Posted on 07/30/2017 8:52:34 PM PDT by Radio Free Tuscaloosa
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry said Sunday that her only child, 22-year-old Max Barry, has died of an apparent drug overdose.
An emotional statement released by the mayor and her husband, Bruce Barry, said their son died in Denver on Saturday night.
"Early this morning, we received news that no parents should ever have to hear. Our son Max suffered from an overdose and passed away. We cannot begin to describe the pain and heartbreak that comes with losing our only child. Our son was a kind soul full of life and love for his family and friends," the statement said. "Our family would greatly appreciate your thoughts and prayers, and would respectfully ask for privacy as we mourn the loss of our child and begin to understand a world without his laughter and love in our lives."
Max Barry graduated in June from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. It is unclear what exactly he overdosed on.
Funeral arrangements were pending as of Sunday and will be announced once plans are made, the mayor's office said.
With her husband and son by her side, Megan Barry was sworn in as Nashville's first female mayor in September 2015.
Denver Police Department spokeswoman Raquel Lopez declined to search the department's records and logs for the police report of Barry's death when asked by The Associated Press, saying that would violate the department's policy of not identifying victims.
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I truly believe that we have this situation because this country has allowed the wholesale of drugging our children in schools due to the supposed “ADD/ADHD” epidemic. It’s just a way to have little robots in classrooms rather than having to teach correct behavior. Our kids are being drugged their entire lives and when they get into their teenage years and above they need stronger drugs to satisfy their needs to remove their “perceived problems”. They’re completely conditioned/taught to taking a drug to make everything ok in their lives.
I had a client in the 80s that explained how drugs get brought into the country. You have a supply officer on naval ships around the world. They pick up steel barrels from lets say panama. You tell the supply officer that the barrels are not to be opened. He wants to save his career so he wont. Those barrels are then unloaded at our bases here in America. Money is handled through international banks. Done. These people across the boarder are small producers.
Been there ourselves
Its an unfathomable tragedy
God bless them
And our govt wants to give 45 billion to people who will then tell other people not to overdose.
Addiction is not a disease. It is a behavior problem. One does not come into contact with addiction the same as one does a germ or a virus. To become an addict you must pursue it over time. It doesn’t happen instantly. And a death due to overdose rarely ever happens with the first dose. One doesn’t suffer from an overdose. They expose themselves to that risk multiple times because of poor behavior of their own.
Recovering addicts prove that by changing their behavior addiction can be overcome. The dead ones failed to change their behavior.
I just posted the same thing as you. Should have read all the the posts before posting mine. I truly believe there is a correlation between the two.
I had the same thought. Tacoma, Washington - chock full of druggies and they do nothing about it. Let the good times roll.
I have watched the practice of medicine evolve from “try to make the patient well” to PAIN IS THE 5TH VITAL SIGN. This came on the back of “Valley of the Dolls” romance with anxiety meds. We in medicine are trying to turn the ship around (at least in N.C but it is a hard slog with the media romanticizing making drugs (Breaking Bad- Snow fall)and popular shows romanticizing pot ( I really do have a need for medical marijuana). Are there medical providers making money off the opioid crisis ?- YES . Are there people trying to stop the madness ? YES..There will be casualties that are heart breaking but no innocent participants..
Heroin is not active when taken orally. If it is distributed in capsule form, it must still be either snorted or injected (or maybe smoked). And realistically, it takes more than "once or twice" to get hooked.
In any event, the elevated risk is, of course, due to the black market status of the drug, where strength can vary greatly from dealer to dealer, or even from batch to batch.
Additionally, dealers are apparently using fentanyl as an additive in some cases, and since fentanyl dosage is measured in micrograms—not milligrams—it's even more likely that someone will measure something wrong, and thereby produce an even more deadly concoction.
Think about the people that are putting together these pill capsules. They're not exactly assistant pharmacists, as you can imagine.
Down here in South Florida recently, a 10-year-old boy died simply from coming into contact with fentanyl during the course of his daily activities. As far as I'm aware, somehow he merely touched a sample, and enough got in through his skin to kill him.
As problematic as pharmaceutical opiates may be with respect to addiction, in many cases "crackdowns" are leading addicts into acquiring street drugs such as heroin in lieu of the pharmaceuticals they can no longer obtain. Unintended consequences of the War on Drugs and Contraband Law.
I would suspect that most fatalities related to pharmaceutical opiates such as Oxcontin are actually suicides, or else the result of careless combinations with benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) such as Valium, Xanax, etc. You see jokes about Xanax and the like on sitcoms nowadays.
However, to die as a result of a pharmaceutical overdose, one must make a bona fide effort, or else be completely uneducated.
Contraband Law (prohibition) creates its own set of dangers, which is among the reasons I'm adamantly opposed to it. If addicts are maintaining their habits using pharmaceuticals, where they know what they're getting, the risk of accidental overdose is significantly reduced, and at least they are more likely to remain alive, with a chance to undergo rehabilitation, for example.
Draconian measures—including the failed experiment of alcohol (which is a drug) Prohibition—have been tried for 100 years with zero success, and have resulted in profound erosion of Constitutional rights, with the ever-expanding Police State apparatus necessary to enforce them. Education and rehabilitation are infinitely preferable. IMHO, addiction is a challenge that any free society must face without resorting to Authoritarian shortcuts...
Maybe this can bring a few more people around to the drug problem in middle America that NEEDS fixing!
It is this type of defeatist attitude that got our butts kicked by the Germans at Pearl Harbor.
“I don’t guess you understand addiction.”
Weak willed cowards that want what they do while often claiming they don’t.
Nothing forces anyone to ingest or inject any substance. Nothing. Bottles, bongs, and needles don’t have brains or muscles. They can’t force anyone to do anything.
Addicts are not “victims”. A victim is someone who is forced beyond their control.
Do you have data that would suggest that only liberals lose children to drug abuse?
“On Judge Jeannine this weekend she went down to the border...”
“they shown her large bundles of drugs smuggled in from Mexico..”
With her busy docket, I’m surprised that Justice Jeannine would have time to head to the border to look for drugs.
I did not say that. I just said she is another liberal who tells me how to run my life and hers is a total failure.
“No parent should have to hear”
Should be “every parent dreads to hear”
Have to hear sounds like it’s about them
Maybe it’s just me
I used to know her husband Bruce in passing
Nice man but ultra lib...and I mean ultra
Big in early days of the Nashville Scene a local rag sold to the Village Voice companies
These are rich lib Belle Meade-Richland -West End folks
Pity though
I’m guessing heroin in Denver
Opioid Crisis is largely based on aging population bubble
It’s hype to expand federal spending into states over medical care
He had a history of this
It’s a siren call
“She failed as a mother to guide here child. Sad that it happened but she lacks parenting skills.”
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Bull**** !!!!!!!!!
Are you insane?
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