County Prosecutor Ray Grogan said Thursday. Hooper pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges.Grogan described Hooper as setting up a “torture chamber” between May and early June of 2023. Hooper held a woman at her home, nailing the doors and windows closed to stop her from escaping.
Gotta say: Shane Hooper looks about right for a 36-year-old living in Marion County. It’s harrowing realizing I probably went to school with that joker at some point, though I’m glad to say I never knew him. Don’t think I’ll be looking him up while he’s incarcerated, either.
This week in The Rooster…
Another brisk week of business at Rooster Worldwide LLC after last week’s truncated holiday workflow:
Back in the saddle and ready to ride. Juan Cespedes gets his passport back, LifeWise Academy sues a heroic parent, Law & Order strikes a Delaware County hobgoblin, and more.
With friends like these. Sherrod Brown’s baffling silence on Joe Biden, Evangelicals learn how expendable their views are, Ohio corruption lore, and more.
Here comes the hillbilly cosplayer. Donald Trump looks poised to select Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as Vice President, LifeWise Academy doesn’t appear to have much of a vetting process, and a patriot says former Senator Larry Obhof is joining Frank LaRose at the Secretary of State’s office.
THOSE WMDs. Home items you should (and shouldn’t) buy during July sales… A concussion ended his brother’s football career, so this teen invented a mask… The worst shark attack in history… Seven things you might not know about Calvin & Hobbes… Four shower products you’re using that are ruining your pipes.
Mae West: Are you happy to see me or are those hamsters in your pants.
Thanks for sharing your 2 previous newsletters. Has been a hectic time. Maybe have a link in each newsletter with your archives.