Hillbilly Heroin

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 09:33 AM 12/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
>    "Hillbilly Heroin" should get some WOTY consideration, especially if
> you add a category of new drug terms.  I didn't spy it on the Wordspy.

I hope to hell it won't, since it stigmatizes, once again, the Appalachian
region.  Oxycontin is indeed a scourge in this area, but West Virginia
deserves better.

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