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Free bags of heroin sicken at least 7 on West Side (Chicago)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| 8-17-2005
| Annie Sweeney
Posted on 08/17/2005 1:15:00 PM PDT by Cagey
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To: Lazamataz
Addicts. There's a difference.
Addiction - surrendering control of self to a thing, very bad
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
To: Holicheese
Yes, you should refrain from taking the Pepsi/Coke challenge at all costs. They fill your mailbox with propaganda until you move. ;)
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:26:45 PM PDT
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: HangnJudge
Addiction - surrendering control of self to a thing, very badAgreed.
However, with this broad form of definition, those who covet consumer goods can be labeled as addicts.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:28:34 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
To: tfecw
There was a story a while back about terrorists approching the drug cartels in south America. Seems that the cartels didn't see the productivity in killing their clients.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:28:35 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: Lazamataz
However, with this broad form of definition, those who covet consumer goods can be labeled as addicts.
This is a functional definition, not a medical / physiological one
but it works for me
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
To: Cagey
Was the free heroin given out by the democratic party or the NAALCP to register voters?
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:32:30 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: SlowBoat407
LoL. Burrough's writing was fascinating. Wierd, perverted, loathesome but fascinating. While Naked Lunch was the best The Ticket that Exploded, The Soft Machine, Nova Express also very interesting. Even his straight narratives like the Wild Boys were good. As was a biography, Literary Outlaw.
To: Cagey
At least one victim was found passed out with his fists clenched That doesn't sound like a purity problem to me, as it seems like really pure heroin would just make you completely go limp, and hit the floor in a state of poppy produced oblivion.
To: Lazamataz
Let's shoot for not bending over backwards to pour pity on every single person who has an addiction.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:34:30 PM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(As for the types of comments I make,sometimes I just, By God,get carried away with my own eloquence.)
To: Holicheese
So if someone is offering free coke I should just say NO?
Yes and also PepsiFree
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:35:21 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror.)
To: justshutupandtakeit
Whoa, okay, you're maybe just a little too into Burroughs!
: )
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
freedomson
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To: ShadowDancer
Let's shoot for not bending over backwards to pour pity on every single person who has an addiction.I have great empathy for the still-suffering addict. I was one.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:37:08 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
To: cripplecreek
there was a story a while back about terrorists approching the drug cartels in south America. Seems that the cartels didn't see the productivity in killing their clients.
Right, I was thinking more a pissed off father or something like that with the vigilante idea. I think my imagination is running wild with that one though. Probably someone screwed up a batch and wasn't going to tell his extremely dangerous boss he contaminated (enter extremely high number)dollars of Heroin, or ran out out of whatever they usually cut H with and substituted with something else.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:37:52 PM PDT
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: Cagey
Read this in the New York Post Yesterday...
August 16, 2005 -- A $20 bag of bad drugs bought outside a Lower East Side bar may have been what killed two bright co-eds found unconscious in an apartment after a day of boozing, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Cops who believe the tragic teens bought coke and possibly heroin on a party bender Friday are now investigating whether their deaths can be linked to a bad batch of narcotics that also may have led to the death, by apparent overdose, of a man in his Lower East Side apartment Wednesday, sources said.
Kristopher Korkowski, a 24-year-old Russian hairdresser, was found unconscious on his sofa in his home on Avenue B.
Popular NYU scholarship student Maria Pesantez, 18, and her high-school pal, Mellie Carballo, an 18-year-old Hunter College freshman, died after passing out in the home of an ex-con and his friend whom they had met up with at the bar, sources said.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162005/news/regionalnews/51944.htm
To: Lazamataz
I know you were. That doesn't change that most people can change their behavior if they really want to. A friend of my husband's just died at the age of 44 due to alcohol and prescription drug abuse. I didn't grieve for him one bit. I did and do the wife and three boys he left behind when it wasn't written in stone that it had to be.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:40:31 PM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(As for the types of comments I make,sometimes I just, By God,get carried away with my own eloquence.)
To: tfecw
Yeah, if terrorists did something like this they would use ricin or something and be done with it.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:41:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: freedomson
Well I have read everything I am aware of that he has written. But that goes for many authors.
Hey who wouldn't wonder about a guy who shot H for 40 or 50 years and knew more about drugs than the Pharmacy School at the University of Illinois.
To: Lazamataz
I was a drunk for years and that's just as bad in my book.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:42:29 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: ShadowDancer
I grieve for him. I grieve for any addict who never hears the message of NA, or who hears it and doesn't heed it.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:47:37 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
To: Lazamataz
Sorry, I can't agree with you there.
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posted on
08/17/2005 1:49:14 PM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(As for the types of comments I make,sometimes I just, By God,get carried away with my own eloquence.)
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