Posted on 01/07/2018 12:42:20 AM PST by Crucial
Usually selling drugs is all about money. Drug dealers don’t care who they hurt just as long as they have a strong cash flow. One would think the the heroin epidemic is a case in point.
Looking at the data I find that over the past 15 years the supply of heroin has almost doubled. Over the past 20 years the price of heroin has fallen more than 50%. I also notice that Hezbollah has become a major drug trafficker and that it uses its profits for weapons.
Now this is all bad enough but a thought occurred to me and that is what if flooding the market with cheap heroin isn’t about just money but deliberately crippling and killing the youth of America? What if the goal is to disrupt American society in a fundamental way to render America a much weaker enemy?
I, for one don’t believe in coincidences. The heroin epidemic may just be an act of terrorism on behalf of the Iranian government.
Nobody said that bad behavior driven by drug addiction is not to be judged or is to somehow be tolerated. I certainly didn’t say it. What I did say is standing in judgment of someone who is having a very difficult time beating heroin addiction by saying “just quit” is ignorance born of not having a clue.
I just respectfully believe that to be nonsense. Noone forces you to be addicted. Addiction is a choice that you make every day. I know a man that smoked 2 packs a day for 45 years. The Doctor told him he had cancer and maybe 6 months to live. He quit right away and never smoked to his dying day.How can that be?
Well, I’m finding your hard-headed insistence upon ignorance to be tiresome, so I’ll just end this exchange by saying that you’d better hope no one near and dear to you ever becomes addicted to heroin, because then you’ll see. That’s all, no more replies from me.
I enjoyed the discussion. Have a good Sunday.
“just quit” is no better or worse advice to give an addict than any other advice.
In the end they have to do it themselves. Relatively few manage it, unfortunately.
However, the dealers are not Muslims, but are illegal aliens from one specific area in Mexico.
I seriously doubt that many (if any) old grandpas are out there looking for heroin because they can't get pain meds to deal with their chronic pains.
Banning pain medications for "normal" people isn't going to do squat about the demand for getting high by gangbangers, teenagers, and assorted other types of addicts.
Amazingly, they take exactly half of your SSDI.
I wonder how they know exactly what half is.
I feel for you and that is a shame on our govt.
You gotta find out who the dealers are and remove them from the equation
Succinct.
I agree.
I was prescribed oxycodone for kidney stone pain. To be effective, it had to be taken as soon as the attack became apparent. Anticipating an attack that didn't happen, I was relieved of several previously-undetected pains that drifted away; so, I understand the nature of addiction. As a Conservative, I'm disciplined against such misuse. Libs and millennials are truly to be hardest-hit.
BINGO! You summed it up well. I’m a Pro Constitution Rebel what did you expect? I’ll be 70 in Aug and don’t give a fig for government control violating MY RIGHTS.
My mom called it Horse Manure. Even in the last stages of lung cancer there was not enough pain relief. Where as they OD’d my dad because he ‘took’ to long to pass, used to many Hospice resources.
And I don’t like the new but old to the market Beta Chanel Blocker...liver/kidney damage are prospects. But pain drives the BP up to Hyper Tension levels, that a person with a minor heart issue, becomes a major one. That only lines doctors pockets treating the new health issues untreated pain or INTRACTABLE PAIN DISEASE causes. Yep, it’s an actual disease. https://www.healthline.com/health/intractable-pain
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