Posted on 09/08/2019 11:17:31 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Melissa and Daryl McKinsey first heard about “Mexican Oxy” last year when their 19-year-old son Parker called in tears.
“I need to go to rehab,” he said.
Several months earlier, a friend had given Parker a baby-blue pill that was stamped on one side with the letter M.
It resembled a well-known brand of oxycodone, the prescription painkiller that sparked the American opioid epidemic.
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I’m sure it would help LE cut into the cartel’s US market if people were less liable to use drugs indiscriminately without knowing the consequences-when my cub was a kid, most parents we knew did what we did-made sure their kids knew all about what drugs can do to you-and taking a pill offered to you by anyone-friend or not-is no different than accepting a drink from some guy you don’t really know in a bar or a ride from a stranger-it was all stranger danger-still is, but I guess parents don’t think about that any more...
China has not forgotten.
> Who is holding a gun to their heads? <
The problem is that there is no perfect human being. You might have a moment of weakness once in your lifetime. Another person might have one once a week. The monsters who sell drugs wait for those moments.
As to the word “innocent” to describe addicts, I don’t think that’s the right word. You are responsible for your actions. However, describing them as “careless victims” might not be too far off.
“You’re right. Let’s give up. Let China and Mexico bring all of the Fentanyl they want into the USA”
No, we shouldn’t give up.
But we shouldn’t expect results through enforcement either.
A pound of Fentanyl is enough to kill 10,000 and enough to hook 100,000. How many ways are there to sneak in just one pound?
The key is to reduce demand. Through both education and penalty. Zero tolerance.
THEY ALREADY ARE!!! The DEA and every local PD has too much invested these price supports and smuggling to actually enforce the law! Cops need condos in Florida and bass boats too! The states are turning all the druggies loose, as a victimless crime. You can get Fentanyl in Stumpjump Iowa for $5 a tab. We're talking about your next door neighbor.
The Drug War is over. We LOST!
If you believe a government can stomp out recreational drugs you imply a government can stomp out civilian possession of guns.
Recreation drug “control” is doomed to failure.
Gun “control” is doomed to failure.
If you advocate drug “treatment” you imply drug experimentation isn’t likely to lead to lifelong addiction.
Addiction is based on body chemistry. It’s not something one can expect to beat often.
“education”
burial on junior high school grounds
Here lies Patty. She failed her final drug education exam.
Well written for a reporter, but a lot of the language is strange. No one is more plugged in than I am on this issue. I live in Intractable Pain and have for 30+ yrs. When CDC Director Robert Redfield declared war on Pain Patients because his 37 yr old son shot heroin ‘laced’ and that is the Correct word with Fentanyl and Ketamine in his veins and OD’d didn’t die, had charges pending in MD for drug possession, and Addiction Shrink Andrew Kolodny who owns Suboxone clinics along with the PROP committee. LIED out their butts about the number of OD’s.
Three months before we were Forced Tapered they hit our Veterans. Many have opted for suicide and many died of strokes and heart attacks. Same with civilian population. Easy to hide the Vets suicides as PSTD heart attacks as progression of their diseased. Civilian suicides are harder to hide. But the same goes for our strokes and heart attacks. I’ve had BP shoot up to 200/110. That is Heart range. Hospitals refuse to treat us, doctors to scared to write scripts now won’t stand up for us.
They purposefully muddled the language, calling both Illicit and Legal prescriptions Opioids, when Prescriptions were always called Narcotic Pain Meds. And doctors knew the dangers of OTC drugs. Tylenol is 10 days liver damage is high. Rest will thin the blood and cause ulcers. Toradol and Mobic are prescription only because they destroy GI tracts and thin blood.
Tough guys at the DEA are brave to toss a flash bang in an infant’s crib. They’ll never perform their ostensive duties. Their mission is tyranny. Who would be surprised to learn they are in league with China and Mexico?
1. All street opioids have fentanyl in them, or are 100% fentanyl.
2. Withdraw from fentanyl is far, far more difficult than any other opioid. That alone can kill you.
3. Fentanyl users are 10X more likely to OD and die than heroin users.
4. Don’t think you’ll be a hero when you’re dead. By this time everyone who ever knew you is glad you are gone. Some will spit on your grave, maybe your own daddy.
That’s a good lesson plan to start with. There’s more.
Demonize the hell out of the addicts.
NO they are not victims.
Yes, they are total losers and essentially without worth on the earth.
They are ugly, they are filthy and they are hated.
Everyone knows it's bad. They just don't care.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the feds have to babysit stupidity. 120 years ago, addicts were dumped in pauper's graves, and no one cared. Has being Woke improved things?
You want to stop it? Put a sandbagged bullet stopping wall up, out in the parking lot of every county court house, and use it, Saturday afternoons, for the instruction of adults and the amusement of the kiddies, until you run out of dealers. Lock anyone who gets a hot piss test in a 6x6x6 concrete box for 30 days. (Try to remember to feed them.)
My brother died a user. He's under a stone in the Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, in a pauper's grave. All out of empathy.
“Just ask them to have a list of next-of-kin on them, so we know who to charge for the burial.
Who is we?
Really? For drug addicts? What do you think about violent felons?
The Taxpayer we.
They get a/c, all the mod cons, 3 hots and a cot, free health care and cable, for the rest of their lives. Even if they get the death penalty, they have twenty years of coasting and whining to anyone who will listen about how unfair it is.
I know a guy who, when he's ready, has a richly deserving target picked out, and will relax inside, on the State's dime. He figures to work it so he'll die before the State gets around to killing him.
“As to the word “innocent” to describe addicts, I don’t think that’s the right word. You are responsible for your actions. However, describing them as “careless victims” might not be too far off.”
In other words, they are weak minded and unable to make rational decisions for themselves?
Makes me wonder if any of our esteem politicians are profiting from Drug Trafficking besides Child Trafficking.
“My brother died a user. He’s under a stone in the Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, in a pauper’s grave. All out of empathy.”
My family is similarly situated..
Why do you think your brother became a user/abuser and you did not?
Different circles of friends. None of mine used, all of his did. They would ditch school, and sit in a Denny's booth and chant "I can do anything I want..." and laugh.
The Old Man had his own life, and his own hobbies, and was content to make sure the two kids were housed and fed, and decently clothed. He figured his responsibility stopped there. Besides, he had two ex wives to support...
I learned, early on, that I was pretty much on my own. I was too much of a coward to try jail, so...
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