Posted on 01/20/2014 2:12:28 PM PST by BBell
Heroin abuse has been getting more attention lately.
Last week, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin spent his entire 34-minute State of the State address talking about the state's "full-blown heroin crisis," and law enforcement officials in small cities across New England have noted an increase in heroin use.
Demand for the drug might be coming from people who are hooked on prescription pills.
Health officials and drug experts have started noticing that heroin use has been exploding as states crack down on "pill mills," which get people addicted to Oxycontin and other pain killers even when they don't have a medical need for them.
David DiSalvo writes in Forbes that the increase in heroin use has overlapped with a decrease in pain killer abuse. He notes that the number of new non-medical users of pain killers dropped from 2.2 million in 2002 to 1.9 million in 2012:
The reason may come down to basic economics: Illegally obtained prescription pain killers have become more expensive and harder to get, while the price and difficulty in obtaining heroin have decreased. An 80 mg OxyContin pill runs between $60 to $100 on the street. Heroin costs about $9 a dose. Even among heavy heroin abusers, a day’s worth of the drug is cheaper than a couple hits of Oxy.
As states crack down on pill mills, fewer people will be able to obtain the drugs through a prescription and supply will be cut off. Pain pills become less available and more expensive.
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I am so sorry to hear about your family member that was beaten badly. America is doomed if this evil is not stopped. GOD bless you and I pray that your family member is healing well. Roger on the NSA.
Dope use increasing in New England. Hmmm. I know liberalism is a mental disease but I guess heroin use doesn’t help either.
Better to just toss them is your garbage bag. That won’t contaminate the water supply.
Cause there's azzholes in charge and it's too depressing to be sober/clean?
There’s been no war on drugs, yet. It’s only been a hysterical metaphor. There’s been no open season on dealers and foreign interests involved. History tells us that the time will come.
Last year about this time a kid who OD'd was dumped down the street in a neighbor's bushes. The kids (16-17 years old) were driving around doing hits of heroin. When one of them OD'd the rest of them panicked and dumped his body. They then went on and kept "partying" until one of them got a bit of conscience and reported the dead friend to the police a few days later.
Can you imagine living in a house with a dead body just outside in your bushes and not know it because the cold weather concealed any smell? Uggh....
How China got rid of opium
http://www.sacu.org/opium.html
Now, that was a war on drugs. Communism is not required, of course, but the tactics have been successful in several countries. In essence, everyone gets involved.
true story.
People are looking for ways to deal with a hellish world.
In the long term, those who have fallen into drug abuse and then beaten it, have a deeper grip on the meaning of life than those who never have. That is just a fact, but should that translate into a recommendation to abuse drugs... HEAVEN no. However we all have something we abuse due to the evil that attaches to our souls due to that mysterious slip that Christians call the fall of mankind. And beating that abuse will also give us a deeper grip on the meaning of life.
Interesting, but it seemed like anti-western, pro-communist China propaganda.
People differ in their tolerance to such things. Most people who use opiates for bona fide pain will voluntarily wean themselves off once the cause for the pain is gone. For them, the medicine is a mercy from God. However some people create their own pain then pursue it with the drugs. That is a prescription for disaster.
But that was one blissed out gopher....
A lady friend has an older horse with a bad shoulder. She gives hers to the horse when he gets to hurting bad. It seems to help.
the Taliban trades the raw opium to the Russian mafia , at points along the former Soviet states borders . The Russian mafia refines it into smack . The smack is smuggled into Europe and the US via the Russian mafia connections to US organized crime at the unionized U.S. ports . This resource provides the Taliban all the weapons and ordnance that they need to keep in the fight with U.S. and NATO forces . They have no other resource . The Russian mobsters see it as appropriate payback for CIA support of the Muj when they fought the Soviets , and in the process they are making fortunes in drug sales . Meanwhile our forces are under standing politically originating ROEs : DO NOT affect or impact the Afghan agro-drug economy .
The call of hell is evil. Drugs are but a means used by the evil. Guns, alcohol, bridges, and more are also means used by evil. A sign of taking less than full responsibility for the use of an item is wanting to ban the item for everybody.
There is a lot of truth in this article. A young relation of my wife’s died of a heroin overdose. He had originally got addicted to Oxy pills, but when he couldn’t get those switched to heroin. At least with the pills, the dose is assured. With heroin, they never quite know for sure how much it’s been cut.
I mean... I am sorry to hear what your stepbrother did. But it’s spirits of hell that he allowed to pull him into the abuse — that he allowed to put the spin on the use of the drugs that he accepted. Of his eternal fate I cannot speak because I do not have the background. But we are all standing here on earth between God and the devil.
If he’d want you to learn a lesson, it’s this: forget drugs, don’t let hell sucker you!
It’s a loss of the assurance and purpose of life that comes from God, which opens the door to such abuses.
In the older days, when it was still easy to get opiates at a pharmacy on request, to most people the usage of them outside of the context of physical pain would be viewed as a very unwanted visit from Satan.
Today such an experience is more like: “Cool! Satan!” Because the sense of God is so remote.
The reason is clear to anyone with half a brain. It is promoted in order to help opium farmers in Afghanistan.
I think Pakistan has taken the lead now that Obama has completely screwed up our relations with them.
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