Look. He still has a little bit of embouchure left. Oh, man.
Posted on 03/12/2014 2:20:50 PM PDT by mgist
Heroin Has Impacted Every Home Added by Brandon Duringer on March 12, 2014. Saved under Brandon Duringer, Drugs and Alcohol, Health, Heroin, Opinion Tags: heroin In two weeks and a day, it will have been a year since Oliver Chase Peabody left this worsened world from an overdose of heroin. He was only 28 years old and yet, he had cultivated a whole life’s worth of infectious love for those fortunate to know him. Since his untimely passing, thousands of others have succumbed to the same tragic fate. Not long ago the DEA divulged that 3,038 people perished in 2010 due to the seductive and destructive drug, and the death toll is only accelerating. Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder declared heroin an “urgent public health crisis.” It is about time. With the infamous opiate making headlines more and more, and the statistics growing grimmer and bigger, chances are the heroin epidemic has adversely impacted someone every reader knows and invaded every home.
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.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy also publicized their own findings for 2010, claiming 1.5 million Americans were habitually using heroin that year. That means over a million parents, friends, relatives, and children, or someone everybody inevitably knows, has injected their veins and impacted their heath with the deceitful drug. Potentially every seemingly impermeable home has been impacted in some detrimental way by heroin. And the sobering figure is apparently only growing.
With the recent death of beloved actor Philip Seymour Hoffman acting as the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back, it seems the public is now prepared to shed some light on this cruel and pervasive dark shadow. Attorney General Holder has urged all police precincts to train and administer Naloxone, a drug that has saved 10,000 people since 2001 by counteracting the life-threatening depression of the nervous system, which causes victims to stop breathing. 17 states and DC have currently revised statewide access to the invaluable drug, making it available to more agencies in need. With more desperately needed awareness of heroin’s corrupting power comes more preparation and prevention, and it could not come at a better time.
While agencies report exponential rises in heroin overdoses in northern Texas, northern Ohio, and Indianapolis to name a few, it seems the appropriate and obligatory time to identify this diabolical enemy and arm the nation to its inherent danger. Start with the source. The most common gateway drug for a heroin junkie, according to the DEA, is oxycodone.
It is no surprise that oxycodone and similar opioid pharmaceutical-related incidents are simultaneously on the rising trend with heroin. Many chronic users graduate to the needle from the synthetic prescription pill. To strike heroin at its wretched heart would require striking its domesticated prescribed form as well. This is not an easy undertaking, given that oxycodone and its many minions killed 16,600 people of their own in 2010.
With harrowing death tolls climbing higher and creeping disturbingly closer to home, it will only prove increasingly more arduous to overtake this nation wide affliction. The DEA is making admirable strides along the Mexican border, where most of the drug is deviously delivered from, but FDA policy and the White House will certainly have to lend a legislative hand as well. In the end, the ultimate choice is with the user, whose life rests delicately in his or her hands. The education and shared experiences that lost soul possesses could mean making the choice that saves a life.
Oliver Peabody, AKA Oli, made the quintessentially wrong choice last year, as millions have, and not a day goes by that those he left behind do not mourn his actions for him in his anguished absence. In the naive blink of an eye he was gone forever, but hopefully not in vain. The issue is no longer contained to the gutters and alleyways of everyday discussion; it has infiltrated virtually every unsuspecting neighborhood. Before this societal disease infests Americana past the point of recovery, it must be suffocated and snuffed out, otherwise before long, every home will have a sad story as result of being impacted by the nations newest epidemic: heroin.
Sorry but the writer missed the mark. Nothing in this house.
It certainly impacted mine. Everyone here (except me) is now bummed because the next installment of Hunger Games is all messed up.
Idiotic. It hasn’t impacted my home, nor is it likely to. But God is honored in my home, and my children don’t long for drugs to numb their world.
I read your story and think to myself,let’s shoot all drug dealers.
This is Chet in 1959, pre-heroin:
This is him before his death in 1988:
Wow, man. Horrifying. Wow.
When they say it has impacted every home it doesn’t just mean your kids are junkies.
I believe it has impacted every home because I know Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, and narco organizations funded Chavez campaign. Chavez turned Venezuela into the world’s biggest drug dealer using military planes and personnel to deliver drugs internationally in tones.
How Venezuela’s Military Tried to Fly A Ton of Cocaine to France (2013)
http://m.insightcrime.org/pages/article/4792
Obama had the same campaign ads Chavez, Obama also has covert ties to Muslim Brotherhood, and was funded by Soros, who launders money for these international gangsters.
Venezuela fell off the map when Obama was elected, strategic Latin American countries (drug routes) turned left, drug became legal, and now highly addictive deadly heroin is everywhere.
If Manchurian candidate Obama hasn’t effected your household, I’m glad. He hasn’t done major damage to mine either, but I am afraid for my country. We are living under great deception, so I want to get the truth out. In the end, we know who wins this war.
Look. He still has a little bit of embouchure left. Oh, man.
Phenomenal talent. What a waste.
Drugs are getting into the country in large quantities. That is why the supply of highly addictive dangerous heroin is so cheap.
Why aren’t drugs being seized before coming into the country making the news anymore? There are NO reports of heroin shipments being seized before entering the country.
The rest of the world has plenty. I promise you government/Holder is complicit. He has ordered border agents to leave if people crossing the border throw rocks. What about drug sniffing dogs?
http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1940/border_patrol_halts_lethal_force_against_rock_throwers/
Eric Holder has just this week admitted there is a problem, and wants to solve it by providing overdose medication. He is in charge of the DEA, thats ridiculous!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/naloxone-overdoses_n_4915195.html
The only time I ever heard of it was over 60 years ago in high school when the blacks from Rodger Young Village, Grifith Park California, were using and selling it.
I agree, the people who gave my son Oxy were other kids from the neighborhood. He thought he was self-medicating for anxiety and darn near killed himself.
I just looked under the beds. Nope, none here either.
Me, either. I don't travel in those social circles. Thank goodness.
The “War on Drugs” hasn’t worked. The drugs being used previously simply had a lower rate of inducing death or lethal results. Cocaine in the 80’s, for example, or meth in the 90’s.
Opiates have gone in and out of fashion over about a 4 decade cycle. They were highly fashionable in the 70’s, and kids and rock stars were dropping like flies back then. Then coke became the hip drug of choice, and so on.
Well, we’ve just about run the course on the stimulants like coke and meth, so now we’re back to the opiates again.
Morphine was a fashionable drug in the period between WWI and WWII in the US and Europe. It became much cheaper after about 1930 due to new methods of being made from precursors.
The war on drugs has discredited itself. It needs no outside help. The number of people who have been killed by law enforcement during “no knock” searches of houses based on nothing more than the “evidence” presented by a doper who wants to get a break from law enforcement has reached absurd levels. We’re talking about completely innocent people getting gunned down by SWAT teams based on nothing more than the word of some dope peddler or dope user.
It’s long past time to end the “war on drugs” and restore people’s Fourth Amendment rights. As far as I’m concerned, if dopers die from using drugs, that’s their issue - they brought that end on themselves. Getting people who aren’t dopers killed on the word of dopers to law enforcement? I have a big problem with that.
I seem to be, as usual, about 45 years behind the times, just getting interested now in vaping marijuana (WA State).
Well, no one has ever admitted to me they’ve tried cocaine, meth, abused prescription opiates, or mescaline or heroin or others. But I suspect some have. One FReeper did admit she’d used LSD way back.
It is about supply and demand. There is a large supply of very addictive, pure, cheap heroin, all over the country.
Government studies show a clear correlation between availabilty and abuse. The war on drugs “failure” was a Soros campaign that obviously people like you fall for.
Government studies supply and demand. This is an issue of supply and demand. https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/policy/99ndcs/iv-g.html
Of course government “studies” would show that. They want to keep their war on drugs alive and going. They’ve got a huge investment in the DEA, all manner of law enforcement agencies, toys, electronic surveillance, you name it.
Oh, and need I mention asset forfeiture, where they can take private property that is “connected” to a drug bust without any court decision?
I never knew that history of Griffith Park. I have a zoo membership.
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