Posted on 07/15/2017 9:17:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
I’m a Heroin Addict
By Richard Farrell
Like a doctor performing microscopic surgery, I pour the contents of the rainbow bags into my cooker, reach for my bottle of water, insert the syringe, and draw up about 20cc. I squirt the water into the cooker, watch it move across the white powder and turn to liquid. I move my lighter back and forth under the cooker until the heroin bubbles. The smell is sweet. It makes my stomach turn. I bite off a small piece of a cigarette filter, and spit it into the burning liquid. It’s time.
I insert the needle, there’s a little sting, pull back on the plunger, and a dash of red-blue blood snakes up the middle of the clear liquid. A direct hit. Total euphoria!
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Heroin & fentanyl addiction is out of control and the quality & strength is greater than ever. Thanks to virtual open borders and the explosion in the prescribing of hard core pain pills causing alot of everyday people getting ‘hooked’on opiates, we are on the verge of a disaster. Lots of these people are former military, middle class educated workers and even housewives. They go in for pain management or surgery and are given loads of Vicodin or Percocet and become hooked.
I know several people myself who have become addicted to pain pills. Some ‘graduated’ to heroin. More than a few of them are dead. They all left behind young children and devestated families. These are not poor people trapped in the ghetto. These are people who had jobs, made good money, many six figure incomes, and most lived in high end suburbs.
This is a real crisis and the relief STARTS with a closed border. Followed by reduced prescriptions of these opiates.
Our government admits we are in a war on drugs.
The Mexican government purports to support this war on drugs.
If they object to shooting heroin dealers, then they are lying.
Presumably we would like to win this war.
If our government lacks the stomach to win this 50 year old war, then presumably they plan to ‘stretch it out’ for whatever reasons, like our 25 year war against terror in the Middle east.
Shoot Mexican narco-terrorists on sight. That’s how you win was: by killing the enemy.
Absolutely agree.
It's all about the money, baby. Stories like this sell. Everybody loves dirty laundry.
Great. So.... not only is this heroin addict a HUFFPO reporter, but he's a vampire too!
Well stated:
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“There is a Beast in our cities and towns. And that Beast has one mission; to kill your son, to murder your daughter, or to totally destroy somebody you love.”
One of my high school classmate’s daughter (30 yr old) died from a heroin overdose last week.
This happened in S Colorado. Not that far from MX.
Is it me or the details given in the article subliminally makes it a cool story... a bit of an appeal for a bored bimbo who wants some addiction drama from a dude in her life?
First laff and warm fellow-regards of the morning.
When I see a man using his weed-whacker as an instrument of measurement, I know I am in good company.
lol
suspect he thinks the 20 UNIT marking on a standard insulin syringe means CC
Yes, the Cartels are getting it from Afghanistan. Right there is a connection/alliance we need to be keenly aware of. Furthermore, under Bush, DEA deployed with our troops in Afghanistan. When Obama scaled everything back, he opened the floodgates and facilitated the opioid epidemic.
This is the untold story in this HuffPo article.
Todays scene is driven almost completely by the drug culture, teenagers (who begin with marijuana) and young adults who have no physical injuries.
I'd guess 80% of the ODs in WV now occur in this group. Sure there is always the story of the injured miner, hooked on Percocet now using heroin but the EMTs are seeing younger addicts on their repeat runs.
Because of the money to be made at all levels, the drug culture is booming in America and ODs will soon triple after more than doubling this year. Narcan is the latest miracle to keep the culture on its exponential growth. Addicts do not fear death. They want the cheapest high. If someone ODs because of a particular cut, the dealer sees an increase in demand because the other addicts want that super high.
When a client goes into treatment, their insurance or source of funds is spreadsheeted to maximize payments for inpatient detox, then outpatient sober home living and counseling, to max out profit to the recovery industry. Then a relapse is planned to repeat that process. One addict can be milked for alot of money for several cycles of recovery particularly since the government pays though Obamacare. The cool thing about Narcan is you no longer have involuntary dropouts.
Marijuana edibles for preteens is all the rage now to begin the process to addiction even sooner.
Both obesity and drug addiction are the driving force in over half the American population. This will skyrocket as legalization and treatment expands.
The school system has been paid to teach the metric system of measure to our students for decades and they have no clue.
Can we get a refund from the union?
< /SARC>
But HuffPo thinks simply warning about heroin is the solution, not stopping the river.
Maybe we cannot save them all but we have a damn good chance of saving a whole bunch of America’s finest before the Beast buries them in a cold dark coffin.
From article:
Maybe we cannot save them all but we have a damn good chance of saving a whole bunch of America’s finest before the Beast buries them in a cold dark coffin.
So HuffPo is not prolife. Or since HuffPo is proabortion, murder them in the womb before they are born.
And the Republican solution is: Add billions in ObamaCare spending for opioid “treatment”.
To my understanding most US heroin comes from fields in Mexico and central America. One of the reasons they are lacing it with fentanyl/carfentanil is to reduce exposure. They can get by with smaller poppy fields and less people harvesting poppies when they can stretch it out with something from a lab. Also non-laced heroin then won’t cut it for users won’t cut it so they have to go back to that dealer who has the laced supply.
FReegards
I’m supposed to care now that it’s moved from the inner cities out to the suburbs? I’d say the same prison or death approach still applies.
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