Posted on 12/09/2016 12:59:05 PM PST by detective
Because your doctor isn’t going to prescribe it past a certain point and buying the pharmaceutical stuff on the streets is more expensive.
“How could heroin be cheaper? I have a $10 copay for prescription medication.”
Addiction is progressive, and most doctors will not simply keep prescribing you increasing amounts of opiates, since that is a very quick way to lose your medical license. So people soon have to buy their prescription drugs through the black market.
We need heroin control!
Close the street sales loop hole!
Heroin is relatively cheap compared to the recent past, but it's still far more expensive than prescription drugs. They switch because the DEA has made it very difficult for doctors to prescribe painkillers for any length of time.
Heroin addicts are not taking it because they need a pain killer. They take it for recreation.
They take it because they are addicted. Many become addicted from recreational use, but many others become addicted from using prescription pain killers for chronic pain. When they can no longer get any or enough from their doctor they look elsewhere. Going to multiple doctors used to be one way (ask Rush Limbaugh) which is one of the reasons the DEA made it harder for MDs to prescribe them, whether for legitimate needs or not. But my point is even “cheap” heroin is more expensive that prescription pain killers.
I have personally only known seven heroin addicts in my life. All young people. Three dead now. All of them got into heroin for “fun” and not to ease chronic pain.
Regardless, it is a tragic path.
I’ve known some, also dead now. Some one, some the other. One of my best friends fell two stories and nearly broke his back, had tremendous back pain. He got addicted to percodan and dilaud and ended up on herion. It does happen.
PS. Either way, once they are addicted they are no longer taking for “fun”, they are taking to keep from being sick. Yes it is tragic.
Wow. Sorry about your friend. I hope that he finds alternate routes to deal with the pain. Our kidneys will only forgive so much drug use.
“Heroin is relatively cheap compared to the recent past, but it’s still far more expensive than prescription drugs.”
That isn’t what I have heard. I thought pills were more expensive on the street. You know exactly what you are getting, at least to the folks who are familiar with the pills and dosage. While heroin is a crap shoot, it could be super weak or really strong. I could be wrong.
Freegards
I meant pills from a pharmacy are cheaper vs. street heroin. Maybe five dollars a day vs. fifty.
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