Posted on 07/20/2007 5:10:18 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
This happened in Philadelphia, wanna bet momma was on drugs?
Crack and heroin are very similar to meth in this regard...
I certainly hope not.
i know... it's very sad... but if she makes even the slightest attempt to get her baby back, she will, eventually... we adopted both of our boys from our county's foster system... even though their birth mom had already lost her first two children to the county (her sister adopted them after her rights were terminated) she could have gotten our two sons back if she had made even the slightest effort...
Well, they are certainly bad enough, but I.V. meth is in a class by itself. I've helped take care of thousands of addicts, and none of them were as far gone as the tweakers.
-ccm
Geezus, it’s hard to believe it can get any worse.
Some people make such a case for forced sterilization.....
“Geezus, it’s hard to believe it can get any worse.”
Oh, we’re already THERE, my FRiend. She’ll get her kid back. ;)
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Opiates are tough to kick but it is done all the time. People get off heroin and stay off. It's not like that with the meth, at least not nearly as often.
Pure opiates are also much less damaging to the body than methamphetamine. If an addict can get pure pharmaceutical grade opiates, and knows what dose he is getting, the risk of overdose is quite low. Constipation is his biggest problem.
Most of the ill effects of opiates come from overdose due to unexpectedly strong un-labeled heroin bought illegally on the street, or from sharing needles, or from the filth that is used to "cut" the drug for illegal sale.
There used to be a real problem with doctors and pharmacists who had long, productive careers while hooked on morphine, and only got caught when they retired and couldn't get their goodies as easily.
Meth, on the other hand, can have any of a number of serious toxic effects such as brain hemorrhages and cardiomyopathy. And once someone is hooked on intravenous meth, you can pretty much write them off forever as a member of the human race.
Horrifying. How does crack compare. Never getting off of it sounds like the same thing.
The abuse of children. . .and animals for that matter, the outrageious suffering incurred because these people choose crack or whatever drug of choice is beyond sickening.
Wish these Libs worried as much about the damage done by drugs as they do about cigarrettes. But it just does not fit their Liberal desgined MO.
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