Posted on 03/03/2018 3:53:30 PM PST by Kaslin
opoid abuse is a US only problem.
why is that?
I can’t even imagine the pain. I am praying for your family!
Know, that’s why the makers of oxycodone were sued and lost for lying about the addictive effects of the med.
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Sued and lost does not prove lost justly in today’s court system. The fact is that you have to be lacking sense not to know that prolonged use of pain killers is addictive. Natural pain killers are addictive. My uneducated grandparents knew that.
What are these kids doing in college if they are that irresponsible??
“What goes on in today’s colleges to induce seemingly normal kids to do things like that? And don’t tell us it’s the fault eedof the drug manufacturers.”
I heard in on Hannity and he stated the son took something (Zanex) to take the edge off anxiety of finals, or something to that effect.
It turned out the drug contained Fentenyl
It's broader than that. A close friend of mine's son was an Army class advisor at West Point and he died of a drug overdose.
While I never discussed it with my friend, I suspect his son was addicted to opioid pain killers due to a broken back suffered while deployed to Iraq.........(His assignment to WP was due to the fact he was a WP grad...)
So sorry for your loss. Prayers.
God bless and keep you and your family. Your son is waiting patiently for you in Heaven, and watches over you now.
My brother committed suicide 40 years ago. The only reason it didn’t break my parents was because of their faith in God.
See my post #7
correct he had xanax, pot, and 2 different types of fentenyl in his system.
That's an understatement. I could not live anymore. I do not know how parents do it.
While I never liked pot, and I don’t even drink anymore. I’d much rather be around people who have smoked pot than have been drinking. Especially while sober, there’s nothing more obnoxious than being around people who are drinking. Pot doesn’t turn people into jack-asses.
May God rest his soul and I pray for your peace.
I don’t understand this whole opioid problem. I don’t even know what an opioid is.
Until it touches your life, you can’t understand how shocking this sounds when you first hear it.
A very close friend of mine had her life destroyed by Opioids.
When she first told me, I looked for logic and understanding and found none.
It was only when I heard of others lives being destroyed that I began to understand.
That it all started once the USA got involved in Afghanistan and drug companies got a cheap source to create a new level of pain killer and then proceeded to prescribe it for everything.
What's going on is what has always been going on--thinking of your professor as some kind of supernatural being who plays the role by giving or not giving approval; superceding one's own demythologized parents. And today's college teachers by and large are not ones that I would place a child with. I have seen them in their off-hours, as well as what they do with their own children and the influences they expose them to.
"Don't send my boy to Haavaahd," the dying mother sad.
"Don't send my boy to See-rah-kyoose, I'd rather see him DEAD!
But send my boy to Prince-tun; or better yet, Cor-nell! But as for Penn-syl-vay-nah-yee -- I'd see him first in . . ."
Having trod both sides of the highway to Hell, I can recommend you not to send your child even to high school, until he/she has grasped who one is, and can stand his/her self-value with a maturity against all comers. Otherwise, university is likely to twist them beyond all recognition.
The only places worthy of consideration are Christan-run colleges that truly live up to their faith and ideals and can demonstrate it by their graduates.
Forty years ago, I would have said let him/her first serve a two-year hitch in one of the Armed Forces, then college; but I have the feeling that it no longer applies.
We have come to an age where few youths are able to fend for themselves at the age of sixteen. Today's twenty-fivers are still living at home if not in colleges or the Army. Or in jail.
My home-schooled grandchildren have been the best-prepared for their futures.
Ethyl alcohol does the same thing, although it may take a few years longer and leave one half a man rather than a dead one. They are all poisons, and you can include the addictive steroids and psychoactive mind-bending drugs as well.
All you need to know is Obama called pushers non-violent criminals and put them all back on the streets.
They should be executed.
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