Posted on 08/21/2018 9:02:29 AM PDT by davikkm
A harrowing scene unfolded in New Haven, Connecticut last week when 100 people overdosed on some form of K2, regularly and inaccurately called synthetic marijuana. While New Haven officials were responding to some 76 people, Rick Fontana, New Haven Emergency Operations Director, got a call on 19 additional reports of overdoses occuring in the same area in New Haven Green, a large park in the city’s downtown.
72 people were transported to the hospital but no one died. However, three people, considered “persons of interest,” were arrested last Wednesday in connection with the overdoses.
The drug, K2, is a synthetic cannabinoid created with a host of chemicals that can be either sprayed on dry plants and smoked or sold as liquids to be inhaled. K2 can be anywhere from 2 to 100 times as potent as THC.
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There is something scary going on in America today. We are suffering from a spate of drug addiction and mental health issues. And have gone from a society that worried about what we were going to eat to one that eats so much we suffer from high levels of obesity. We seem incapable of accepting life on life’s terms, unable to stay away from a life of drugs and alcohol. We become addicted to living in an altered state of reality, suppressing our emotions, and giving in to the temptation of dangerous drugs. People are killing themselves in increasing numbers. A quarter of our population is disabled. And opioids are destroying a huge swath of the country.
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“And have gone from a society that worried about what we were going to eat....”
That’s the key right there. It used to be, that everyone had to work in order to live, so they had a lot to do.
What happens when a society gets too rich?
I’m of the belief that if it’s a overdose....you get one free trip to the hospital. On the second overdose, either you crank out $10k right there on the spot, or we leave you there.
YEP...those with no PURPOSE live lives of NO purpose...especially boys.
No it is what happens when a society rejects God. It leaves guidance and a hole in the heart that cannot be filled.
“What happens when a society gets too rich?”
Or...
What happens when - rich or poor - people don’t have to work and earn to achieve whatever station they have in life?
Not unrelated, this President has always had a tremendous work ethic; doesn’t drink alcohol or use illicit drugs. ONE of the reasons I though he would be a good president is that the people would be motivated to emulate him.
I’m sure a good number already do, but clearly not enough.
Some people end up in the ER on a weekly basis from drug abuse. It is not only a drain on the hospital but also the paramedics and police who have to respond to the 911 call.
“Hand in Hand”
I read just a while back (and I can’t remember where I read it) that Obama had some measure passed or executive order signed that allowed clinics to increase their opioid output. And just after that the opioid problem escalated. I don’t know where I read it. Maybe Obozo was getting things ready for his healthcare “solution.”
Not to be confused with vitamin K2, available in your local supplement store.
And that’s just the MSM, J Street and H-Wood. Who knows how badly off the rest of us are?
I am convinced that the hard life faced by Americans living up until the early part of the 1900s weeded out the weaklings, those unable to cope. Those who depended on drugging themselves either by alcohol or drugs simply to get through the day. Since about the 60s, it seems to me that we’ve had many more people addicted to drugs, many more people who must face that thing called “life”—with all its joys, hardships, sorrows—anesthetized. Their only hope in life is that next dose of their drug of choice. Never has it been so apparent and in such great numbers as today. I shudder at the number of people overdosing and keeling over. But I consider them to be weaklings who simply are not up to the challenges of modern life. Would they have been able to withstand blazing new trails in the West? Surviving a concentration camp? It is very sad to see this contemporary evolution of those who can cope and those who can only cope by artificial means, i.e. drugs.
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