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.
The investment in Afghanistan is paying off ...
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.
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.
Part of me feels bad for heroin addicts, a bit. But I have this really nasty little schadenfreude thing going because if this generation gets mired in pot and heroin, MY drug-free kids will be the last ones standing, and they can take charge!!! Buahaahaa!!
“Am I my brothers keeper?”
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.
Growing Heroin Epidemic, this is bad how? time to thin out the population. overdose is good /s
“Epidemic”?
The Spanish Flu was an epidemic. Heroin? Not so much.
The “War on Drugs” is a monstrous racket, though.
Why was a Constitutional amendment needed to authorize the prohibition of alcohol, but none was needed to authorize the “War on Drugs”? Easy. Integrity in government has disappeared.