Posted on 03/12/2014 2:20:50 PM PDT by mgist
"The DEA recently released some startling statistics in correlation to this nationally rising threat. From 2006 to 2010, the reported incidents of heroin related deaths have risen 45 percent. While reports haven’t been accumulated yet for the most recent years, DEA officials and nation wide police reports warn that the problem has already become substantially larger."
I’ve never met anyone who’s even tried heroin.
I am fortunate I guess, that I know of no one, family or friends or even acquaintances or any even whisper of anyone using heroin.
Pot though is another story. It is rampant here.
To be truthful I think oxy has.
My 20 Something son overdosed last year on that crap. We have spent thousands for him to get well & we drug test weekly. It’s been a tough year.
Us too unless they hide it very well.
Beloved?
He loved heroin, that's for sure.
I happened to watch Nobody's Fool (the Paul Newman version). PSH is in it. He wasn't particularly good, either.
I’ve only known one person who was rumored to use heroin.
I’ve done plenty of dumb things in my youth and been exposed to plenty but I drew a hard line at needles early on. I even turned someone down when they asked me to shoot them up with coke and that guy faded away shortly after that.
Most recent was a friend who said he was going to show me how to prepare and smoke crack. I saw him do it but had no use for it myself. He actually quit smoking crack and got himself back together.
Oxy is a real problem here too. Prayers for you and your son.
Thank you.
When I was a kid an adult cousin on my father’s side ODed on something, I’m not positive but I think it was a speedball (heroin plus cocaine). His brother found his corpse face down in the bathroom. The only time I’ve ever seen my father cry was at his wake.
It’s ruined the small town I grew up in. Every day there is some sort of crime or arrest that is tied to heroin. Oxy is too expensive and hard to get. Heroin (imo) is a bigger problem.
Actually heroin started rising in popularity in the mid-00s, something about freer and easier travel in and out of Afghanistan and meth’s popularity was winding down. There’s always going to some drug that’s the most popular.
“I’ve never met anyone who’s even tried heroin.”
Ditto!
Many prayers for your son. This Opium is no joke. The question is why and how has the DEA let this go on for so long. It has only recently made the news because of Hoffman. Our cities are inundated with very cheap, highly addictive, heroin.
These drugs are distributed from mainly from Venezuela and Mexico. There have been ZERO DEA heroin seizures from the border. They are letting it come in and local DEA and police are making busts.
CORRUPTION!!!!!
A former grade school classmate of mine got into the hard drugs (heroin was probably one of them). Had a party one night at his house while high. Pulled out a gun and shot his wife’s brains out in front of everyone. Went outside and shot out his (while his two young kids were sleeping in the bedroom). Ordinarily, he was a warm and friendly guy. Drugs made him insane.
Way before that.
Look up Nicky Barns and Frank Lucas. Together, they flood Harlem (and NYC) with so much smack that Harlem looked like a theme park for zombies.
It has directly impacted our family. It’s been hell for several years, but things are finally looking up. It’s becoming more and more predominant, unfortunately. Much easier to obtain and a lot cheaper than opiates.
That’s part of the cycle. But after their era we get the coke fueled late 70s and 80s, then coke morphs to crack in the late 80s and 90s, heroin had a quick resurgence in the mid-90s, but then meth hit big for late 90s into the 00s, and now has been replaced again by heroin.
There’s seizures all the time. But all they do is make the stuff that gets through more profitable. At one point in the cocaine cowboy days they estimated they were getting about 10% of the shipments bound for Miami, you know what happened? Number of shipments started dramatically increasing. The best way to beat the DEA is always volume, they can’t catch everything and the more there is out there the less everything they catch.
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