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Mother’s Little Helper Has Become America’s Big Problem
Townhall.com ^ | March 21, 2018 | Bob Barr

Posted on 03/21/2018 2:10:20 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/21/2018 2:10:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
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> The Rolling Stones presaged America’s obsession with pharmaceutical “therapy” in songs such as “19th Nervous Breakdown” and “Mother’s Little Helper,” recorded in the mid-1960s; decades before today’s crisis.

Pretty sure King Crimson had them beat in the predicting-the-future-with-classic-rock department with “21 Century Schizoid Man”.


2 posted on 03/21/2018 2:15:59 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Kaslin
There are pills that make you happy.
There are pills that make you blue.
There are pills to kill our streptococci.
There are pills to cure your cockeye too.
There are folks whose pills have made them healthy.
There are folks whose pills have cure their chills.
But the folks whose plls have made them wealthy
Are the folks who make all the pills.

3 posted on 03/21/2018 2:16:00 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Kaslin

Let’s just go back to Neanderthal days, problems solved


4 posted on 03/21/2018 2:24:17 PM PDT by heights
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What about the fact that most of the recent mass murderers have recently been on psychotropic medications? The media says nothing...


5 posted on 03/21/2018 2:32:22 PM PDT by bennowens
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To: heights

How long before we relearn which plants have pharmaceutical properties?

Not Sarcasm, just a realistic question.

that level of technology, every one dies before 40 no thanks.

18th or 19th century perhaps, but not 30,000 years.


6 posted on 03/21/2018 2:33:15 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: heights

Neanderthal medical ad:

“Club to head fix all problems!*”

*May cause dizziness, slobbering, uncontrollable bowel movements, stuttering, shortness of breath, blurred vision, seizures, lack of motor control, internal hemorraghing, numbness, slurred speech, facial tics, and premature death. Consult your local witch doctor before any course of treatment.


7 posted on 03/21/2018 2:33:20 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Kaslin

To hear Trump talk, our problem with pills is not caused by shrinks and a receptive public, but by street hoods and Mexican illegals. Execute the hoods but leave the psychiatric profession free to peddle its pill-for-everything approach.


8 posted on 03/21/2018 2:37:47 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Kaslin

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyMBuM5AVw


9 posted on 03/21/2018 2:38:54 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: heights
Let’s just go back to Neanderthal days, problems solved


10 posted on 03/21/2018 2:38:54 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: Kaslin
a result of the government’s recent crackdown on opioid abuse, they have become both harder to obtain legally and more expensive on the black market; thereby causing addicts to turn to a far more dangerous substance -- heroin.

And the truth of the new war on Opiods comes out!! The Legal Pills have been cutting into their Action in the illicit Drug Trade.

Seeds of Terror

How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K

Drug shipments off of Africa have “significantly increased since 2009”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml&section=international

Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda By Rachel Ehrenfeld, Special to CNN -May 4, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/03/ehrenfeld.al.qaeda.funding/

Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert 2013
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/253421/qatar-used-as-transit-point-by-drug-traffickers-expert-

Obama secretly released high risk Taliban terrorists to the care of Qatar. (Qatar is where the US established for Taliban headquarters in 2011.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-offers-the-taliban-a-new-mideast-headquarters-2011-9

Islamic Revolutionaries under any name you google are tied to the Heroin trade along with most other drugs, as well as human trafficking.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/12/talibans-new-role-afghanistans-drug-mafia-237524.html

Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053

Terrorists in “Americas Back Yard”

State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/

“There has indeed been a “marked resurgence” of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives home, here’s an even more disturbing fact — Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States’ backyard to “sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks” for decades.”

“Criminal plans” by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/

Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm

Obama’s America:

“The horrific toll of America’s heroin ‘epidemic”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422

America’s Heroin Epidemic -BBC 2014

The SEC sees no evil while Wall Street banks launder $BILLIONS in cartel
money. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

Hedge Fund Manager, Banker, and the largest Individual donor to Obama’s coiffeurs, continues to pour $Millions into thenDrug Legalization Campaign, made to look like citizen activism. George Soros 2/2014
http://www.hightimes.com/read/how-one-percent-will-legalize-marijuana

As “medical marijuana” legalization spreads across the country, police and other industry warnings about the dangers of legalizing marijuana ignored by media
http://www.flsheriffs.org/newsroom/entry/florida-sheriffs-pass-resolution-to-oppose-the-legalization-of-marijuana

DEA has been caught laundering money as well, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS

Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the itelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/

“Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.”

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014 more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners

The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html

The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/

Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html

Opiates are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing car crashes and alcohol.
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/prescription-painkillers-overtake-car-crashes-leading-accidental-death-us/

Banks Laundering Cartel Drug Money -Rampant
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205

BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay

Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/

Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis -2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html

Drug dealing, informant get border pass -2014
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432

EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed Jul 08, 2014
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982

The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking July 11, 2014 by Arnold
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/
11 posted on 03/21/2018 2:39:47 PM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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well duh. No disrespect to the author but that wasn’t very incisive.


12 posted on 03/21/2018 2:40:57 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I'm tired of living in the kinder gentler soviet union.)
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To: billorites
Here's a minor hit from the late 1970s...

20/20 "Yellow Pills"

13 posted on 03/21/2018 2:43:33 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Kaslin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ka77SJA6o (2:45) W/lyrics - Mother's little helper - Rolling Stones...
14 posted on 03/21/2018 2:46:10 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson))
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ka77SJA6o oops!


15 posted on 03/21/2018 2:46:52 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson))
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SOMA........................


16 posted on 03/21/2018 2:53:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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I still remember the good stuff! DRISTAN! Hexeclorphene! Cyclamates! Miles nerve tonic!


17 posted on 03/21/2018 3:01:19 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: bennowens
“What about the fact that most of the recent mass murderers have recently been on psychotropic medications? The media says nothing...”

I don't think there's a connection, beyond proving that psychotropic meds don't help some people. Read the book Columbine by Dave Cullen. Those two murderers would have shot up that school even if they hadn't been on meds.

18 posted on 03/21/2018 3:08:06 PM PDT by utahagen (but but)
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To: Kaslin

Xanax is the gen-x version of Valium.

CC


19 posted on 03/21/2018 3:13:26 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
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I have worked directly or indirectly in the pharmaceutical industry since 1991. I have read all of the documentation on the products and seen the legal papers from inside the companies. I wouldn’t take an aspirin unless I was convinced I would die in the next 12 hours if I didn’t take it.


20 posted on 03/21/2018 3:14:41 PM PDT by alephnull (Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of death.)
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