Posted on 06/07/2017 9:24:11 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Overdoses obviously caused by Trump stealing the election.
Criminalizing them didn't stop these people - but it did put profits in the hands of criiminals.
yup
thank you big pharma
I definitely see this in my area, seems like half the obits. I've only recently suspected OD, given no mention of any disease, no donations to a disease specific charity, and they seem to really stretch to paint a positive picture of the person-- "he always loved horses and his truck". Dude is 52 and that is all you can say about him? No academic accomplishments, no employment, no military service, no volunteer work, no accomplishments in an entire lifetime? No family (some do, but all divorced)? It would be nice if there was a public database online by coroner's office to check cause of death-- I suspect very few of these are normal, healthy people who lived wholesome lives.
Fail.
Stupidity should never go unrewarded.
That said, drug use is just sad. I grieve that so many people feel the need to use drugs. Drugs are Russian roullette, even if you never OD. They will destroy you in so many ways.
How did we get to this point?
When someone not the parent of a minor kills themselves with fentanyl, who have they made a victim?
And when some innocent individual inadvertantly comes in contact with a few grams of this and is DOA, can these idiot libertarians here at FR continue to bleat "Victimless Crime" again and again?
I get they couild not give a damn if some poor kid tries it and is killed. But how can they sit here and call for legalization of a drug that can kill you by some incidental second and third hand contact?
Liberals here at FR piss me off.
I’m ALL in for personal responsibility but Roxy and Oxy were ORIGINALLY only going to be allowed for cancer patients and such.
Until enough money got spread around.
It’s pretty much synthesized heroin.
What a shock it destroyed the country.
And doctors that sold scripts are disgusting and as evil as big pharma.
I’m an ER nurse. Trust me, it’s more common than you think. we see it daily and we just see the ones that aren’t already DRT when they’re found.
DO is a procedure for culling out the surplus population
Fail.
Fail indeed. I had some liberal here at FR yesterday arguing that if killer street drugs (like fentanyl) were decriminalized, then they would not kill anyone anymore.
Really! (smh)
Our involvement in Afghanistan is the driver for this, I believe, but not in a conspiracy theory sense of sinister profit motives. Under Pres Bush, we went in and shut down production and destroyed the opium crop for one year which had a profound impact on the global heroin pipeline. The result was that the entire population turned against the US, to include even the "puppet" government /tribal leaders we were propping up.
The only solution (I don't agree with this, but this is the decision that was made) was to treat opium production as an incentive for counter terrorism assistance. We didn't do this for money afaik, or take a cut of the drug trade, we did it to protect our soldiers and to prevent complete chaos and anarchy that would have fueled a jihadic wildfire that could lead to WWIII (Pakistan /India for example). Short sighted decision, continued by Obama, and now we are where we are.
Keep in mind that people under 50 usually don’t die. Most of us wait until later. This is really competing with things like car accidents and the occasional early death from cancer, etc.
i.e. it is a bad thing, but not as common as the headline might lead one to believe.
Heroin is filling a hole in communities where there used to be community, and jobs.
But the country has been attacked spiritually, socially and economically. The Christian faith has undermined, the family has been under attack, and jobs are sent overseas or given to H1B visa holders. Some changes have been brought just by new technologies, like cable and the internet making people less social-minded, but many others are the result of deliberately trying to destroy Christianity and Christians.
Also Mexican black tar heroin has enormously high OD death rates, pushed by illegal aliens who target even children. For whatever reason, they are not allowed to sell it to non-whites.
My wife, for several years, has been a big sister to a 12 year old that has a mother that has been a “druggie” for her entire adult life. I met her once a couple of years ago. She looked a lot like one of those “after” pictures of meth addicts.
Except she died of a drug overdose just over a year ago.
It’s sad (very sad), but when you get to know the grandmother and the rest of the family, it is not really surprising.
Heroin is filling a hole in communities where there used to be community, and jobs.
There are a lot of dry counties here. Interestingly, the head of the state troopers said that if alcohol was legalized statewide that meth use would drop by 25%.
The people of America decided it was worth chasing money instead of encouraging at least one of a child's parents to remain home and supervise that child.
There were always people pointing out what the inevitable result would be (America is hardly the first to travel this road) and the destination was sure. Even the church began to falter in calling for responsible parenting, so here we are.
Sorry if your question was rhetorical; I assumed you wanted the truth.
In many, if not most cases, these aren't kids experimenting. We're talking about adults with legitimate medical needs who were prescribed powerful, addictive opiates like fentanyl and then had their prescriptions abruptly cut off. These are the people who are driving the rapid raise in opiate overdoses; people looking for pain relief.
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