Heroin deaths surpass gun homicides for the first time, CDC data show

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 9, 2016 | Christopher Ingraham

[Red in Blue PA]

The government needs to ban heroin. Oh wait........

[GailA]

Heroin is an illegal street drug, not a legal pain med.

Meth seizures rise at U.S.-Mexico border [ 300% increase from 2009 ]
http://www.thonline.com/news/national_world/article_b43a95e1-4246-56d6-b67f-7ee6dba9ad9a.html

DEA WAR ON DRS
http://www.federaljack.com/is-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-drugs%E2%80%9D-as-phony-as-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-terror%E2%80%9D/

This one you have to read down the article to find most OD’ deaths were caused by a secondary addiction. Not a script med. NO CONNECTION TO PAIN MEDS
ADDICTION https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/6/12/there-is-no-epidemic-of-painkiller-overdose

Philadelphia had 35 drug overdoses in 5 days (HERION laced with script med)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEROIN_OVERDOSES_PHILADELPHIA?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-09-16-23-21

[GailA]

There are 1.33 MILLION Chronic Pain patients with incurable diseases, and pain meds are the only reason they function or can get out of bed. You can’t lump us all in the same category.

My Seizure Med is classified on that DEA list. It controls 3 diseases or conditions from Meniere’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear that causes episodes in which you feel as if have vertigo, you puke, and have diarrhea, and reel like a drunk on a week long bender, and you have fluctuating hearing loss with a progressive, ultimately permanent loss of hearing, ringing in the ear (tinnitus), I’ve lost half my low Freq hearing, and wear twin hearing aids, and sometimes a feeling of fullness or pressure in your ear. My first Vertigo attack I was 62, crawled to the bathroom to puke my guts up and ended up in the ER. And nerve damage that causes Peripheral Neuropathy due to spinal degeneration, and Fibromyalgia which I’ve had 30+ yrs now NO CURE for any of it. Touch my spine and it will crumble.

Now to get my seizure med I have to PEE in a bottle under supervision every 3 months like a street junkie. My dr fears arrest for even scripting for it.

DEA shortage of pain meds
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13166594/dea-opioid-epidemic-manufacturer-2017-substance-

New DEA rules place more restrictions on popular painkillers
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/new-dea-rules-place-more-restrictions- on-popular-painkillers/

Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing

Chronic health conditions
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/NHC_Files/Pdf_Files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf

[Laser_Ray]

Executing mules and smugglers caught at the border would be common sense and should have been done decades ago.

And I say that knowing some of the mules have been blackmailed into doing it or are desperate and trying to make a living. But if the cartels see that their old tricks don’t work, they’ll stop using them which means less people suffer overall.

We should also be sending SpecOps teams to wax dealers overseas and taking a cue from the Pauls and putting out Letters of Marque. Tell the world that the first person to ventilate their skulls and prove they did it gets a briefcase full of cash, NQA.