‘The Face Of Heroin Has Changed,’ Family Warns After Losing Son, 19

CBSLA.com) ^ | November 8, 2013 12:13 AM

[eyeamok]

They move from pill form to the “traditional” as their needs increase. This is all well documented.

My daughters friends, and my friends sons friends, all in their 20’s, NONE of them ever tried any of the synthetic versions. Heroin is very plentiful in Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley, as well as anywhere in So-Cal. Pills are much harder to obtain.

Until the vast majority of People realize that OUR GOVERNMENT is Heavily involved in the Importation of Controlled Substances...

“Yeah, and I am the crack smoker...”

Ask yourself why there is so much opposition from GOVERNMENT to close the southern border?? currently more than 85% of All Controlled Substances are smuggled across the Mexican Border, If they really wanted to Win the War on Some Drugs, do you think closing the Border would be at the top of the list?? Why do we Have Special Smuggling Zones in Texas and Arizona where Enforcement is FORBIDDEN??

You should actually do a little more reading instead of parroting the Government Propaganda, Unless of course you are a government agent, then that is all you know.

[eyeamok]

“Where do you stand in the “war on drugs””

I am absolutely against for a multitude of reasons
1. It has turned the US into a Police State
2. We have lost more liberty and freedoms precisely because of the Drug War.
3.The Drug War is an abysmal failure, there is still 10-15% of the population that still gets high on something. right where it was when the War on Drugs Started
4. Prohibition of ANYTHING has Never worked in all of recorded history.
5.All “Illegal Drugs” combined kill about 25k people annually, Pharmacists KILL 150K per year by dispensing the WRONG PRESCRIPTION, Alcohol kills 600-800k every year, Tobacco another 500k, Doctors Kill about 200k patient per year on ACCIDENT.

All the War on Drugs has accomplished is Making a lot of criminals and greatly expanded government and the Police State. Do you feel safer now than say in the 60’s and early 70’s before the drug war started ramping up?? Take a good look around and tell me how much of a success it has been.

[gitmo]

“The face of heroin has changed,” Rick Isaac told CBS2′s Serene Branson when recalling his late son, Josh.

What does that mean? I saw young people turn into 100 year old invalids in a matter of months back in the early 70's. What is different now?

[a fool in paradise]

How many people do you personally know who died from alcohol? From tobacco? From cocaine? From heroin? From meth? From acid? From bath salts or whatever?

I don’t know any who ODed on alcohol. Many more in the other categories.

[AppyPappy]

You dodged a major bullet. I’m seeing some horrific addictions to prescription stuff.