Posted on 12/06/2018 8:19:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I remember that british colonial days they got the ‘oriental subjects of the crown’ addicted to heroine, both for profit as well as for control (probably mostly for profit).
You can look inward at our social and moral ills and not be remiss, for an external supply side explanation, I wonder if it wouldn’t be bad to question if a little east/west karma isn’t taking place.
True that.
So you mean muslims who are not really muslims and do not follow the koran or hadith.
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“Muslims who reject the insane Jihadist cult”
Author knows too little about this subject to be writing articles on it.
The source of our “opoid epidemic” are doctors’ prescriptions. These create the addicts. The fentanyl smuggling supplies the addicts who can’t get enough from the system or who got cut off.
The increasingly Kafkaesque-nightmare nature of modern life provides many with enough incentive to choose to take that path.
Asserting cannabis to be an anesthetic is pretty absurd also, and these aren’t the only items of complete nonsense in this article. This should never have seen print if a responsible reputation-preserving editor was on hand.
The causes of the opioid epidemic are the the very same as the crack cocaine epidemic.
And both are the result of dumb people making poor decisions.
Dumb people making poor decisions is an eternal constant.
What is new is the mass pushing of highly addictive psychoactive substances onto tens of millions of people under the guise of medicine.
“The source of our “opoid epidemic” are doctors’ prescriptions.”
You may as well blame the pharmacists for filling them.
The real culprits are the people who allow themselves to get addicted. It’s a choice, not a disease. Countless people have used opioids without getting addicted. They chose not to abuse them.
During the Tobacco Wars, we were warned by liberals that quitting smoking was as difficult as quitting heroin. Well, I quit smoking and it wasn’t that hard. So there....
“What is new is the mass pushing of highly addictive psychoactive substances onto tens of millions of people under the guise of medicine.”
People need to make better choices, have some self-control, and not become addicted to drugs.
It’s all rather simple for those who are intelligent and emotionally well equipped.
Yes, every addict ever is a dumb person.
You’re a real genius...
Your last sentence was the whole point of the writer’s article!
“Yes, every addict ever is a dumb person.”
The decision to do drugs and the decision to become addicted are choices, and they are poor choices.
Dumb people make bad choices.
“The source of our “opoid epidemic” are doctors’ prescriptions. These create the addicts. The fentanyl smuggling supplies the addicts who can’t get enough from the system or who got cut off.”
Hmmm, while there may be some substance to this claim, this smells an awful like the progressive standard “it’s someone else’s fault” meme.
A good many folks I know were prescribed opiods following painful surgery and virtually none of them finished the prescription. When the pain subsided (not gone, just subsided), they quit the drug.
Those who continued CHOSE to do so. In these cases, the doctors do share some responsibility, but then again, do we have free will or not?
Great article. Lots of truth in there. He covers all the (escape from life abuses) like drugs, alcohol but you could throw in sexual perversions as well. Children are at greater and greater risk from the perverts. And I agree the root cause is the departure from God and Biblical standards.
Then there’s the ever rising suicide rate which is the ultimate escape.
His Twilight Zone reference was perfect.
Doctor prescriptions are of course part of it. But he’s going to just one level deeper and finding out why so many people turn to dope and want a prescription. I would add him one other thing, when the GOP and Clinton gave us NAFTA and looted jobs from this country, there were a large population of people sitting around losing their minds in poverty. That adds up to drugs. Also one cannot ignore the very large role our intelligence agencies have had in this.
When I took Sociology 1000, homosexuality was deviant behavior. The only thing that has changed is the text books.
As I occasionally point out, ours is a society that has degenerated to the point that many people’s concept of freedom raises little higher than someone’s crotch. The same people who will lust for government to control every nuance of life also demand that sex, or anything that helps there be more sex without consequences (like abortion), is entirely off of the table.
At the start of the Republic most everything was generally lawful except for what was forbidden — like homosexual acts or adultery generally were — but now everything is unlawful unless it is explicitly allowed/regulated/licensed ... except for sex, a glaring exception.
Indeed, before the Left became so loose with the term it sometimes seemed that, at least in Leftist rhetoric of the 70s (can’t speak about the 60s, I was a bit too young then), “fascist” included anyone who dared suggest people be morally upright.
I take it you’re more of a checkers player than a chess player.
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