Posted on 10/27/2017 12:57:32 PM PDT by Wolfie
Edited on 10/27/2017 1:14:10 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
None of that provides a reason to not start killing heroin dealers AFAIC.
That’s actually a good idea. I wish I had thought of that.
I think the drug cartels of today have a particularly effective business model. Theirs is a ruthless multi-billion dollar industry aimed directly at the US market place. It can’t be ignored IMO. Ignoring it will not make it go away, it will make it much worse.
It doesn’t take money to tell big pharm, you will not commit genocide on the American people any longer.
I’m sure the politicians who rely heavily on big pharm donations will be asking ‘where’s the money’, too. Too bad for them. Party’s over.
Yes, courtesy of our southern border and our leftist jerks. We know a family whose young SIL is addicted because he is stupid. He's got a wife and two kids and he keeps going into rehab and starts again.
One day he came home from work at lunch time and frantically tore up the house while his MIL was watching the kids. Freaked her and the kids out big time. Needed a fix and was hoping he could find an old stash.
Meanwhile, people who need medication will be undergoing major monitoring. I know someone who had a major painful procedure. The doc said he could only give him one week of pills.
That is the biggest issue with drug problem. We have addiction without any discipline! Just keeping them alive with Narcan and then giving them some kind of assistance to so-called help them! That is the wrong avenue. There should be some kind of discipline that comes with it. Like make them work at controlled jobs that they can be monitored and tested when needed. Free money will not fix a thing!
Let’s start the drug testing with congress. All the ex-Goldman people in the admin will probably be coked up too.
Outback Steakhouse has a very effective business model too.I absolutely adore their products and I drive past the one near my house almost every day.But several doctors have given me warnings regarding my diet so I don't hit the turn signal as I approach.
I'm not suggesting that they be ignored.I'd just like to see us adopt Singapore's policy on drug dealers:mandatory death sentence.
The first time I saw that sign at the Immigration Desk at Singapore's Airport I almost soiled myself...and all I had on me were blood pressure meds.
I’m going to predict the net effect of these (well intended) gov’t actions will be to make it nearly impossible people in pain to get any kind of relief.
This is so exaggerated.
There were about 15,000 prescription opioid deaths last year. That's up from about 4,000 prescription opioid deaths in 1999.
About half of those deaths were suicides.
Most of the other deaths involved people who dangerously combined alcohol or other drugs with their prescription opioid.
Therapy can help only a limited percentage of people with suicidal tendencies.
And, there has never been a therapy for reckless or stupid behavior.
The only “solution” is legislative...
The consequence of this bogus “epidemic” is that people who have severe intractable pain will now need to fight a monthly war with their doctor to obtain prescriptions.
And the price of those drugs will dramatically increase because most drug makers are going to drop out of this legally dangerous business.
And, completely useless federally funded “pain clinics” will sprout like mushrooms.
Full Disclosure...
As a life long runner, I have exceptionally high pain tolerance.
But, I also have sincere empathy for those who do not have high pain tolerance.
I do not understand why they need to suffer because less than 1% of the population abuses prescription opioids.
There is simply no way that is true.
Good start, Congress critters and their staffers drug tested.
Some chronic back pain is severe and unrelenting when the person tries to function. They can only try to find the most comfortable position in bed and that is their life. Can't work, can't concentrate, can't do most of the things we do.
For those kinds of pain, the drugs don't even do much, other than to knock them out for a few hours. They would give anything if someone could "teach them to cope" with it.
I’m pretty aware of my personality so I’ve always been cautious with painkillers. I really like painkillers, and it could go really bad for me if I messed with them.
I did a count one day. I know 26 people who have either died, OD’ed, or been arrested due to involvement with heroin. Hey, I grew up in Appalachia. Some of these made sense. The majority do not. You don’t expect the kid raised by devout LDS parents to become an addict.
By the way, here is how people OD. You stop for a few weeks. You fall off the wagon. You take the same amount you took before you stopped. Your body has adjusted and now what you are taking is far too much.
I don’t see a link.
I’m not perfect enough to be a Freeper.
Not all drug addicts are kids and the kids that are don’t all have parents as you judgmentally describe.
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