Posted on 03/08/2014 6:35:15 AM PST by mgist
Last week, Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment with a heroin needle in his arm. The Oscar-winning actor was one of an increasing number of Americans who have died as a result of the drug once untouched by everyone besides so-called “junkies.” All around the country, health officials are warning of a new heroin epidemic – affecting new demographics in new places – that was simmering to a boil long before Hoffman died.
National data is released frustratingly slowly, but recent reports out of Washington state, New York City and Maryland suggest that, over the next several years as national data trickles out, heroin deaths will be up across the board.
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Back page local stories like this one are popping up all the nation. New Jersey fighting against sophisticated heroin distribution network - See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/specialreports/heroin_bergen_paterson_drugs_2013.html#sthash.JiMPRWKF.dpuf
This article explains how opium production is skyrocketing and UN is reporting false information. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91
Obviously governments are being complicit in the multi billion $ heroin trade, including our own. _
I think the bigger story here is that the media has been silent about what is happening.If it wasnt for the Seymour death we would have never heard a thing. They try to blame it in addiction to painkillers but obviously it is an issue of supply. Heroin is flooding the streets.
I always wondered why our media never mentioned the fact that Chavez turned Venezuela into the worlds biggest cocaine distributor. A Venezuelan military plane was caught in Paris with 2 tons of cocaine. It was never mentioned here. It can actually be explained by the fact that JP Morgan is openly laundering money for the Narcos in Caracas.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/jp-morgans-venezuelan-cronyism-reaches-a-boiling-point/?onswipe_redirect=no
Heroin comes from the Middle East and I can not believe that our government can spy on everyone around the world but doesn't see any of this going on.
Then we have major drug legalization push has with all things destructive we know it is associated with Soros. It didn't just happen by dumb luck once Obama was elected.
Sorry but I am all cried out for people who use drugs and die.
We all know the dangers and these people rolled the dice and took their chances.
I feel pity for the families they ruined but other than that, nothing.
Grow up Jason. Our government facilitates it and profits from it.
It’s very bad here in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan.’ Kids are dropping like flies.
Cheap and easy to get, now that The Law has cracked down on Oxy - which got them hooked in the first place.
Opiates are extrememly addictive. How do I know? Divorced a husband that was hooked and ruined us financially. A total waste of a perfectly fine man. Lost a nephew to heroin. Still not speaking to my stepson until he’s been clean and sober for five full years and EARNS his way back into my life. (He’s running a rehab house now and doing well, so time will tell. Don’t EVER trust a junkie.)
Yep. It sucks. And I’m your average, everyday, boring, middle-class ex-wife & ex-mom who actually paid attention - and this STILL happened to our family; blown to smithereens.
I’m not looking for sympathy. It is what it is. Just use my life as an example because this can happen to anyone that messes with this stuff. Even once.
I dealt with a daughter on meth for 8 years. She is fine now - three years, going to college, working full-time, same boyfriend for almost three years. Lots of prayers, tears, support. I feel for the families. A lot.
The investment in Afghanistan is paying off ...
More precisely, certain people associated with the government profit from it, and use their official power to facilitate it. I think that, if we got to the bottom of it, we would wind up erecting a whole bunch of gallows.
The writer of this story must be a child in grammar school, Or just PLAIN STUPID.
95% of the WORLD’S OPIUM is produced in AFGHANISTAN.
(for the public school graduates, Opium is the Main Ingredient in HEROIN).
The US MILITARY is and has been in complete control of the AFGHANISTAN BORDERS for YEARS NOW.
(for the Public School Graduates, The Military is THE US GOVERNMENT)
The recent spike in Heroin Use began Shortly After WE WENT TO AFGHANISTAN ( Try Googling it, you will see for yourself)
(for the Public School Graduates, Buy a Hooked on Phonics Game before attempting to Read and Comprehend anything written here or referred to.)
How do you suppose ALL THAT PRODUCT LEFT AFGHANISTAN FOR THE US right under the noses of our GOVERNMENT?????
Growing up in the 1970s, I was often bored as a kid. Just three or four channels on TV with rarely something good to watch (ABC's "Battle of the Network Stars" anyone?). Videotaped movies were still in the future. The local cinema just had the one or two movies at any given time (multiplex cinemas were not common yet). People had hi-fi stereos but an LP record cost $7.99 so you were stuck with your parents' Slim Whitman and Engelbert Humperdinck LPs. No video games unless you had a pocketful of quarters to go to the arcade with (and they were still mostly pinball machines).
Yes, life was boring for a teen during the 1970s. So sneaking out to the woods with a case of purloined beer (usually Black Label or Schlitz) and a bag of marijuana was somewhat understandable.
But in today's world, there is simply no time to get bored. In fact the real problem is that there are not nearly enough hours in the day to consume even a fraction of the massive amounts and forms of entertainment available to the average person today.
So why turn to drugs? That really confuses me.
article is dated 2/7/14.
I feel sorry for this lady and every body else that has been involved with trying to “CURE” a drug addict. One thing that drugs and drug addicts are good for; “DESTROYING THEIR LIVES, and every one else’s lives that they are involved with. I can tell you what the Singapore government did, when they were confronted with addicts, addicted to “OPIUM”. This was in 1964, Singapore just became a NEW COUNTRY, after being thrown out of the Malaysian group. The new government rented a hotel and put as many of the OPIUM ADDICTS in the hotel. They were supplied with all the opium they wanted. No food, no water, just opium. Within 6 months, there were no more addicts in the Island. Then they passed a law, making illegal drug sale and use a capital crime. Yep, the death penalty. As of today, any one in Singapore that wishes to get high, will put cow manure in a bag, and sniff it. It’s not illegal to sniff cow manure
It’s just another kind of entertainment. Drugs are fun, and they mix with other entertainment. Heck half the music industry is specifically designed to mix with certain drugs, psychedelic, stoner metal, reggae, country. Nobody sets out to get hooked, they set out to have fun, a different kind of fun than the “legit” entertainment industry. It takes months to rev up to daily use and usually months of that to actually get hooked. It all starts off as a simple diversion, just like going to a movie.
How civil of you. Perhaps ‘last week’ was being used as ‘the other day’. The message of the article remains the same.
Was it worth it to attack someone as a ‘moron’? or ‘idiot?
“Sorry but I am all cried out for people who use drugs and die.
We all know the dangers and these people rolled the dice and took their chances.
I feel pity for the families they ruined but other than that, nothing.”
-Excellent and worth repeating!
1) Legalize drugs
2) Subsidize 12-step programs
3) Peheat the crematoriums.
4) Give the addicts all the drugs they want.
One way or the other, the problem will take care of itself soon enough.
I do favor legalization of drugs, at the Federal level that is. The DEA must go; the controlled substances act is clearly unconstitutional and these decisions are best left to the states. The states can provide 50 different examples of drug policy, and the people of the states can decide which one or ones are the best. Secondly, the DEA is a weaponized, federal agency that could be used, at least by this regime, to attack political opponents aka domestic terrorists.
The days of conservatives reflexively supporting “law & order” policies are over. The Federal government has used the “war on drugs” to amass power and control the people.
I do favor legalization of drugs, at the Federal level that is. The DEA must go; the controlled substances act is clearly unconstitutional and these decisions are best left to the states. The states can provide 50 different examples of drug policy, and the people of the states can decide which one or ones are the best. Secondly, the DEA is a weaponized, federal agency that could be used, at least by this regime, to attack political opponents aka domestic terrorists.
The days of conservatives reflexively supporting “law & order” policies are over. The Federal government has used the “war on drugs” to amass power and control the people.
so very christian of you....
The faster they bottom out, the better chance they have of making the decision to stop.
Sympathy for them just enables them to postpone bottoming out.
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