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.
And I don't buy this contention in the context I perceive that you mean it.
The primary role of the federal government is laid out clearly in the Constitution and is principally to protect us from foreign invasion, to ensure all states "have a republican form of government" and to ensure no state or official entity infringes upon enumerated rights.
Should the federal government protect us from alcoholism or trans fats or obesity in general? Should they protect us from violent movies...or the danger of firearms?
Perhaps they should protect us from do-goodeers eh?
Luckily my Aunt, a born again Christian, saved a number of their kids, mostly illegitimate.
Don’t you get it? Our politicians, media, and voting machines are corrupt. Soros has his fingerprints everywhere. Nothing is what it seems.
January 9, 2009 (LPAC)
Transnational Institute Calls For More and Better Opium in Asia
—Transnational Institute (TNI), a leading Soros outfit (with official funding from the EU, the Dutch Foreign Ministry and dozens of other “respectable organizations”), which is in the forefront of drug legalization and “harm reduction” promotion worldwide, released a doozy on Jan. 9: “Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle: A Drugs Market in Disarray,” which screams out to stop stopping drugs, to stop stopping the poor farmers from growing poppy, to stop denying high quality and low priced heroin to the poor users. The report demonstrates the absolute rage of Soros and the Anglo-Dutch drug bankers that they lost their precious “Golden Triangle” drug haven.
The TNI report says that the near-elimination of opium in Myanmar, Thailand and Laos - part of the “Golden Triangle” which once supplied the majority of the world’s opium - is responsible for “driving hundreds of thousands of families into poverty.... The rapid decline in production has caused major suffering among former poppy-growing communities in Burma and Laos” - as if the poppy producers were once prosperous. This reporter’s trip through the Triangle by mule in 1973 revealed the deadly, stone-age conditions of the opium farmers.
The report continues that “repressive drug control policies and criminalization of users has caused increased health risks amongst consumers,” requiring legalization and drug distribution to cure them of their ills.
TNI denounces the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for declaring the goal of a drug-free Asia by 2015, calling this “unrealistic and counter-productive,” arguing that “it would be wise not to enforce the 2015 deadline. It would be far better to take a longer-term perspective.”
What we need, says TNI, is better and cheaper dope: “Higher prices and lower quality heroin are leading to shifts in consumer behavior which create serious problems. While total numbers of opium and heroin users may be going down, more people have started to inject (the most cost-effective means of administration) and many have turned to a cocktail of pharmaceutical replacements with largely unknown health risks.”
Their conclusion: “Countries in the region and the international community should not abandon former and current opium growing communities and drugs users in this delicate phase of transformation of the Golden Triangle.”
I hijacked the thread to propose legalizing pot.
Sometimes prayer is all we’ve got.
Just this past week we had a rash of overdoses and 2 deaths, seems they got hold of the mixed with fentanyl? http://www.wtam.com/articles/wtam-local-news-122520/men-arrested-in-tainted-heroin-ods-12132224/
Last fall in November there were 6 DEATHS in one weekend.
Classical music is definitely an acquired taste but if you choose a well-known piece and give it time with repeated listenings, it will grow on you and you will quickly explore other pieces.
For me, it was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that brought me into classical music. I listened to that CD over and over again in the car and then it just hit me like a ton of bricks one rainy morning. Within a month, I had a car full of classical CDs. This was back in the early 1990s.
Drugs in most cases has little to do with boredom.
It has a lot to do with the self-administered treatment of a spiritual or mental breakage.
I actually agree with your plan.
Legalize, cheapen, then offer free rehab.
Those that want out, will get out. Those that don’t, will still get out.
Like they say in hospitals: “The bleeding WILL eventually stop.”
It really is inhumane to expose our children to this. I am a stay at home mother, have my children in the strictest Catholic schools in my area, my 18 year old will likely be leaving for Georgetown University next year. I can't begin to tell you how strict my husband is, and how unlikely it is that my children will get addicted. I am worried about the children who grew up like me. I went to public schools, was a latch key child, and maybe because I was the only kid from a traditional home, I was able to go on to better things. We didn't have heroine around in the 80's. We weren't exposed to even half of the sex and drugs the kids are exposed to on a daily basis today, and I grew up in Miami.
Prayers friends! 
A McDonald's employee in Pittsburgh was arrested Wednesday after undercover police officers said they discovered her selling heroin in Happy Meal boxes, according to a criminal complaint. Shantia Dennis, 26, was arrested after undercover law enforcement officials conducted a drug buy, according to a statement from Mike Manko, communications director for the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office.
Customers looking for heroin were instructed to go through the drive-through and say, "I'd like to order a toy." The customer would then be told to proceed to the first window, where they would be handed a Happy Meal box containing heroin, Manko said.
Weakness of character was behind Hoffman's addiction, the same as it was behind the heroin addiction of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle, a tolerant and spiritual guy, knew of what he wrote -- at a time when many otherwise good and upstanding Britishmen were closet opium addicts. That's not even mentioning the laudanum addicts, which included perfectly respectable ladies and gents, in America in the 1800s.
Drug addition is a spiritual malaise whose solution lies 90 percent with religion, and only 10 percent with government. But those who seek to use government, both right and left, confuse government's role with religion's role.
Telling the truth there, Brother FReeper. Amen.
Growing Heroin Epidemic, this is bad how? time to thin out the population. overdose is good /s
Not if you just have patience, compassion, rum your own life with Gods help..and a good dose of tough love. Then they.have no one to blame.
Mariner responds: And I don't buy this contention in the context I perceive that you mean it. The primary role of the federal government is laid out clearly in the Constitution and is principally to protect us from foreign invasion, to ensure all states "have a republican form of government" and to ensure no state or official entity infringes upon enumerated rights....
Look up the word "conserve," the root of the word "conservative."
The two primary definitions of "conserve" are 1) to protect from harm or decay, and 2) to use something sparingly.
mgist apparently defines his conservative philosophy under definition number one -- to use the Federal government to protect American society from harm or decay. That is "conservative" under definition #1.
Ironically, Democrats and socialists also seek to protect American society from what they see as harm or decay, and the Left views the civil, peaceful rejection of open homosexuality and the outlawing of abortion, to be harmful to American society. Otherwise, the Left is exactly like "conservatives" of the first definition in that they, too, want to use government to "protect from harm or decay."
Thousands of American conservatives, on the other hand, define their "conservative" philosophy by the second definition of "conserve" -- "to use something sparingly." When I call myself a "conservative," my meaning is that I advocate for politicians whose entire political philosophy is prioritized to using government sparingly. With alcohol/drugs and addiction, I advocate limiting government and giving the job helping people work through character weaknesses, BACK TO RELIGION WHERE IT BELONGS. God and Jesus, not the government, helped me overcome my own very destructive alcoholism.
That type of conservatism belongs to the right side of the political aisle alone. To apply "conservative" as code for "wants to use government force to promote Christian values" is a big mistake and I believe the single biggest obstacle to a united front to take down the Left.
It’s wonderful when anyone can get clean of meth.
My prayers to you and your family for continued success.
The “H” left Afgan. the same way it left Vietnam in the sixties!
The CIA has admitted trafficking heroin to raise money for its other endeavors. I guess the end justifies the means. (sacr).
Good grief! Your aunt sounds like a saint.
Charismatic Christian and a bit of a nut case but she saved four kids and brought them up so I will forgive the nut case.
Her daughter, my cousin, divorced, her husband, a RECON Marine, she was a BAM, because he wasn’t religious enough, his father was my Step Brothers Platoon Leader in Nam. 1/7 Marines. He was a CIA guy stationed in London.
Saved us all from being busted by The Georgetown police during a reunion for various reasons.
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