Zombies to the right...
Zombies eat brains.
Just over half this country is safe.
Wow. I had no idea the fricking pills went that that high on the black market....around here my cop buddies say, they dopers substitute black tar heroin which tickles the same fancy for 1/10th the price. The Obama class of white trash trogs score the pills, then sell to yuppie addicts and use the cash to buy the heroin or juts trade outright for the stuff to pushers who work both ends.
I have to believe, given how addictive they are (hooked Rush Limbaugh) that the pharmaceutical companies (like big tobacco) are consciously involved in the “crisis” to build sales.
With the extended unemployment benes running out for many, that might be driving the increase in crime as they have to steal more now to fill their habits instead of cashing G checks.
I’d need to be pretty danged banged up to let the doctor prescribe that stuff to me again. I was using it after a surgery last year, when I had 7 weeks in a wheel chair. The high is fine, and combined with Ibuprofen it will kill a significant amount of pain, but the constipation can literally kill you after a few days on it. And there’s definitely a strong “down” when you stop taking it. A bad combo, which explains the addictiveness.
So, will some expert tell us all just what Oxy’s real name is? Isn’t Vicodin the same chemical?
Even Rush got caught up in the Oxy monster. It doesn’t just happen to bored nitwits in the ‘Hood.
“The Police were just at my door. They wanted to know if my security cameras were on. Some asshats just robbed the coin shop located about 10 yards from my front door.”
So, like, uh....were the cameras on?
I understand that these drugs can get you hooked easily. I had my own brush with Vicodin a few years back. I contracted pneumonia. I had the most exquisitely painful cough with it and could not work or get any rest. The regular stuff didn't touch the cough so the doctor prescribed a Vicodin syrup. It did the trick-stopped the cough cold, like flicking a switch-but I found that if I discontinued it the cough would come back twice as bad. After two weeks and two bottles of syrup I realized that the pneumonia must have cleared and that I was getting hooked on the med. I went cold turkey and just dealt with the phantom cough and anxiety. I had an unpleasant week and then I was fine. But I can see why people might go in for it. It makes you warm, dreamy and carefree with a mere theraputic dose. I suspect that if you take a lot of it you can "go places". No thanks.
The local keystone cops have still not secured the crime scene. If the old guy doesn't make it and these idiots have not done their job then likely the perps (if ever caught) will walk on some stupid technicality because our police force is a bunch of brain-dead rambo wanna-bes!
In case you have not seen my idea before:
Last year I lost a dear relative who had paid into Medicare her entire life. When she got cancer the fedgov said that the treatment that would give her a shot at survival was too expensive considering her 75 years.
They put her on hospice and pumped her full of morphine until she died.
Why don’t we have hospice for drug addicts and alcoholics?
They have a terminal disease and most are not interested in treatment.
No, we should not legalize drugs.
When someone is picked up for possession or commits multiple DUIs we give them the choice of jail w/ rehab or drug abuse hospice.
The hospice supplies a bunk, three hot meals, and all the drugs they want. Any drug. For free, just like Grandma got.
The addict can opt to leave at any time if they go to rehab or jail as appropriate. If they stay, they must agree to mandatory birth control (don’t need no crackbabies) and a DNR (do not resuscitate) order in case they OD.
The problem with drug addicts is that they try to recruit more users to fund their habit. They also are responsible for a large percentage of crime, prostitution, etc.
Terrorists, e.g., the Taliban, get their funding from drugs.
Removing the addicts defunds the narcos from Afganistan to our own cities. Crooked pols and cops will lose out.
We could save not only on prisons, but also on medical care, the war on drugs, and the damage wrought by crime.
The libertarian side of me says, “If they want to kill themselves, who are we to stand in their way?”
The conservative side of me says, “I don’t want them in my neighborhood”.
So our society is FORCING Grandma to shoot up morphine while we spend thousands saving the life of a crackhead who OD’s. The crackhead would LOVE to shoot up morphine every day.
Once again, why don’t we allow the addicts to opt for hospice where they can party until they croak?