Posted on 12/25/2014 7:08:29 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
FLORENCE, Ky. – Briana and Kaitlyn Himes said they feel lucky they're not planning a funeral for their parents after five adults overdosed on heroin at their parents' mobile home Saturday.
While the adults got high and passed out, three children they were supposed to be caring for – ages 1, 11 and 12 - were in the house with them, according to a Boone County deputy's report.
The Himes sisters said the adults might have died if their uncle, Michael Young, hadn't arrived just in time to save them.
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Menefree said snorting heroin is easy while supervising children because it only takes a few seconds to do a line in the bathroom, so she doesn't need anyone to watch her kids, according to the report. But Menefree repeatedly told Theetge she made a mistake doing heroin that night, the deputy wrote.
Only the fact that it’s Christmas Day, prevents me from commenting on this the way it deserves...
A friend of mine recently divorced his wife of 20 plus years because she got addicted to meth...She was in her 50's when she started...
"Friends" at work got her hooked...
did they have any money for presents for the kids after spending it all on drugs
>>The Himes sisters said the adults might have died if their uncle, Michael Young, hadn’t arrived just in time to save them
Haverhill MA some weeks ago, 8 and 10 yr old children wake up to find both parents dead of heroin overdose
Horrible.
I’ll be straight with you. I read this last night before bed and when I read the quote I had listed up there i was stunned but I started laughing. It was like the Mary Tyler Moore/Chuckles the clown moment. I laughed until I cried. I know these people are having a tough time with addiction but ...
Mr. niteowl77
Kentucky was once only known for its bluegrass, horse racing, and fried chicken cooked up using an Army officers secret recipe. Today Kentucky is know for its blue meth, trailer folks snorting horse and civilians cooking up crystal meth using their grand pappy's secret recipe.
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Dear Lord, help these children.
All the high end pain killers are opiate based. We quite literally created a nation of junkies with Oxy and its friends, then we realized that was a mistake and clamped down on the scrip houses, but forgot about all the people that were already hooked. That’s a major source of the adult heroin problem.
I think we did that back in the '50s with barbiturates and amphetamines. Synthetic drugs didn't have the stigma attached to the opium-derived drugs like heroin that the "drug addicts" used.
Read somewhere that 50 % of adults in drug treatment centers were hooked on Oxy prescribed by their doctors because of injury or auto accidents ...
Regular Joe and Jane citizens who simply hurt themselves wind up as junkies...very sad
I had knee surgery several years ago and was prescribed a form of Oxy...took it for two days and was like whoa this stuff really puts the hooks into you...I stopped cold turkey and just did large doses of Aleve...
When the government/EPA makes coal mining or lumbering impossible there are a lot of people out of work.
I’m not saying these people couldn’t have made better choices but I understand the hopelessness they feel and the poverty they live in. Who but a leftie wakes up and says “I want to be a heroin addict”?
100% right. How many vets are now on heroin because the VA care plan was 80 mg Oxy for six months, then cut them off on the first day of the 7th month. Listen to Sam Stone by John Prine and realize the the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just the wars have changed. I feel sorry for anyone hooked on opiates..
I want you to know I admire your self awareness. Few people have that and it’s something to treasure.
had knee surgery several years ago and was prescribed a form of Oxy...took it for two days and was like whoa this stuff really puts the hooks into you...I stopped cold turkey and just did large doses of Aleve...
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Smart move. My mother was addicted to Oxy for years until her passing. I have had a severe uncomfortability with opiate pain killers for a lot of years because of this. Had an injury a few years ago (5# sledge into my middle finger) and they gave me a shot of morphine because the end bone in my finger was dust - never felt more uncomfortable in my life.
I’m an Alumni of the Origins Recovery Center, spent my time there a few years back. While some of us were there for alcohol most were there for drug addictions and most were over 30 and had jobs. To look at them you’d never guess they were addicts, they held good jobs and dressed well. One in particular who I developed a friendship with was an offshore guide in the Bahama’s and was running three boats and doing well. He was also a heroin addict and began using when he was 40.
Thank you...
I grew up in the drug soaked 60's and 70's and saw my share of friends would up dead because of that lack of self awareness...!
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