Heroin got the bump-up because of the opioid high-usage, and when doctors got pressured to lessen prescriptions, the opioid-users quietly flipped to the best alternate medication...Heroin.
The Hezbollah guys do fall into the mix because they became the ‘cartel’ that moved the drug out of Afghanistan, and into Europe and the US. It finances their operation, and their thugs.
But all of this goes back to the late 1990s when the pain-killers got market approval, and started the perception that you could control pain better.
Actually, opioids cure some issues. I know.
Really ?
That's funny because I've been taking different opioid based meds for several years for Severe Bilateral Neuropathy in My feet up to the knees and now in the last 8 months into both Hands.
Now My Doctor can't Rx them for Me anymore. Now I have to go to a "pain clinic" to the tune of $600.00 for initial visit, $325.00 for monthly follow ups AND pay $75.00 for a damned Piss test EVERY MONTH. That really shoots the hell out of $1200.00 a month SSDI.
It's a REAL PAIN IN THE A$$.
And BTW I did NOT run out to the Street to buy Heroin...
PS- a Rx for 30 day supply is $200.00.
Try to be legal about things and I just get SCREWED!!!!!!!
I've got the answer for the REAL JUNKIES problem. Get busted once, clean up your act. Second bust- I'll donate the required caliber round so they can be shot in the head and that will quickly remove the "junkie" problem.
People switching from prescription opiates to heroin are a percentage of the users but they do not completely explain the present epidemic. It’s a complex situation with plenty of fault to go around. Doctors aren’t prescribing crystal meth. They aren’t prescribing ecstasy. They aren’t prescribing cocaine. They aren’t behind the legal weed movement. We are a nation of drug addicts. We create an enormous demand for all drugs and there are organizations ready and able to profit from our nation-wide substance abuse problem.
Too many users are chasing the dragon. Liberal laws on marijuana create a drug culture that says recreational drug use is A-OK. This is how many of the users start chasing the dragon. Many of these users wind up on a fast train, headed straight to hell. Given the strong addictive qualities of heroin, a user’s productive life is lost to society.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chasing%20the%20dragon
Add in GWB’s failure to destroy the Poppy crops of Iraq & Afghanistan, there is a federal law that applies to foreign cotton growing competing with US Cotton growers.
Then the Tax $$ being demanded. This has not been posted.
IT’S ABOUT TAX $$ NOT A ‘FAKE OPIOID CRISIS’
Dem Sen Hassan: We Need $25 Billion in Additional Spending to Combat Opioid Crisis
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/01/06/dem-sen-hassan-we-need-25-billion-in-additional-spending-to-combat-opioid-crisis/
10 Myths of Opioid Crisis
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/12/24/10-myths-about-the-opioid-crisis
Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/
Chasing the wrong Epidemic
https://thecrimereport.org/2018/01/02/chasing-the-wrong-epidemic/
HISTORY OF DRUG TRAFFICKING
http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-drug-trafficking
CIA Fueling New U.S. Drug Epidemic Using Cheap Afghani Heroin?; CIA, Obama Team Up to Hide Darkest Secrets
http://americanfreepress.net/is-cia-fueling-new-u-s-drug-epidemic-using-cheap-heroin-from-afghanistan-cia-obama-team-up-to-hide-darkest-secrets/
Illegals responsible for 3/4th of fed drug possession...smugglers (link to long to form)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/illegal-immigrants-responsible-for-almost -three-fourths-of-federal-drug-possession-sentences-in-2014/article/2567814
The truth about crime, illegal immigrants and sanctuary cities
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/329589-the-truth-about-crime-illegal-immigrants-and-sanctuary-cities