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Heroin Use In Suburbs On The Rise
ABC News ^

Posted on 10/19/2010 5:44:23 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: TigerClaws

The biggest new market for this heroin are people addicted to Oxycodone, an opiate pain reliever available in dozens of drugs by prescription.

Combunox, Endocet, Percocet, Percodan, Roxicodone, Oxycontin, Roxicet, Tylox, Dilaudid, Vicoprofen, Butrans, Actiq, MS-Contin, Opana, Exalgo, Palladone, etc.

They are similar to heroin, but heroin only costs half as much. Ironically, it is less likely they will be identified as a heroin user than as a prescription drug abuser.


21 posted on 10/19/2010 6:58:50 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Bingo. I work in a treatment facility and that is exactly what we are seeing. People get hooked on prescribed opiates and turn to heroin because it is way cheaper.


22 posted on 10/19/2010 7:35:05 PM PDT by Dr Snide
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To: reefdiver

The drug war is no joke either: millions of non-violent offenders rotting in jail (at our expense), shredding of the Constitution in a variety of ways, the militarization of police forces, turning them from Peace Officers into assault squads, the rise of asset forfeiture cases, which often directly benefit the LE agency doing the forfeitures, which sets up a conflict of interest, and tempting many police officers into corruption. Plus the epidemic of isolated incidents in which innocent people are murdered in their own beds because of wrong-address no-knock raids. Plus enriching the criminal elements who are willing to conduct the business, including Muslim terrorists. Plus a shooting war starting to simmer on our southern border. All this for billions and billions of dollars a year, and yet drugs are as common as they have ever been.

That’s no joke either.


23 posted on 10/19/2010 7:42:02 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: TigerClaws

Shoot it all in one go and die already, losers.


24 posted on 10/19/2010 8:25:05 PM PDT by j-damn
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Turns out that local law enforcement in my area are actually acting as mid-level drug dealers, ostensibly to fight the traffickers, but they get to use the profits to "self-fund" their SWAT and surveillance toys.

Ain't that just grand?

25 posted on 10/20/2010 7:17:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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