I sense a HUGE gap in the sequence of events.
I've been prescribed painkillers following serious injuries and/or surgery) on at least ten different occasions, and I have NEVER snorted heroin (or otherwise ingested it).
And by the way, painkillers do not treat injuries - they temporarily mask the pain from injuries while the body heals. And if the body does not heal then there is something else wrong, and opioid painkillers are not the answer to whatever else is wrong.
This is terrifying to me as the father of teens here in NJ; this stuff is truly everywhere. Even if we can keep our kids clean, the crime that accompanies drug addiction (thefts and murders) may still take a toll.
didn’t read the whole article.
zero sympathy here.
Just don’t do it. If you start, just stop.
Addiction is a character flaw, nothing else.
And stop with the “ My brother was . . . My sister was .. .. “. If you care, help them stop. Can’t stop? G-d’s way of cleansing the planet.
We’ve been through this before. It’s a generational thing. Enough time passes and we forget.
Cocaine at the turn of the last-last century, barbituates in the 40’s and 50’s, heroin in bad old days of the 70’s, the “crack epidemic”.
Drug users, drunks, fat asses, most diabetics; you did it to yourself through bad personal choices.
Where was your caring family then??
Personally, I’m glad when Freepers post from Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, et al. We need to be well-informed. Lefties tend only to read from their side. I like that we read from all sides.
“”There have been over 400 overdoses this year in the county””
At some point the repeat overdosers need to be taken off the street and institutionalized.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!