Posted on 01/28/2018 7:37:25 AM PST by JP1201
Wall will not stop drugs from Mexico. Drones will be flying them in. Already happening here in San Diego.
When a big shipment is interdicted, poison it and let the traffickers off on a technicality, departing with their drugs. A few thousand dead junkies over the next few days would inspire quitting drug abuse on a massive scale! And we’d be rid of the first round.
And execute any convicted drug dealers, no plea-bargain deals for reduced sentences. That would encourage other employment for dealer wannabes.
Target practice? Anything coming over is fair game!
So long we do not produce and import drugs, we lose. We could export them in fact and make them lose. Tobacco farmers do not smoke because they have jobs and a future... Same with producing drugs and exporting them, is all.
Mom went in for knee surgery Tuesday. Among the nurses first words were oxycodone.
They probably didn’t bribe the right person.
I was old enough to resist this movement but there was a whole generation of docs trained with this philosophy.
Some people it can benefit. Hydrocodone actually fixed my symptoms more than once. Haven’t had it in many years.
What a horrible offensive thing to say.
I wonder if praising those 60’s punks as the most intelligent generation helped.
Sure, doctors prescribed narcotics. But what I have seen, the patients requesting narcotics were already addicts. Claiming back pain and trying to get a prescription. Telling them NO pain med prescription meant an abusive, sometimes violent patient in the clinic. It got to the point that our clinic stopped seeing Medicaid patients, as they were usually the drug seekers.
A 27 year old addict ( as this article points out) most likely did not get addicted from a doctors prescription. He already started a life of addiction when he was 14. So, I am not buying the pity party in this story. Unlikely a doctor prescribed narcs to a 14 year old boy, and got him in a cycle of addiction.
I remember the last heroin epidemic, in the early 80s. AIDS wiped out that group of addicts. Now, we have easily accessible clean needles and Narcan everywhere. This cycle of addiction will be harder to burn out.
Thanks for the link. This old article needs to be cited by Trump in his Tuesday address.
Per the article:
As much as 94 percent of the heroin entering America comes from Mexico, estimated William R. Brownfield, a man with a complex title (assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs) who sits at the fulcrum of drug interdiction and diplomatic initiative. During a conference call Thursday, he explained that, in 2017, a synthetic opioid between 10 and 50 times more potent than heroin, raw fentanyl, is being trafficked through Mexico into the U.S. alongside heroin and cocaine, though it’s largely produced in Asia.
Brownfield, who was appointed in 2011 during the Obama administration, said President Donald Trump’s planned border wall with Mexico would be integrated into what he called an existing “wall” of cross-border law enforcement cooperation.
Don't count on that.
That would be a logic-based response.
Addiction is not logic-based.
Stoner states could care less it’s all about the tax money they receive skimming is so much more fun when you have more to skim.
Then they'd keep using and we'd be rid if them. A win either way.
While AIDS wiped out a lot of gay men, mostly due to their own promiscuity, that isn’t How infection works. It doesn’t discriminate. Not only did plenty of faithful gay men get and die from AIDS, plenty of heterosexuals got it too. Still in Africa people are dying from it. People got it from blood transfusions and drug use. I lost people I cared about. I don’t think hoping AIDS kills more of a group of people you don’t like is funny. And I love funny.
Bribing Mad Dog with a sirloin? They’re sending A-10s, too. Good target practice?
The late, great Bob Grant once said that the problem with AIDS was that it killed too slowly, leaving the infected more time to spread it.
>> “I can make more money spending five minutes with a patient and prescribing a pill than I can spending an hour with the patient in psychotherapy.”
Perhaps the compensation model needs some adjusting. The incentive is to keep the patient coming back forever as a revenue stream. If the doctor received a minimal payment for treatment and a huge bonus for a cure, there would be a lot more cures. (Yes, there would be abuse there, too. Wherever there is a monetary incentive, there is someone who will jump in and abuse it.)
All around me I see people in therapy for depression and it seems that neither they nor their therapists are interested in a cure. The therapists like the income and the patients like having an enabler listen to them whine (because they’ve alienated all of their friends with constant whining). Yes, there are some people who I think genuinely need help for depression, but there are many who just enjoy being miserable, whining for attention, and winning at the game of “I’m more pathetic and sad than you are.”
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