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Ria Pathak

JD Vance's Memoir on Addiction Becomes Drug Smuggling Tool in Ohio Prison: 'Ironical!' Internet Reacts

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance walk along the West Colonnade, Friday, July 18, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

In a bizarre twist, US Vice President JD Vance's bestselling memoir about the dangers of addiction has been used to smuggle drugs into an Ohio prison, prompting a wave of stunned and amused reactions online.

What was meant to be a raw account of working-class struggle, family turmoil, and the grip of narcotics culture somehow became a delivery system for the very thing it warns against. And the irony, as the internet quickly noted, practically wrote itself.

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